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This time next month I will be in Sao Paolo. This will be my first trip to Brazil. I’m looking for innovative companies to work with on informal learning and innovation. Or well-heeled friends (sorry I neglected you until now). Or advice on what I can’t leave without doing.
Internet Time - Friday, July 4, 2008 - CommentsMap to the Internet Time Ecosystem
Time after time in my recent workshops on web-enabled informal learning, I found myself using my own sites as examples of learning technologies. For example, we’d walk through the Informal Learning blog to look at an RSS feed, an ... on my wiki have morphed into leave-behind reference material, for example, Learning in Business or Seminal Documents. The focus of my workshops is shifting, too. Two years ago, the focus was on how to apply social software for learning ... ;ve learned when they return to their organizations. When you’re getting ready to sell your boss on a new ...
Internet Time - Thursday, July 3, 2008 - CommentsLearning Professionals Leaders
Jarche in Skills 2.0:Today, active involvement in informal learning, particularly through web-based communities, is key ... On this month's Big Question - Lead the Charge - we are already seeing some interesting responses.The Learning ... interesting thoughts in the post, but alsoMost learning professionals can only do so much. There's a vacuum of leadership in the adoption of enterprise/web/learning 2.0 tools from learning professionals in senior positions and too many barriers put ... experiment somewhat difficult for the poor, lonely learning professional.I'm not sure I buy this. Is it okay for ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - CommentsLead the Charge?
... century, developing your own networks in parallel with your students. You need to demonstrate continual learning, lifelong learning ⬠for your students, or you will continue to teach your students how to be successful in an age that no longer exists.Back in March - we asked about the Scope of Learning Responsibility and received a lot of response. Most (if not all) respondents felt that we have fairly broad responsibilities that go beyond formal learning opportunities.So, if we have responsibility for informal learning, social learning, eLearning 2.0, long tail learning, etc. then ...Don't ...
Learning Circuits - Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 10 commentsDawn of the Un-book
... lives are in beta." So began my 2006 book, Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation ... from growing mountains of information is tougher than ever before. The walls between disciplines are falling ... self-directed learning for centuries. CLOs may not break out the cost of books in the budget, but they assuredly invest ... Virgil's Aeneid looks very similar to a page from The Social Life of Information printed 500 years later: rectangles of ... . Today's activist readers pluck information from the blogosphere and YouTube and their friends on Facebook and ...
Internet Time - Monday, June 30, 2008 - CommentsPut Learning on Your To Do List
... informal learning too? Please share what you do and how it works for you. I’m curious to hear other ideas. ... Image citation To do list from beth77’s photostream. One of my SMEs mentioned today how she wants to learn more ... recurring reminder on my to do list to set a goal for my own learning for the week. Having that reminder pop up every Monday ... . Even if I don’t meet the goal, I’m thinking about what I want to learn next and looking for opportunities ... setting aside the time each week. That conversation has me wondering: What do you do to make time for learning in ...
Experiencing eLearning - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - CommentsSocial Media...outside, inside, upside down
... learning theories (which, as we know, inform our instructional design), is built around the premise that social media is a ... better) of informal learning. Some interesting questions are posed , argued, and I ponder: is social media a product of ... way I see it (without a good nights sleep) is that if the circle of social media/informal learning is big enough the ... . And, as far as informal learning goes, I think there is still a huge need for the facilitator, the instructional ... ’s a lot of beef in the comments too. Is informal learning sufficient for cognitive development for all ...
Janet Clarey - Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - CommentsIABTI Conference
My colleagues and I recently submitted a paper/presentation for the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI) Conference. This was their annual training and technology conference. We presented on some of the training programs we are working on, and we also gave a primer on trends in the learning field.One of the more ... people who may not know about them instead of hyping ourselves up by continuing to brief ourselves in the learning community. I'm not saying that learning conferences are bad...far from it. It's just that sometimes we suffer from ...
Learning Design and Performance Improvement - Thursday, June 19, 2008 - CommentsE-learning: an oxymoron?
... write books, and I continue to develop training seminars, because I believe these media are best for deep learning of new concepts. We should accept that the Web is too fast-paced for big-picture learning. No problem; we have other media, and each has its strengths. At the same time, the Web is perfect for narrow, just-in-time learning of information nuggets ... instruction? live online learning using web conferencing software? collaborative distance learning? informal learning using web ... . Web. Under the sub-heading E-learning: an oxymoron? he writes: I continue to believe in the linear, ...
Clive on Learning - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - CommentsPerformance Improvement and ePerformance
... how Tony defines ePerformance in the Learning Circuits article as a combination of eDevelopment (i.e. performance reviews, development plans, informal learning, etc.), eInteration (i.e. 1-to-1 email, online communities, discussion threads ... Tony Karrer recently did a post on his blog regarding ePerformance. He also has a few good links to Learning Circuits articles on the topic, including this one that serves as a primer. This is a topic that I've written about several times on this blog, and I will continue to emphasize its importance on the community.I was asked the other day what the ...
Learning Design and Performance Improvement - Monday, June 9, 2008 - Comments10
... people learn to do fulfilling work and lead satisfying lives. I intended to challenge the conventional wisdom about how adults learn. Often networks are at the heart of it instead of classrooms. The net has been my benefactor and my connection to thousands of colleagues and friends. You helped me learn. You provoked me to explore eLearning. You anointed me the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. Now you’re goading me help organizations survive and prosper in the ... with my contention that â¬SCourses are dead.â¬ý People put down informal learning, saying it lacks rigor and ...
Internet Time - Sunday, June 8, 2008 - CommentsThree tiers in the content pyramid
2.0 tools for informal learning. Enter Nick Shackleton-Jones, Manager, Online & Informal Learning for the BBC. Nick's ... Back in December I posted about what I predicted would become e-learning's two tiers. To remind you: High end The top tier would be e-learning that delivers something special, something that can't be achieved easily other ways. This ... specialists. You would expect e-learning content at this higher level to include a degree of intelligence or ... , high end content is almost always going to be a top-down learning intervention, created at the initiative of ...
Clive on Learning - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsCo-creation
... about co-creation for more than five years, and I was hardly the first. Informal Learning ⬠the other 80% Thursday, May 08, 2003 “learning (co-creation of knowledge)” “If we look at learners positively, we see that their learning creates new knowledge. Learners can give more than they take by sharing what they learned and how they ... Communities of Practice informal learning reputation management expert locators corporate culture groupware social network ... there’s a real live teacher running the show. Last year, in an informal history of eLearning, I wrote: Learning ...
Internet Time - Friday, May 23, 2008 - CommentsBest of the Guild's Learning Solutions
I've been browsing the recent publication from the eLearning Guild - a compilation of the best articles from the Learning Solutions e-magazine from the past five years (Pfeiffer, 2008). Obviously I was pleased to see an article of mine in there on the ways that blended learning can be designed to bridge the gap from formal to informal learning, but you can ... no theme here - other than e-learning of course - so you jump from The XML e-Learning Revolution to High Attrition Rates in e-Learning: Challenges, Predictors and Solutions. There are plenty of interesting ideas in here to chew on, ...
Clive on Learning - Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - CommentsSocial Learning on Wikipedia
... it and join everyone on the ‘Learning 2.0′, ‘Informal Learning’ bandwagon?ÃÂ Personally, I ... Learning 3.29?ÃÂ And Informal Learning is too informal.ÃÂ I have also heard ‘Non-Formal’ and ‘ ... I have wanted to put an explanation of Social Learning on Wikipedia, but there is already one on there: Social Learning Theory by Albert Bandera.ÃÂ This states that we learn to behave by watching others’ behaviors.ÃÂ “If ... behavior themselves.” This is not quite the Social Learning we deal with.ÃÂ In fact, ours is closer to ...
Engaged Learning - Monday, May 5, 2008 - CommentsFCVW (Day 2)
... to help build a VW picture/strategy for organizations. Much of the information will be pushed to the FCVW wiki. The moderator (Paulette Robinson) discussed the four major areas of work being done in VW's to date:Information deliveryMeetingsSome training and educationAnalytical interactions (more recently) ...
Learning Design and Performance Improvement - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - Comments100 eLearning Articles and White Papers
... particular order to these.1. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. Keeping Up with the Pace of Change Informal learning will help employees survive in the future workplace 3. Understanding E-Learning 2.0 There are some very interesting changes going on in the world of e-learning that seem to have crept up on practitioners ... -learning Professional By Stephen Downes, National Research Council Canada 5. 2007 Training Industry Report Summary ... magazine edition. 6. Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? (EDUCAUSE Review) | ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 28, 2008 - CommentsFCVW (Day 1)
Continuous Learning, and Precision Learning). The USAF is also working on a concept called MyBase which is a virtual 3D portal (exploratory and interactive) for the purposes of recruiting, education, training, and operations. There were also a few good panel discussions with members from the private sector and government members. One interesting list from Curtis Conkey (NAWC) was on the difference between games and ...
Learning Design and Performance Improvement - Monday, April 28, 2008 - CommentsWeb 2.0, collective intelligence, and the future of learning
Yesterday in the “Blogtropolis” room at Web 2.0 Expo, Chris Heuer signaled me to take a seat in the director’s chair alongside his for a chat. Here’s a podcast of our chat. We spent twenty minutes talking about building on-line communities, enterprise 2.0, coping with mind-blowing change, the relationship with informal learning, un-meetings, redefining the meaning of conference, and what I plan to discuss with corporate clients in the next two months. The divide separating the old way of looking at the world and the new, networked vision is so wide that, like ...
Internet Time - Friday, April 25, 2008 - CommentsStrength of weak knowledge sources
... conceptual art, and advertising. I’m assembling the un-book sequel to Informal Learning. It’s nothing if not ... members of many different communities. In diversity, there are job leads. The same principle holds true for information. Go to ... learn lots; that’s who most of the conferences are for. Old hands may hear a few new terms, but breakthrough ... Radar When I come against an issue of, say, learning culture, I’d be more likely to get a fresh perspective ...
Internet Time - Monday, April 21, 2008 - CommentsDay 3 - Concluding thoughts
The Case study for Makrini told me a lot more about the game development process and the ideal relationship between SME and designer than any of the other sessions. Seeing it in practice is incredibly valuable.Got some interesting information about creating an infrastructure for informal learning. My one reaction - I wish they talked a little more about the human supports behind the running of the infrastructure.The Thursday keynote was my favorite - simply because I love seeing others creative processes. ------------------------------------------------Overall - an incredibly ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - CommentsCA Case Study - Informal Learning
Presentation: Informal Learning in a Corporate EnvironmentPresenters: Ronald Ateshian, CA, Bill Bruckley, Q2 ... toolsChanged development and delivery methodologies to support extended learning capabilitiesPresented corporate self service CA TV platformImplemented CA learning collaboration suiteQ2 Learning's xPert ecommunication, ecampus (this seems to be the wrap-around for all of this technology)The important piece is took blended learning strategies and tied all together.CA Learning collaboration- SCORM conformant (integrated with LMS) - remember, standardizing what ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - CommentsCA Case Study - Informal Learning
Presentation: Informal Learning in a Corporate EnvironmentPresenters: Ronald Ateshian, CA, Bill Bruckley, Q2 ... toolsChanged development and delivery methodologies to support extended learning capabilitiesPresented corporate self service CA TV platformImplemented CA learning collaboration suiteQ2 Learning's xPert ecommunication, ecampus (this seems to be the wrap-around for all of this technology)The important piece is took blended learning strategies and tied all together.CA Learning collaboration- SCORM conformant (integrated with LMS) - remember, standardizing what ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - CommentsCA Case Study - Informal Learning
Presentation: Informal Learning in a Corporate Environment Presenters: Ronald Ateshian, CA, Bill Bruckley, Q2 Learning Came in part-way through ----------------------- Implemented a corporate wide LMS to consilodate disparate systems ... virtual lab tools Changed development and delivery methodologies to support extended learning capabilities Presented corporate self service CA TV platform Implemented CA learning collaboration suite Q2 Learning's xPert ecommunication, ecampus (this seems to be the wrap-around for all of this technology) The important piece is took blended learning strategies ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - CommentsCA Case Study - Informal Learning
Presentation: Informal Learning in a Corporate Environment Presenters: Ronald Ateshian, CA, Bill Bruckley, Q2 Learning Came in part-way through ----------------------- Implemented a corporate wide LMS to consilodate disparate systems ... virtual lab tools Changed development and delivery methodologies to support extended learning capabilities Presented corporate self service CA TV platform Implemented CA learning collaboration suite Q2 Learning's xPert ecommunication, ecampus (this seems to be the wrap-around for all of this technology) The important piece is took blended learning strategies ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - CommentsCA Case Study - Informal Learning
Presentation: Informal Learning in a Corporate EnvironmentPresenters: Ronald Ateshian, CA, Bill Bruckley, Q2 ... toolsChanged development and delivery methodologies to support extended learning capabilitiesPresented corporate self service CA TV platformImplemented CA learning collaboration suiteQ2 Learning's xPert ecommunication, ecampus (this seems to be the wrap-around for all of this technology)The important piece is took blended learning strategies and tied all together.CA Learning collaboration- SCORM conformant (integrated with LMS) - remember, standardizing what ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - CommentsAG08 - Day 1 - Summary
... friends. Here are the sessions I attended: Positioning your Careers in Social Networking and Collaborative Learning (Ray Jimenez) Learning 2.0: Harnessing the Potential of Contextual Informal Learning (Janhavi Padture) Mobile Learning Today ... ) (Briefly attended) Storyboarding for e-Learning Video Production (Steve Haskin) Here a quick wrap-up of the various thoughts ... about this, but I get the feeling that the overall world of eLearning is shifting more toward learning and performance, with ... years, as people realize the value of social learning tools, such as wikis, tagging, social bookmarking, blogging, etc.
eLearning Weekly - Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - CommentsSocial Learning at Ebay
90% of eBays resources were on formal learning, but about 80% were happening informally. They were starting to feel ... they know. How can we enable everyone to share that information? Find pockets of excellence. People do not learn in ... employees, the have a list of ‘objects’ they need to learn about. SMEs can quickly update the information ... Begin with early adopters Identify informal learning opportunities Integrate Learning 2.0 ideas Model what they do in the informal settings in the formal learning settings. This is a great way to merge the two which has been VERY ...
Engaged Learning - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - CommentsInformal Learning 2.0 Update
Listen to this 8-minute update if you want to know about the Informal Learning 2.0 Fieldbook. Books are an increasingly obsolete medium. My book on informal learning froze my thoughts as it came off the presses, as if the world is not always changing. Publishers spend a year doing what other sectors do in a month. Hence, I’m assembling an un-book. Listen to the update. Join me if you are interested.
Internet Time - Monday, April 14, 2008 - CommentsPersonal spam or great research tool?
Since I’m immersed in conceptualizing the Informal Learning 2.0 Fieldbook, I asked my LinkedIn contacts, “Workers, profits, technology. Make up your own question for the sequel to Informal Learning.” Eight people have ... book that included e-learning? There are certainly many examples of media portrayal of education - Hairspray comes to ... for behavior. Given the prevalence of e-learning, it seems like it should be in the media. But even computers, which are ... any instances of where e-learning has been included or ideas for why it isn’t more often. Great question, ...
Internet Time - Monday, April 14, 2008 - Comments
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