4. “I thought I had made a sound
business case for investing more
in informal learning, but few
organisations changed their ways.
They continued to put almost all
of the training budgets into
schooling novices. They acted as
if the natural way of informal
learning didn’t exist. Or was
someone else’s responsibility.
They squandered the opportunity
to increase their effectiveness by
becoming networked learning
organizations.”
Jay Cross, 2012
5. “Adding social into formal learning is worthwhile,
but folks might get confused that doing so is also
informal learning, and it’s not.”
Clark Quinn
7. "Formal learning is like
riding a bus: the driver
decides where the bus
is going; the
passengers are along
for the ride.”
Jay Cross
8. “Informal learning is
like riding a bike: the
rider chooses the
destination, the speed,
and the route.“
Jay Cross
9. 1 Twitter
2 YouTube
3 Google Docs
4 Skype
5 WordPress
6 Dropbox
7 Prezi
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 8 Moodle
9 Slideshare
10 (Edu)Glogster
11 Wikipedia
12 Blogger
List compiled from the 13 Diigo
Top 10 Tools contributions of 14 Facebook
15 Google
531 16 Google Reader
learning professionals 17 Evernote
worldwide 18 Jing
19 PowerPoint
20 Gmail
10. To solve their learning
and performance
problems – quickly and
easily
11. To keep up to date with their industry
and profession
12. To build a trusted
network of friends and
colleagues – Personal
Learning or Knowledge
Network (PLN or PKN)
13. ask and answer questions
exchange ideas, resources
and experiences
brainstorm and solve
problems together
keep up to date with what
their colleagues are doing
and thinking
learning from one another
in many different ways –
sometimes without
realising it
14. To keep up to date with what is happening
inside their organisations
15. To share what they know and learn with their
colleagues
16. To reflect on what they are doing
and learning - and share their
thoughts and experiences
17. To use a variety of
resources,
social networks
and social tools
to learn continuously
and improve their
productivity and
performance
as they do their jobs
18. Characteristics of informal learning
PULL
variety of resources,
people and tools
unstructured
continuous
in the workflow
as part of working
often social
often serendipitous
self-organised
self-managed
performance driven
and (self-)evaluated
working smarter
highly autonomous
19. “Today already 47% of
business technology
users at North American
and European
companies report using
one or more website(s)
to do parts of their jobs
that are not sanctioned
by their IT department.
We expect this number
to grow to close to 60%
in 2011 as frustrated
workers work around IT
to self-provision
technology.”
Forrester Research,
April 2011 19
20. “between one-third
and two-thirds of
your employees are
meeting their needs
by working around
you”
Jensen & Klein,
“Hacking work”
Blind spots, CLO Magazine,
April 2011
21.
22. Workplace Learning?
Formal Learning Informal Learning
Informalize & Enable and Support
Socialize Informal &
Formal Learning Social Learning
Learning=Training Learning=Working
37. Social Technologies
include …
Member profiling
Activity stream
Real-time updates
Member commenting
Threaded discussions
Notifications
Sharing of resources
Content co-creation tools
Sharing links
Sharing files
Polls and surveys
Private messaging
User liking
Group spaces
49. Making the
most of
informal
learning
eLearning
Innovations
Symposium
GMU
June 2012
Slide links available at
Jane Hart
C4LPT.co.uk/iel12 C4LPT &
Internet Time
Alliance