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I hadn’t planned on blogging about informal learning today, but an article in Irish e-zine Silicon Republic interested me, and I thought I’d bring it to you.

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Instructional design (ID) is a system of procedures for developing training programs in a consistent and reliable fashion.

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Today I’m going to consider the wider implications of the benefits of learning and professional development in the current global economic environment.

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I’m looking at some influences which are contributing to the emergence of informal and non-formal learning in the workplace. In my previous post on this topic, I outlined five change factors:

Blended learning
Talent management
Web / Learning 2.0
Knowledge centers
Immersive learning simulations (serious gaming).

I will discuss the first three of these today. [...]

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Many commentators, including Stern and Sommerlad (1999) assert that informal and non-formal learning
…have acquired visibility and saliency [because they] sit at the juncture of new thinking concerning the nature of learning about new forms of knowledge, about the transformation of the nature of work and about the modern enterprise in a globalized economy
(cited in [...]

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Looking specifically at learning in the workplace, Michael Eraut in Non-formal learning, implicit learning and tacit knowledge (2000) makes a clear distinction between his interpretation of the term ‘non-formal learning’ and what others including Scribner (1988), Conner (2002) and Cross (2003) would call ‘informal learning’ – what Eraut terms ‘incidental learning’ or

the acquisition of knowledge [...]

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According to Everett M. Rogers, people’s attitude toward a new technology is a key element in its diffusion. Roger’s Innovation Decision Process theory asserts that innovation diffusion is a process that occurs over time through five stages:

Awareness
Interest
Evaluation
Trial
Adoption

Awareness At this first phase in the diffusion process, individuals or [...]

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Today’s post concludes my short review of Kineo’s 80/20 approach to rapid learning content prioritization and development.Previously, I considered how the 80/20 Rule could be applied to e-learning, and suggested that Juran’s Axiom of “the vital few and the trivial many” meant that we could say 80 percent of learning results originate from 20 percent [...]

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Today’s post concludes my short review of Kineo’s 80/20 approach to rapid learning content prioritization and development.Previously, I considered how the 80/20 Rule could be applied to e-learning, and suggested that Juran’s Axiom of “the vital few and the trivial many” meant that we could say 80 percent of learning results originate from 20 percent [...]

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You’ll know if you’re a regular reader of The E-Learning Curve Blog that I have discussed the usage of the Pareto Principle (also known as the 80/20 Rule) in previous blog posts. Elsewhere in the e-learning blogosphere, Tony Karrer at the eLearning Technology blog has also discussed what he calls the “Corporate Learning Long Tail” [...]

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