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Reflecting upon the growing adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in enterprises and organizations, I wrote a post called Shiny new technologies used by dusty old professions.

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

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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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Informal learning should no longer be regarded as an inferior form of learning whose main purpose is to act as the precursor of formal learning; it needs to be seen as fundamental, necessary and valuable in its own right, at times directly relevant to employment and at other times not relevant at all.
(Coffield 2000, [...]

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

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Changes in the world economy are forcing corporations to rethink how workers learn. What accounts for the interest in informal learning? Does it work?

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

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In this post, I will look at the some of the learning theories that support mobile learning.

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