After-Christmas Sale: Informal Learning

January 2, 2010

New Year’s Resolution: Use informal learning to improve organizational performance in 2010.
Informal Learning is on sale at Amazon for $18.18. (List price is $40.)

Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance

Read what it’s about:
Chapter Two, A Natural Way of Learning
Chapter Three, Show Me the Money

This book relates the stories of how more than [...]

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The End of the Industrial Training Era

January 2, 2010
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Hot informal sites in December 2009

December 29, 2009

Informal Learning Flow is back! It’s my one-stop-shop for keeping up with things that influence informal learning — and generally don’t show up on traditional learning sites.
Here are hot items from December 1, 2009 to December 27, 2009
Swimming in Data? Three Benefits of Visualization- HarvardBusiness.org, December 4, 2009
The Best and the Worst Tech of the [...]

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Favorite 2009 posts on Informal Learning Blog

December 29, 2009

Here are the most popular posts on the Informal Learning Blog in 2009.
Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning
To implement social/informal learning infrastructure projects, learning and development professionals need to shift their focus from learning to earning. The place to begin is by identifying a business objective that is vital to a corporate sponsor. MORE
New [...]

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Narrate your work

December 24, 2009

When you share your discoveries of how to do something, you enable others to follow in your footsteps.
At Online Educa we simulcast and recorded workshop sessions with both remote and F2F presenters. This is trickier than you might think.

Heike Philp, who figured things out, mastered the technology, and managed the sessions, has left us these [...]

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Allen Tough, informal learning pioneer

December 21, 2009

Allen Tough, a brief talk at the 3rd New Approaches to Lifelong Learning (NALL) Conference
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
February 19, 1999
For me, one of the fascinating things was it doesn’t seem to matter where you are or what group you study, you get a very similar picture of [...]

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Play within a play

December 20, 2009

Snapshot of Tweeps in #lrnchat simultaneously dancing in Second Life.

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What will change in 2010?

December 19, 2009

Innovations in computing used to trickle down from business and government to consumers. Mainframes evolved into personal computers. The space program put men on the moon and gave us Tang for breakfast. Now, innovation often goes the other way. Things start with consumers and are later adopted by corporations. Take blogs, for example.
Ten years ago, [...]

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An amazing camera & ideal Christmas gift

December 17, 2009

If you’re shopping for a Christmas gift in the $400 range, check out this camera, the Canon S90.

I’ve used lots of digital pocket cameras. None of them hold a candle to the S90. The photos are closer to what I used to get from my Canon A1 SLR.
The Canon S90 sports a very [...]

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Andy McAfee

December 15, 2009

MIT’s Andy McAfee tells the story of Newpedia, reluctance to adopt web 2.0, and why people don’t flock to better mousetraps on this video from McKinsey. Also, how to fail: impatience, paranoia, overly conservative CIOs, poor planning.
Andy’s Enterprise 2.0 is a great book, but at least half its message is carried in the video. Watch [...]

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