How to Become an Industry Pro
B Online Learning
JUNE 5, 2014
How to build your online portfolio through community Tips & tricks on establishing your expertise. With the internet it seems anyone’s a pro. Why not you?
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Three Reasons Why Corporate Training Departments Could Become.
Dashe & Thomson
APRIL 26, 2011
Less than a decade ago, the technical aspects of eLearning development were the purview of a select group of developers, schooled in the art and science of HTML, Flash, Dreamweaver, and other relatively high-learning-curve disciplines. Today, dozens of rapid authoring tools have sprung up that require little to no technical expertise.
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Broad and Deep Instructional Design Skills
Experiencing eLearning
JUNE 23, 2020
Creating job aids or supporting informal learning could be a core task for instructional designers too. I would classify that as elearning development or media development instead. We need broad skills and understanding (the top of the T), with potentially one area of deep expertise (the vertical bar of the T).
5 Ways to Increase the Value of Your Customer Base | Social.
Dashe & Thomson
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
Make low-profit customers more profitable or terminate them – Many of our smaller clients require documentation or technical writing expertise but can’t afford to pay the typical industry rates. Needs change too, so frequent client follow-ups are a great way to hear of the new challenges keeping them up at night. Properly d.
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5 Ways to Increase the Value of Your Customer Base
Dashe & Thomson
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
Make low-profit customers more profitable or terminate them – Many of our smaller clients require documentation or technical writing expertise but can’t afford to pay the typical industry rates. Needs change too, so frequent client follow-ups are a great way to hear of the new challenges keeping them up at night. Properly d.
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Pick of the Month: June 2012 – Informal learning, Yammer, collab platforms, change, and keep learning
Jane Hart
JULY 1, 2012
1 – Informal Learning. Informal Learning continued to be a dominant theme through June. Clark Quinn, (6 June) started us off with a post: Getting pragmatic about informal. “The L&D group has to start facilitating the sharing of information between folks. Put on your crap detectors.
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Social Learning as Part of Your L&D Strategy
Dashe & Thomson
APRIL 15, 2021
Informal learning and training have been on the rise in organizations across the globe, and social learning has become an increasingly hot topic in L&D departments as more organizations look to leverage the expertise of their subject matter experts (SMEs).
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Getting Pragmatic About Informal
Clark Quinn
JUNE 5, 2012
In my post on reconciling informal and informal, I suggested that there are practical things L&D groups can do about informal learning. work social media into formal learning to make it easier to facilitate the segue into the workplace. provide performance support for social media.
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Measurement & ROI for Social & Network Learning
Experiencing eLearning
JUNE 18, 2009
Also need to think about opportunity cost–what are you giving up to spend time on social media? Compare to other alternatives (formal/informal learning). Ace–500% ROI in 6 months in increased sales from connecting dealers to share expertise. Posted in Informal Learning, Learning Communities.
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193 From Instructional Design to Enterprise Community Facilitation
ID Reflections
AUGUST 13, 2011
An instructional designer by profession who started her career anlayzing learner needs, creating micro-design documents, writing story-boards and discussing the nitty-gritty of course navigation with visual designers, I have long been interested in the power of social, collaborative and informal learning. Powered by enterprise2.0
10 Social Media Tools For Learning
The eLearning Coach
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
Do you have a training or information need that could benefit from a social media strategy? So here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. Elgg is an aggregate of many social media technologies in one platform. VoiceThread.
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Guest Post: 5 Effective Ways of Maximizing Mobile Tech In Learning Pursuits
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
They practically use it for eLearning by conducting online searches, visiting virtual libraries, streaming media contents, and purchasing ebooks. But mobile technology (m-tech) can also be maximized for information dissemination via cloud storages. Her other passions include playing tennis and social media, like Twitter and Google+.
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Instructional Design: Something Old, Something New
Allison Rossett
APRIL 21, 2012
He encourages instructional designers to relinquish control and cease reliance on “a process of extracting and interpreting information from the SME… ” Katzman continues, “The expertise is out in the field … In some cases the learner is the teacher, and teacher a learner.” ” Appealing?
Instructional Design: Something Old, Something New
Allison Rossett
APRIL 21, 2012
He encourages instructional designers to relinquish control and cease reliance on “a process of extracting and interpreting information from the SME… ” Katzman continues, “The expertise is out in the field … In some cases the learner is the teacher, and teacher a learner.” ” Appealing?
I Don’t Care What You Had For Lunch: Finding Professional Value in Twitter
Dashe & Thomson
JULY 4, 2011
Here at Dashe & Thomson, we made a New Year’s resolution for 2011 to dig a little deeper into social media and explore how to use it for social and informal learning, increasing website traffic, and building networks. Of course, Twitter was on the list of tools we were nudged to start using on a regular basis.
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How to Use LinkedIn Ads to Sell Online Courses
LearnDash
JUNE 6, 2024
Developing a social media presence and trying organic marketing tactics can help you grow your digital business. Many users on LinkedIn are searching for jobs or looking to grow and expand their skill set, which presents a unique opportunity to introduce your course and share your expertise. In addition, the platform is quite large.
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Social Learning: Key resources from January
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
. “In this article I want to turn to the ‘how’ of change and transformation in organisational learning and look at one specific approach that many organisations are finding useful to help them adapt to meet changing requirements and demands – the 70:20:10 framework. Who Stole The Tarts? ”
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ID Reflections
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
Communities of professionals collaborating and cooperating to learn together will be on the rise. Each member will bring their expertise to bear and share their knowledge and experiences. Learning will happen through conversations and participation. future_of_work L&D social learning Workplace Learning'
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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009
ID Reflections
AUGUST 1, 2010
Professionals are anyone who does work that cannot be standardized easily and who continuously welcomes challenges at the cutting edge of his or her expertise. David Wilkins in Learning 2.0 If the learning organization doesn’t get into that 70 percent and use social media, they’re going to get left behind.
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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning
DECEMBER 7, 2010
If you speak Dutch and you are interested you may order it here or here or buy the e-book Or follow En_nu_online on Twitter for your daily tip about learning through social media. For all others, it is a good reason to learn Dutch! Others probably don't as easily see the value of social media. can't find where!).
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A Case For Informal Learning
CLO Magazine
MARCH 19, 2013
Informal learning has answers to some of the most pressing educational challenges organizations face. But technology has amplified the informal learning taking place and provided unexpected answers to some of the most pressing educational challenges organizations face today. They look up ideas and micro-share on Twitter.
3 Benefits of MOOCs in the Workplace
ID Reflections
APRIL 6, 2014
Corporate MOOCs will be a pathway to social and informal learning into the workplace. Corporate MOOCs are likely to produce a breed of community managers who will be a cross between enterprise community managers and learning experience designers. Honestly, we don’t really know, and all of us are waiting to see the emergence.
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Curation: Making Sense of Digital Information
The Performance Improvement Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
We are inundated with email, tweets, blog posts, Linkedin updates and comments, Facebook news feeds and messages, rss feeds, in addition to old-tech media like newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio. They are professionals who have the expertise and credentials to do this kind of work. This is a universal dilemma of the 21 st century.
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Broad and Deep Instructional Design Skills
Experiencing eLearning
JULY 29, 2016
Creating job aids or supporting informal learning could be a core task for instructional designers too. I would classify that as elearning development or media development instead. We need broad skills and understanding (the top of the T), with potentially one area of deep expertise (the vertical bar of the T).
Reading List?
Clark Quinn
JULY 31, 2018
Maybe your level of expertise? 10 points from learning science about what works. Ericsson’s Peak , a book about what makes real expertise, with a focus on the nuances of deliberate practice. Patti Shank’s new Make it Learnable series gets into specifics on learning design. Comprehensive and yet accessible.
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CLO Magazine
MARCH 29, 2013
Informal learning has answers to some of the most pressing educational challenges organizations face. But technology has amplified the informal learning taking place and provided unexpected answers to some of the most pressing educational challenges organizations face today. They look up ideas and micro-share on Twitter.
The Changing Face of Work and Workplace Learning
Learnnovators
APRIL 14, 2015
Communities of professionals collaborating and cooperating to learn together will be on the rise. Each member will bring their expertise to bear and share their knowledge and experiences. Learning will happen through conversations and participation. Projects with specific purpose and outcome will draw individuals together.
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10 Informal Learning Examples
Ed App
APRIL 25, 2021
Informal learning is learning out of the curriculum and has no set structure. It gives control and flexibility to learners as information is consumed at their own pace and can happen anytime. . In the workplace, informal learning supports and reinforces the formal learning received by employees.
Pick of the Month: August 2012
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 1, 2012
“The study surveyed 300 professionals and found that by far the most frequent use of social media amongst professionals was interacting with their peers in professional communities . Far from a distraction, in other words, social media proves a surprising boon to productivity. High-skill workers can now be tapped company-wide.
Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does!
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
In other words those who think “social learning&# is just about a new training trend, or about adding social media into the &# blend&# , or that it is about acquiring the latest Social Learning Management System are missing the big picture. Any learning outside training is not of any significance of interest to us.
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February Informal Learning Hotlist
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MARCH 1, 2010
Best of Informal Learning Flow. 10 Ways to Build Social Media Expertise Using Personal Web Projects - HarvardBusiness.org , February 2, 2010. Intel’s Social Media Training - HarvardBusiness.org , February 3, 2010. Work Smart: Mastering Your Social Media Life - Fast Company , February 8, 2010.
Instructional Design in the VUCA World
ID Reflections
DECEMBER 6, 2014
If yes, think of including some offline activities like Lunch & Learns , Hangout Sessions , and so on to strengthen informal & peer-to-peer learning. Is expertise distributed? Some questions to ask could be: Are groups of users co-located? Have an Ask the Expert section.
An All-In-One Resource for All Things xAPI
eLearningMind
MARCH 2, 2023
This database, called a Learning Record Store (LRS), has been specifically designed to capture more granular data about each learning interaction than previous standards such as SCORM. Social media? Learning platforms? External learning websites such as Coursera, Khan Academy, Udacity, etc.?
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Vygotsky, Piaget and YouTube
Learning with e's
MARCH 7, 2014
Learning in particular is being democratised. Where once, experts had a monopoly on knowledge and expertise, now anyone it seems can access content that will teach them. Today, the bold claim is that anyone can learn anything they wish, because social media channels can provide that scaffolding. Unported License.
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35+ ID & Elearning Blogs
Experiencing eLearning
APRIL 7, 2016
CogDogBlog is about educational technology, social media, Creative Commons, and a number of other topics that author Alan Levine finds interesting. Dave’s Educational Blog by Dave Cormier often focuses on his theory of rhizomatic learning. This blog tends towards longer posts and more theoretical content.
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Ignoring Informal
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 14, 2009
Overall, there seems to be no awareness of the whole thrust of social and informal learning. Ok, so Jay’s book on Informal Learning is relatively new, and the concrete steps may still be being sorted out, but there’s a lot there. But these aren’t the biggest misses, to me.
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Selling Social Learning – Be a Jack
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
I was just reading a post - Top 5 tips to gain buy in for learning with social media. And the key in selling social learning / learning communities was the simple explanation of what they are in a value proposition.
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eLearning Learning Posts
AUGUST 19, 2009
Jane Bozarth: Better than Bullet Points - Learning Visions , August 11, 2009. Informal Learning 2.0 - Internet Time , August 7, 2009. Upside Learning Blog , August 7, 2009. 5 places to learn how to touch type - for free , August 14, 2009. Four C’s of digital media , August 13, 2009. Media (43).
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46 6 Benefits of Informal Learning
TalentLMS
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
Perhaps the highest level of learning with the deepest cognitive impact is informal learning. It’s what we call those precious learning moments where passion and curiosity meet to break all motivation and knowledge barriers. Let us explore informal and formal learning further to determine the pros and cons of each.
The top four new challenges for L&D
Learning Pool
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Finding new ways of presenting learning to ensure that it’s relevant and that it sticks has always been a feature of L&D. But developments in ICT and the rise of social media and other ways of sharing information online have made it hard for L&D to compete for attention. It’s designed to be learner-centered.
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Learning Visions
MAY 21, 2007
"The other possibility is that learning styles may change from month to month, or even week to week." I would also add that learning styles may change from topic to topic and level of expertise. Getting an Informal M.Ed
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LEARNNOVATORS GAZES INTO THE FUTURE OF E-LEARNING WITH SAHANA CHATTOPADHYAY
Learnnovators
AUGUST 19, 2015
She blogs at www.sahanac.com on topics related to the future of work, the shifting digital trends, and their deep impact on how we will work, learn and live in the future. Her writings and articles have been published in papers like The Business Standard, Inside Learning Technologies Magazine, U.K., Media Coordinator.
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Sahana Chattopadhyay – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators
Learnnovators
AUGUST 19, 2015
She blogs at www.sahanac.com on topics related to the future of work, the shifting digital trends, and their deep impact on how we will work, learn and live in the future. Her writings and articles have been published in papers like The Business Standard, Inside Learning Technologies Magazine, U.K., and others.
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7 Tips To Incorporate Informal Learning Into Your Corporate eLearning Strategy
eFront
JANUARY 24, 2017
Informal learning is impromptu. In this article, we’ll share 7 tips to use informal learning into your training strategy. How To Incorporate Informal Learning Into Your Corporate Training Strategy. How To Incorporate Informal Learning Into Your Corporate Training Strategy.
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