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Advantages of Informal Learning for Organizations

LearnDash

For organizations interested in promoting employee growth, a mix of formal with informal education methods may be the key to success. Informal learning refers to the spontaneous, ad-hoc learning most of us engage in every day when we feed our curiosity or explore answers to questions provoked by our environment.

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Mentoring Results

Clark Quinn

However, this isn’t new for mentors as well: they want their charges to do well, but the most they can do is influence the performer to the best of their ability. As a component, learners need to develop their PKM/PLN (personal knowledge management, personal learning network).

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Bob Mosher on Informal Learning and Performance Support

Learning Visions

Informal Learning: Are We Missing a HUGE Opportunity? with Bob Mosher of Learning Guide Solutions, presented by Massachusetts Chapter of ISPI and sponsored by Kineo. When wanting to learn more --that’s the formal instruction part…but learners live below this line -- 3. When trying to remember and/or apply 4.

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Knowledge Management Core Issues

Tony Karrer

Great post by Denham Grey - Perennial KM issues that are very similar to the core problems that we deal with in eLearning: How to speed learning, increase awareness and share experiences. With an ever deceasing half-life of knowledge , just keeping up has become a major corporate imperative. practices ?

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Social learning in action at #elnil

Jane Hart

The topic was Making the most of informal learning. During the morning and the first part of the afternoon, we listened to 4 speakers with interesting informal learning stories to tell – and there was also a lively backchannel on Twitter to keep those outside the room up to speed with what was happening.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Leaders say how they will support learning and how they will recognize and reward those employees who continually acquire new knowledge and new skills. . Build trust - Employees will invest time and effort in learning if they trust their managers. This message is in the guiding principles of the business.

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Stop Trying to Formalize Informal Learning! by Stephanie Ivec

LearningGuild

Most people learn about their jobs informally, from colleagues and mentors, and by observing (or. Learn here about two key types of informal learning, and how a central. knowledge hub can encourage unofficial, unscheduled, and impromptu learning, while making it. more experienced employees.