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E-learning Curve Blog is Michael Hanley's elearning blog about skills, knowledge, and organizational development using web-based training and technology in education

Informal Workplace Learning: paradigm changes – more

April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

The tender shoots of non-formal learning will inevitably be destroyed by the weeds of empire building.

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Tags: e-learning · informal learning · non-formal learning · nonformal learning

Informal workplace learning – influences and change factors

March 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Learning professionals need to begin working with lines of business outside of the HR / Training orbit to provide learning opportunities for employees.

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Tags: e-learning · informal learning · non-formal learning · nonformal learning

Informal and Non-formal Workplace Learning 2

March 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Looking at workplace learning, Michael Eraut makes a clear distinction between his view of the term ‘nonformal learning’ and what others call ‘informal learning’

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Tags: e-learning

Informal and Non-Formal Workplace Learning

March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

There is a dichotomy between formal, goal-directed training programs and informal learning initiatives – “learning at the watercooler.”

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Tags: Eraut · e-learning · elearning · elearning research and development · informal learning · non-formal learning · nonformal learning · workplace learning

Is informal learning this year’s L&D Rubik’s cube?

March 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The domain characterized as “informal learning” by Bersin & Associates (and other organizations) is more correctly called Non-Formal Learning.

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Tags: Colley · e-learning · e-learning definition · e-learning industry · informal learning · non-formal learning

M-Learning via the iPhone 3 – some approaches and technologies

February 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Today’s post returns to the altogether more prosaic task of identifying the characteristics of m-learning. I think that the best way to approach this is to characterize m-learning’s parent domain, e-learning.

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Tags: e-learning · elearning · iPhone · learning on demand · m-learning · mobile device · online learning · technology in education · use of elearning · video podcast

M-Learning via the iPhone 2 – some approaches and technologies

February 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I started to investigate the characteristics of mobile learning by going back to basics, specifically looking at the foundations this domain: training, instruction, education and learning. Today, I’m going to begin in earnest by telling you a story about a book – a wholly remarkable book in fact, that was first conceived nearly forty years ago.

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Tags: e-learning · e-learning ecosystem · iPhone · m-learning · use of elearning

M-Learning via the iPhone 1 – some approaches and technologies

February 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment

If you, as an e-learning professional, have an audience for knowledge- and content delivery via mobile devices including the iPhone. In this series of articles, I will discuss approaches to delivering training via PDAs like the iPhone.

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Tags: Constructivism · e-learning · elearning · iPhone · learning 2.0 · learning and development · learning curve · learning technology