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Workshop on putting informal learning to work

October 21, 2009

I’d leading a half-day workshop on how to implement informal learning the day before Online Educa in Berlin.
For the main event, Charles Jennings and I are designing a two-day track titled Creating a New Era of Corporate Learning.
Online Educa has grown to become the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate and public service sectors [...]

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Power of informal learning in developing managers

October 20, 2009

Here’s a six-year old article on informal learning I discovered while Googling for material on learning transfer. If you’re still relying on formal training to develop managers, you might want to give this one a read.
Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency
Michael D. Enos, Marijke Thamm Kehrhahn, Alexandra Bell
HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT [...]

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Alltop

October 17, 2009

Alltop. Just click it.
It’s easy to roll your own.

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What’s a chief meta-learning officer to do?

October 3, 2009

Pondering where a chief learning officer can leverage results. This will be a major focus of Clark Quinn’s and my workshop in conjunction with DevLearn 09.

Come to DevLearn in San Jose the second week in November.

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October 2, 2009

Here are the top sites from Informal Learning Flow for September 2009.
Featured Sources
The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals.

The Awesomeness Manifesto- HarvardBusiness.org, September 16, 2009
An Operating System for the Mind- Half an Hour, September 19, 2009
RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized- [...]

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Blogging to show off your organization

October 2, 2009

Great article in the NY Times about student blogging at MIT. It helps prospective students get a feel for the place before applying.
Dozens of colleges — including Amherst, Bates, Carleton, Colby, Vassar, Wellesley and Yale — are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful marketing tool for high school students, [...]

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Corporations need to catch up on open content

September 17, 2009

The September 1 issue of Fast Company has a great article on How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education.
Is a college education really like a string quartet? Back in 1966, that was the assertion of economists William Bowen, later president of Princeton, and William Baumol. In a seminal study, Bowen and Baumol used the [...]

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Social Contagion

September 13, 2009

Is Happiness Catching?
By CLIVE THOMPSON
New York Times magazine
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND HAPPINESS
By Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler
Edge, The Third Culture
You’re going to be hearing a lot about social contagion in the coming months, for it’s a [...]

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lrnchat

September 3, 2009

Welcome
July 24, 2009 by Marcia Conner
#lrnchat is an online chat that happens every Thursday night 8:30-10pm EST / 5:30-7pm PST over the social messaging service Twitter. Participants are people interested in the topic of learning from one another and who want to discuss how to help other people learn.
Sounds crazy, eh? Dozens of people hop [...]

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August Informal Learning Hot List

August 28, 2009

Informal Learning takes place in the context of work and life. Learnscaping — taking a systems view of learning in an organization — necessarily addresses a broad array of topics and disciplines. Hence, the articles and posts from Informal Learning Flow aren’t confined to what you’ll find in training magazines and learning conferences.
August 1, 2009 [...]

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