Informal Learning Blog — from Jay Cross and Internet Time Group

Where Social Learning Thrives

February 12, 2010

Read this inspiring Fast Company blog post by Marcia Conner. She nails what I have been calling learnscaping.
Growing a culture of service is more like planting a garden than building a shed. A garden requires tending, whereas a shed is built once. A social learning culture requires design, training, guidance, leadership, monitoring and celebrating [...]

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A social interaction pattern language 2 of 2

February 8, 2010

Getting good at social interactions is vital for social learning.
We live in a social world. Every action taken that involves more than one person arises from conversation that generates, coordinates, and reflects those actions. At best, those group actions serve the well-being of the whole: not just the whole of a particular organization, but the [...]

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A social interaction pattern language 1 of 2

February 8, 2010

Pattern Language? A concept invented by Christopher Alexander, award-winning, renegade architect despised by most other architects, but wildly popular among designers and software authors.
Alexander used to live in my neighborhood. I wrote up a little presentation on his Pepto-Bismol colored house. Neighbors complained his house was so ugly it lowered the value of each house [...]

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Informal learning from the horse’s mouth

February 3, 2010

Every morning, my email is littered with very basic questions about informal learning. I’ve been ranting about informal and computer-supported learning in organizations for twelve years now. I’m the Johnny Appleseed of networked, social learning
I make 95% of my work available on the net at no charge. You can find it in blogs, presentations, articles, [...]

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Free Learning to Learn course going strong

February 1, 2010

Addictive Learning That Sticks

In a hurry? Enroll in the course here.
I announced this free course on Learning to Learn on this blog two days ago. Fifty people have enrolled. Most have completed their first three questions. 16% of the participants answered question 1 correctly and won’t see that one again. Only 8% answered question [...]

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Take this free, brief, online course on Learning to Learn

January 30, 2010

Addictive Learning That Sticks

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Learn by answering a few emailed questions every other day? SpacedEd co-founder and CEO Duncan Lennox says that is precisely what his product is doing for physicians. (SpacedEd was invented at Harvard Medical School.)

SpacedEd is a platform designed to allow learners and teachers to [...]

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January 2010 Informal Learning Hotlist

January 29, 2010

Top Informal Learning links for the first month of 2010.
Yesterday’s #lrnchat was on crowdsourcing. This is an example. The crowd picks this list, not I.

Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English- Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English -, January 6, 2010
A Few Thoughts on the Nexus One- OReilly Radar, January 5, 2010
Networking Reconsidered- HarvardBusiness.org, January 4, 2010
Tonight [...]

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