Harold Jarche

APRIL 11, 2019

One of the challenges we face in our professional and personal lives is making sense of the flow of information that passes by us each day and then aligning that with our current priorities and challenges. The image below shows how information and knowledge can flow when people develop filters to seek information, take time and effort to make sense of it, and then share appropriately, often adding value to what they share. Machine filters allow information to be pushed to us.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 13, 2012

Next month I’ll be offering an experiential workshop on Informal Learning through Jane Hart’s Social Learning Center. By the close of the workshop, you will be able to… understand what informal learning is, how it works, why it’s important. review models, cases, archetypes of successful informal learning. spot the fakes, e.g. “managing informal learning”. prepare a business case for that informal learning project. Informal Learning Just Jay

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Jay Cross

APRIL 7, 2015

Belarus has gotten the word about informal learning. Informal Learning If they can do it, you can do it! ?? ?????? ???? ??????, ?????? 10–15 % ????????????? ?????? ???????? ?? ?????????? ??????????, ? ?????????

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 13, 2014

Inthis new E-Learning Guild Survey Research Report,Informal Learning Takes Off, Iexamine the results of a survey about informal learning in the workplace. The results show that there are nowmany interpretations of the term informal learning – from non-traditional approaches to training to autonomous, unplanned individual and team learning. The main informal learning activities […].

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Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. I’ll be leading a series of master classes on informal learning and working smarter in Europe. Informal Learning – the other 80%. People learn to build the right network of associates and the right level of expertise through informal, sometimes even accidental, learning that flies beneath the corporate radar. Let’s look at what informal learning is and what to do to leverage it.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2013

People acquire the skills they use at work informally — talking, observing others, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the know. Order the Informal Learning book or read a summary or download the Informal Learning Poster. What is Informal Learning? Informal learning is the unofficial, unscheduled, impromptu way most people learn to do their jobs. Informal learning is like riding a bicycle: the rider chooses the destination and the route.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 26, 2014

We have an information explosion. I first heard about informal learning was at a conference in Orlando, Florida, a dozen years ago. The scientists discovered than over 80% of the way people learned their jobs was informal. Research in Canada, in Massachusetts, and a number of other places, usually with government funding, found generally 80% of the way people learn their jobs is informally. Informal Learning

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Jay Cross

MARCH 27, 2015

Informal Learning is available via Google Books. Informal Learning Just Jay Read a couple of chapters for free.

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Harold Jarche

JUNE 4, 2012

Informal learning is mostly Pull. They are also more in control of who Pushes to them, through social networks and other sources of online information. It’s not that informal learning support is better than anything instructional design can deliver, it’s really a question of time. Informal LearningTake a look at these 8 demand-side knowledge management principles by Nick Milton. People don’t pay attention to knowledge until they actually need it.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 2, 2013

Your organization has decided to tilt in the direction of informal learning. Masterclass for L&D managers, instructional designers, and senior instructors on the concept and implementation of informal learning. Retreat for CLOs, HR directors, planners, and policy makers on the philosophy of informal learning, the change management process required to support it, and the corporate culture that fosters its success. Introduction to informal learning.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Last Tuesday I delivered a workshop in Sao Paulo on informal learning to clients of fast-moving Brasilian learning company Affero. I’ll let the graphic recorders tell the story. Just Jay

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David Weinberger

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The ordinary language use of “information” in some ways is the opposite of the technical sense given the term by Claude Shannon — the sense that kicked off the Information Age. Shannon’s information is a measure of surprise: the more unexpected is the next letter a user lays down in Scrabble, the more information it conveys. ” The more surprising the news is, the more important the information is.

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Harold Jarche

JUNE 13, 2012

Studies show that informal learning accounts for between 70 and 95% of workplace learning [USBLS: 70%; Raybould: 95%; EDC: 70%; CapitalWorks: 75%; OISE: 70%; eLG: 70%; Allen Tough: 80%]. According to Gary, as much as 95% of workplace learning is informal. Informal LearningI was talking to a financial advisor at a bank the other day and I asked her what kind of professional development she did.

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Dave Snowden

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

One of the principles of managing a complex adaptive system is the need for fast feedback loops. In my second posting on narrative and conflict management I want to address that in the context of negotiation. Now while my mind is on national level conflict, the same principles apply to service negotiation at a company level without the nature of major changes in the process.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 24, 2012

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about informal learning, which ends up sounding like formal learning, and this can be confusing. Now, let’s move on to informal learning, as this is where, to me, we have a conflict. When they’re practitioners in the area, they’re much more likely to want the resources ‘to hand’: job aids, information, wizards, etc. The latter, resources and people, are to them informal learning.

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Harold Jarche

MARCH 15, 2011

This interconnected world sure makes it easy to learn informally though. From Twitter , I was led to an excellent overview of how the Fukushima Daiichi reactor works at Why I am not worried … which is now being hosted by MIT’s Nuclear Information Hub : The solid fuel pellet (a ceramic oxide matrix) is the first barrier that retains many of the radioactive fission products produced by the fission process. Informal Learning

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Jay Cross

JULY 8, 2013

If I had it to do over again, I wouldn’t call it Informal Learning. Synonyms for informal include breezy, colloquial, down home, folksy, improv, intimate, laidback, loose, low-pressure, natural, off-the-cuff, relaxed, spontaneous, sporty, throwaway, unceremonious, unconventional, unfussy, unofficial, unrestrained, urbane, without ceremony. Better I should have talked about Experiential Learning , for that’s the informal learning with the most impact.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

I fear that charlatans and dummies are taking informal learning down the same road. An Informal Learning Sequel? While it took six years to arrive, informal learning has become L&D’s flavor of the day. Numerous consultants are offering to help manage informal learning. (It You nurture informal learning; micro-managing chokes it off.). A brief quiz tells you whether your organization needs to adopt formal or informal approaches.

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Doc Searls

JANUARY 22, 2020

This policy outlines how we use your information. Among those are these: Information we collect automatically: Device information and identifiers such as IP address; browser type and language; operating system; platform type; device type; software and hardware attributes; and unique device, advertising, and app identifiers. See “ Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies ” below for more information about how we collect and use this information.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

This deck is my starting point when I’m asked to do a presentation about informal learning. about informal learning than you did on the way in. Informal Learning informal informal learning informlSome of these 350 slides are eight years old; most are less than 24 months. Flip through the slides. I guarantee you’ll end knowing more. On my Walkabout I am experimenting with openness. I’m going to be much more open.

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Harold Jarche

JANUARY 4, 2012

Tweet Informal learning is not better than formal training; there is just a whole lot more of it. Supporting informal learning at work is not as clear-cut as something like ISD. There are methods from knowledge management, organizational development and human performance technology, for example, that are quite useful in supporting informal learning. Today there is no agreed-upon informal learning design methodology. Informal Learning

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Euen Semple

AUGUST 22, 2011

Thought you might enjoy this paragraph from the chapter in my book exhorting people to resist tidying up their information: Finding the good stuff is one of the functions of bloggers. Information rag and bone men who curate the weak signal and the long tail. Why not apply this to information and knowledge? Pile more rubbish on the bits of the garden you want to grow and employ gardeners who tend and care for your baby shoots rather than disinfecting your information spaces

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 27, 2012

Need to get your arms around the essence of informal learning in business in a hurry? Try these ten: The Informal Learning Poster. What’s informal learning? (in Informal learning in a nutshell. Bringing Informal Learning Up To Date. Controversy over Informal Learning. Informal LearningZoom for detail. in under 3 minutes). Realtime learning in realtime business. The New Workplace. Change or Die. A Natural Way of Learning.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 24, 2013

Informal Learning1-800-GOT-JUNK (“Junk”) came by Internet Time Lab to pick up 24 months of trash. The two thirty-somethings who showed up were pleasant, hard-working, and efficient. One fellow liked his job because it fix his life as a musician. For seven years, he has worked at Junk six months and then taken off to play music for six months. “It works for me; it works for them.”

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

When the book on informal learning came out, nay-sayers attacked me as some kind of loony. QUESTION: How do you know that informal learning works? QUESTION: How can we assess the ROI of informal learning? QUESTION: How do you know learning on the job is 80% informal? The important thing is that informal learning is too important to overlook. QUESTION: Do you want a doctor or pilot who learned informally? Can informal learning do any worse?

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 5, 2012

In my post on reconciling informal and informal, I suggested that there are practical things L&D groups can do about informal learning. So, the L&D group has to start facilitating the sharing of information between folks. I’ve detected a fair bit of concern amongst L&D folks that this threatens their jobs, and I think that’s misplaced.

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George Siemens

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I’m in Rijeka, Croatia. It’s my first visit hear and it’s a beautiful country. The scenery is spectacular. Unfortunately, most of my time has been spent in a hotel room writing and getting caught up on email/work, etc. Wasn’t traveling fun *before* we could take our work with us?! I’ve uploaded the slides from my presentation this morning: Croatia: CARNET. View more presentations from gsiemens

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 1, 2010

I watched vendors hi-jack the term eLearning, and I don’t want to see it happen to social or informal learning. In additional to social learning , vendors are claiming to provide informal learning. Informal Learning in a Nutshell gives my definition of informal learning. They discover how to do their jobs through informal learning: talking, observing others, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the know. Related: The Informal Learning Page.

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Jane Hart

APRIL 9, 2014

I am working with the E-Learning Guild on a research project about the current state of informal learning in the workplace. What types of informal learning are going on inside your organization? Please share your insight by completing the Informal Learning in the Workplace survey. The results of this survey will be analyzed and shared [.]. Social learning

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David Weinberger

MARCH 5, 2016

Friend (CEO at that same outfit) write about a project in which users of a health monitoring app have given informed consent to have their data made available to other researchers. How to get informed consent via an app? The post Informed consent for human sensors appeared first on Joho the Blog In a post at Nature Biotechnology , John Wilbanks (Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks) and Stephen H.

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David Weinberger

JULY 5, 2012

As Paul Edwards explains in his wonderful The Closed World , information theory grew in part out of work done during WWII to develop a vocabulary of words sufficiently distinctive that they could be differentiated over the uproar of battle. The demand for discernible difference (= information) has led us to to see language as code, to denature qualities, and to count that which gets in the way of clarity as noise. “You can ring me here tonight from Finland.

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George Siemens

MAY 30, 2011

What can we do now with information that we could not do in the past? In this case, the “something new&# is the ways in which new tools allow us to mess around with information. What can we do with information that I’ve overlooked? Create information and easily. information. Pull together information from. Augmented reality, information. integrated with other information sources. Information splicing.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 16, 2013

Why isn’t L&D supporting informal learning? Informal learning is important. In the current issue of Chief Learning Officer , IDG’s Cushing Anderson reports that these CLOs think “informal learning deserves more attention because it reflects the real world outside the classroom and knowledge that is more applicable to tasks.” (It’s The CLOs reported “…there is little knowledge about how exactly to support informal learning.”. Informal Learning

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George Siemens

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

But coherence is a personal thing – it’s about how *we* connect information elements and how we use artifacts and narratives to share that coherence. The information foraging model is one approach to consider – as detailed in this presentation: Information Foraging If educators want to move away from broadcast models of teaching, the obvious questions arises “how are we supposed to teach and how will students learn?&#.

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Jane Hart

APRIL 27, 2012

Jay Cross, the author of the 2007 seminal book, Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance , recently wrote a blog post in which he explained that although there has been a lot of talk about “informal learning” in the last five years, there has been very little action. He writes: “I thought I had made a sound business case for investing more in informal learning, but few organizations changed their ways.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 12, 2013

Two weeks ago, I led a half-day masterclass on informal learning and 70:20:10 for staff and customers of the Dutch high-tech consultancy Ordina. That’s the basis for informal learning — trusting people to do the right thing, to go after it for themselves and take responsibility. Informal learning in a nutshell is giving control to the learner and setting up an environment that encourages experimentation and discovery.”

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The Entreprise Collaborative has a new question , asking whether we can formalize informal learning. To me, it’s not about formalizing informal learning so much as explicitly supporting it versus ignoring it. Like the proverbial ’stuff’, informal learning happens. To me, it is more a matter of providing infrastructure to support informal learning, and facilitating informal learning as well. Are you formalizing informal learning?

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Jay Cross

JUNE 24, 2012

Informal LearningFirst come, first served. Workshop announcement and pre-registration are here.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JANUARY 26, 2012

Given this intangible character of money, it is not surprising that major advances in information technologies have in turn led to major advances in the way we deal with money and payments. Money is continuing its centuries old transformation from being embodied in objects with intrinsic value, like gold and silver, to being nothing more than information in the digital wallets of our mobile devices as well as in our digital accounts someplace out there in the cloud.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

Six years ago I wrote Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance. This is the first in a series of posts about what informal learning is and how to put it into practice. Synopsis of Informal Learning. The book made the case that most learning about how to do a job is informal. An organization that fails to address informal learning leaves a tremendous amount of learning to chance. Formal and informal learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 3, 2010

Many vendors claim to offer informal learning, or even “informal learning management&# without having changed anything beyond the words in their advertising. Informal Learning: Five Ways to Do More with Less. We’ll be going right back to the basics: • What is Informal Learning? Assess when and where Informal Learning is appropriate. • Compelling reasons to invest in Informal Learning. Examples on how to apply Informal Learning.

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David Weinberger

AUGUST 2, 2015

Omitting key information. For most of its history, library info science discourse has focused on what was “useful knowledge” in the 19th century, “best books” in the 20th century, or what we now call “information.” “To categorize these activities as information gathering fails to appreciate the richness” of the meaning of the library for these places.

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Dave Snowden

MARCH 6, 2010

I was part of a small but select group discussing the information ecology of crisis management. There was a general recognition that the old style information centric knowledge management approach would not work (although many government agencies are going down that path). An interesting day yesterday in New York.

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