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Understanding "learning" - some more thoughts
My colleagues at the Internet Time Alliance have been thinking a lot about what "learning" and being a "learner" means.  This has been part of the ongoing discussion we have been having about the hijacking of terms like informal and social learning by "snake oil sellers". Jay Cross has become well known for helping organisations understand that learning is either formal or informal .  In my Social Learning Handbook I identified 5 categories of learning : Formal Structured Learning , Personal Directed Learning , Group Directed Learning , Intra-Organisational Learning and Accidental & Serendiptous Learning .
Jane Hart - Pick of the Day - Thursday, March 4, 2010
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Informal Snake Oil
“As soon as the software vendors and marketers get hold of a good idea, they pretty well destroy it,” writes my colleague Harold Jarche in his post on Social Snake Oil . (That’s That’s his graphic above.) Jane Hart chimed in, reinforcing Harold’s point that “social learning is being picked up by software vendors and marketers as the next solution-in-a-box, when it’s more of an approach and a cultural mind-set”. I watched vendors hi-jack the term eLearning, and I don’t want to see it happen to social or informal learning.
Informal Learning - Monday, March 1, 2010
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A framework for social learning in the enterprise
framework for social learning in the enterprise The social learning revolution has only just begun. Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards. - Social learning Cross-posted at InternetTimeAlliance.com A
Learning and Working on the Web - Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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  • netWorked Learning:connecting formal learning to the world
    This morning at the ungodly hour of 4:30 am PDT (GMT -7) I shared some of my ideas about connecting the formal learning in universities to the wider, networked world to a group of learning professionals at Tartu University, in Estonia. This was part of School - From Teaching Institution to Learning Space which took place April 02 - 03, 2009 at the Estonian University of Life Sciences conference centre (Kreutzwaldi 1A, Tartu), Estonia.  During the conference you could watch the conference online http://video.ut.ee . First, there is always the challenge of plopping
    Full Circle - Friday, April 3, 2009
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  • The 7 c’s of natural learning
    referred to supporting the activities that we find in natural learning, for both formal and informal learning.  In thinking about it (and borrowing heavily from some slides by Jay Cross ), I discerned (read: worked hard to fit :) 7 C’s of learning that characterize how we learn before schooling extinguishes the love of learning: Crash : our commitment means we make mistakes, and learn from them. Yesterday I talked about the seeding, feeding, and weeding necessary to develop a self-sustaining network. I
    Learnlets - Friday, September 18, 2009
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  • LMS and Social Learning
    As a follow on to the discussion of social learning and formal learning in Long Live … great post by BJ Schone - Have LMSs Jumped The Shark? I constantly hear people (across many organizations) complain about their learning management system (LMS). Did I miss anything?) We’ve recently seen LMSs shift to include more functionality, such as wikis, blogs, social networking, etc. They complain that their LMS has a terrible interface that is nearly unusable. Upgrades are difficult and cumbersome.
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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  • Seed, feed, & weed
    In my presentation yesterday, I was talking about how to get informal learning going.  Overall, it taps into our natural learning, where we experiment, reflect, converse, mimic, collaborate, and more.  Our approach to formal learning needs to more naturally mimic this approach, having us attempting to do something, and resourcing around it with information and facilitation.  As many have noted, it’s about moving from a notion of being a builder, handcrafting (or mass-producing) solutions, to being a facilitator, nurturing the community to develop it’s own capabilities. 
    Learnlets - Thursday, September 17, 2009
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  • Social Networks
    for Learning Professionals is wrapping up. This week we looked at Social Networks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around social networks for learning. Starting with Social Networking was a blessing and a curse. The first week of our Free - Web 2.0 Social networks have a tendency to be a bit messy.
    eLearning Technology - Saturday, October 4, 2008
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  • Social learning in the enterprise
    This past year, my Internet Time Alliance colleague Jane Hart changed her title to Social Learning Consultant . Whereas early e-learning was all about delivering content, primarily in the form of online courses, produced by experts and managed via learning management systems, Social Learning is about creating and sharing information and knowledge with other people using (often free) social media tools that support a collaborative approach to learning. Why? Social Learning is fast becoming recognised as a valuable way of
    Learning and Working on the Web - Sunday, January 3, 2010
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  • Collective intelligence patterns
    social networking can facilitate work, to actually analyze and distill some underlying principles. The implications for informal learning are obvious, I’ll have to think more about formal learning.  I had the good fortune to get to meet Tom Malone way back when he was working on what makes computer games fun (cited in my book ).  I stopped by PARC (then the geek’s Mecca), and got to bask in the environment that produced the GUI on top of Doug Engelbart’s mouse.
    Learnlets - Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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  • Future of the training department
    In short, we have to move away from depending on formal learning to be able to cope, and we need a new solution. This is a redefinition of learning as performance, incorporating problem-solving, innovation, creativity, design, research, and more. And they certainly should be on board; ideally you don’t want a hodgepodge of different systems to do the same thing, you want a coordinated environment that supports lessons learned in one area Entreprise Collaborative , a cross-cultural endeavor bridging English and French to provide a jumping off point on organizational collective intelligence (and co-led by my Internet Time Alliance colleague Harold Jarche ), is launching a blog carnival. 
    Learnlets - Saturday, December 12, 2009
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  • Communities and Networks Connection Hotlists
    The following are the top posts in March from featured sources based on social signals, with a few annotations from posts that I found useful.  Social Media ROI: Measuring the unmeasurable? - FreshNetworks , March 22, 2009 CoP Series #6: Community Leadership in Learning - Full Circle , March 10, 2009 Now that we are a couple of months into the “signal sharing” of the Communities and Networks Connection , I wanted to share the top posts people have clicked into on the site (courtesy of the magic of Tony Karrer ).  I find that sometimes I am paying attention
    Full Circle - Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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  • Is it all problem-solving?
    I’ve been arguing for a while that we need to take a broader picture of learning, that the responsibility of learning units in the organization should be ensuring adequate infrastructure, skills, and culture for innovation, creativity, design, research, collaboration, etc, not just formal learning. But this very much means that first, all our formal solutions (courses, job aids, etc) should be organized around problem-solving (which is another way of saying that we need the objectives to be organized around doing). As I look at those different components, however, I wonder if there’s an overarching, integrating viewpoint.
    Learnlets - Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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