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Sebastian Weber

At the Water Cooler of Learning by David Grebow :: Ageless Learner - 0 views

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      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Ist so was wie lesen von zufällig in Netvibes gefundenen Ressourcen, die man dann mit seinem existierenden Wissen verknüpft, auch informal learning?
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      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Meiner Meinung nach ja, weil das lesen im informellen Umfeld geschieht (es war ja nicht beabsichtigt, dieses Thema jetzt zu lesen). Es ist accidential learning
  • Learning makes brains physically bigger. Learning also makes them smarter. Smarter translates into faster, newer, better, and more competitive. And the competitive advantage of smarter in a Darwinian business ecosystem eventually leads to more profits.
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      benefits of learning for organizations
  • If people in your company learn what your company needs to know and do, you can get smarter. You can have a higher corporate IQ than some other company, and you can win. The only problem is that we have very little idea how real learning occurs. We spend billions of dollars on formal training and education, and then we wonder, where is the payoff?
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      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Organizational learning tends to be too formal
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      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Mashups (z.B. Diigo) macht es möglich, dass Leute tendenziell qualitativ besser (oder überhaupt) informell lernen. Statt die vielen Informatoinen die in vielen Artikeln verstreut sind mühselig zu organisieren (ausdrucken, annotieren, nebeneinander legen, zusammenfassung schreiben), kann man das alles schön über Services wie Diigo machen. Außerdem sind die Sachen wiederverwendbar (Mashup) und sharebar.
  • Real learning, the kind of “aha!” moment that signals the brain has connected the dots, is an absolutely wondrous and amazing mystery. It involves memory, synapses, endorphins, and encoding, and, more often than not, those accidental and serendipitous moments we call informal learning.
  • Informal learning is what goes on around our formal learning process.
  • Formal learning happens when knowledge is captured and shared by people other than the original expert or owner of that knowledge. The knowledge can be captured in any format—written, video, audio—as long as it can be accessed anytime and anywhere, independent from the person who originally had it. Examples of such formal knowledge transfer include live virtual-classroom courses with prepared slides, self-paced off-the-shelf instructional CBT courses, books, video- and audiotapes, team rooms in which documents are stored, digital libraries and repositories, a real-time seminar on the Web (or webinar), electronic performance-support tools, programs accessed during a job or task, instructor- led courses that follow an outline, repeatable lecture labs, a recorded Web-based meeting, or even e-mails that can be forwarded. Formal learning often requires prerequisites, pre- and post-assessments, tests, and grades, and it sometimes results in certification. It is often presented by an instructor, and attendance and outcomes are tracked.
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      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Definition of formal learning and examples
  • Informal learning is what happens when knowledge has not been externalized or captured and exists only inside someone’s head. To get at the knowledge, you must locate and talk to that person. Examples of such informal knowledge transfer include instant messaging, a spontaneous meeting on the Internet, a phone call to someone who has information you need, a live one-time-only sales meeting introducing a new product, a chat-room in real time, a chance meeting by the water cooler, a scheduled Web-based meeting with a real-time agenda, a tech walking you through a repair process, or a meeting with your assigned mentor or manager.
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      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      The borders between formal and informal learning are sometimes blurred. But in the context of informal learning, the activities come from the learner. He asks questions and thereby elicitates the knowledge out of someone's head.
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      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Vorteile von informellem Lernen: * Der Lernende entscheidet selbst, wen er wann was frägt * Er kann die Lerngeschwindigkeit steuern. Er hat Zeit zu reflektieren und die Sachverhalte mit existieriendem Wissen in Verbindung zu bringen * Während des formalen Lernens (z.B. in einem Kurs) ist man häufig überfordert zuzuhören und gleichzeitig zu refklektieren und die Sachverhalte zu vestehen (z.B. ist man nur mit Abschreiben oder lesen beschäftigt)
  • We all need that kind of access to an expert who can answer our questions and with whom we can play with the learning, practice, make mistakes, and practice some more.
  • In the early days of the personal computer, we would all go to the same course to “learn” how to use an application or operating system, and then we would go back to our desks, usually with a thick how-to manual. The problem was that we never used those manuals. Instead, we found the local “power user,” the person who for one reason or another had spent more time playing with the computer, or had taken more courses, or had learned directly from an expert, and we began to pepper that person with phone calls and show up frequently at his or her doorway or cube entrance. Two things quickly became apparent. First, the power user was teaching what people had not managed to learn in the class, and second, the power user had learned how to use the PC in a very different way: what he or she showed you was often not the way it had been taught. But it was the time I spent huddled in front of the power user’s screen when I really learned the word processing and spreadsheet and graphics programs I needed in my work. My learning may have started in the course, but it ended in the huddle.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      example how informal learning works and how it is embedded into formal processes
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      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      A study of time-to-performance done by Sally Anne Moore at Digital Equipment Corporation in the early 1990s, and repeated by universities, other corporations, and even the Department of Health and Human Services, graphically shows this disparity between formal and informal learning.
  • To illustrate the difference between formal and informal learning, let’s consider the game of golf. If you want to learn to play golf, you can go to a seminar, read a book about the history and etiquette of golf, watch a videotape of great golfing moments, and then you can say you know something about golf. But have you really learned to play golf?
  • From your first tee shot on your first hole, it takes hours of adopting and adapting, alone and in a foursome, in all sorts of weather and conditions. You discover what you know and can do, swing all the clubs, ask all sorts of questions, fail and succeed, practice and practice some more, before you have really learned to play golf. Real learning, then, is the state of being able to adopt and adapt what you know and can do—what you have acquired through formal learning—under a varying set of informal circumstances.
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      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      informal learning ist try & error, lernen von Experten
  • I call this the 75/25 Rule of Learning. We get only about 25 percent or less of what we use in our jobs through formal learning. Yet the majority of companies are currently involved only with the formal side of the continuum. Most of today’s investments in corporate education are on the formal side. The net result is that we spend the most money on the smallest part of the learning equation.
  • The other 75 percent of learning happens as we creatively adopt and adapt to ever changing circumstances.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Informal learning...life long learning
  • We need to factor those accidental, informal intersections of learning and performance into the process.
  • We need to foster informal moments of knowledge transfer.
  • If we want to become smarter companies, we need to encourage informal learning. We need to create what I have been calling collaborative learning environments, where we seamlessly knit together formal and informal learning. We need to use technology to facilitate the informal as well as the formal transfer of knowledge by including expert locators, e-mail connections with instructors, real-time Internet meeting places, virtual-learning support groups, instant messaging, expert networks, mentor and coaching networks, personal e-learning portals, moderated chats, and more. We need to start taking advantage of the tools and technology that exist today and those coming online tomorrow. We need to create the 100 percent learning solution, in which the proscribed formal learning events and the serendipitous learning moments are given equal value. Formal learning is only the beginning of the challenge, not the end.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      How to establish informal learning into the organization. Informal learning must go hand in hand with formal learning. At the beginning, when there is no expert who you can ask (informal learning), somebody has to read articles (formal learning). He establishs deeper knowledge of the subject with the time by try & error, connection of the subject with his existing knowledge and by discussion with other people. New people, who want to learn the subject can then benefit from the expert and can leverage informal learning techniques. In fact, informal learning is by far the greater and most important part of learning activities.
  • no formal mailboy-training program. I just walked around for an unspecified number of days with a senior mailboy, watching and learning, asking and listening. I was a young apprentice on the move. Then, one day, when I was deemed fit and ready, I walked around on my own. And if I had a question, I went over by the water cooler (yes, they did have them back then), where the mailroom su
Justine Sparks

Impressive Content Management Service - 1 views

I have been working with Saiff Solutions for quite sometime now and they never failed me since day one. The company has continued to provide me with excellent software documenta-tion and content ma...

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Restaurant System

Trustworthy Restaurant Software Provider - 1 views

When my husband and I opened our new restaurant anticipating a high volume of crowd from the nearby target field, we badly needed a point of sale system. It must be one that is not only fast ...

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Sebastian Weber

What is Informal Learning? - Informal Learning Blog - 0 views

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  • People acquire the skills they use at work informally — talking, observing others, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the know.
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      activities of knowledge workers
  • 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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      Definition
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  • Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going;
  • Mature learners, typically a company’s top performers, never show up for the bus. They want pointers that enable them to do things for themselves.
  • Informal learning is a profit strategy. Companies use it to: Improve knowledge worker productivity 20% - 30% Increase sales by Google-izing product knowledge Generate fresh ideas and increase innovation Transform an organization from near-bankruptcy to record profits Reduce stress, absenteeism, and healthcare costs Invest development resources where they will have the most impact Increase professionalism and professional growth Cut costs and improve responsiveness with self-service learning
  • Many a knowledge worker will tell you, “I love to learn but I hate to be trained.”
  • Knowledge workers thrive when given the freedom to decide how they will do what they’re asked to do.
  • Images+words communicate twice as much as words alone. Pictures translate across cultures, education levels, and age groups.
  • This informal, spontaneous, vernacular knowledge sharing is not just for surfers. Imagine having an in-house learning and information environment as rich as the internet. You’d have blogs and search and syndication and podcasts and more. You’d also have a platform just about everyone knows how to use. Some companies are already doing this
  • As work and learning become one, good learning and good work merge to become a single activity.
  • Formal learning takes place in classrooms; informal learning happens in learnscapes.
Ace Dee

Make Your Website Design SEO-Friendly with Oracle Digital - 3 views

Our company has realised that our website design should be more than just how it looks. Oracle Digital's SEO services have helped us in optimising our website design that appeals to our customers, ...

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Ace Dee

Taking the Shortest Route to Small Business SEO - 1 views

My company wanted to take the shortest route to SEO for our small business. To achieve this goal, we sought the help of Oracle Digital for identifying the keywords that will link the website to our...

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Certificate IV Assessment

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment: The Key to New Career - 1 views

The Certificate IV in Training and Assessment is the right course for enhancing and advancing the skills of employees in our company. For those who wanted to be employed as a nationally recognised ...

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

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Ace Dee

Hiring a SEO Company Can Help Your Website - 2 views

My website needed to have more visits and sales. More visits mean greater chances of these visitors to become customers and buy my products. The way to accomplish this is to have a SEO company in ...

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Felipp Crawly

Amazing Customer Service - 1 views

I would like to thank Onward Process Solutions for greatly helping me with my need for assistance in a Customer service outsourcing project. They provided me with 24/7 phone/ email answering serv...

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Sebastian Weber

Denodo Technologies - 0 views

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    Denodo extends the value of enterprise data integration initiatives with its ability to merge data across any digital source, whether it be structured, unstructured or semi-structured (Web content and data behind any web interface).
Sebastian Weber

Orchestr8 - Home - 0 views

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    AlchemyPoint is an exciting new structured web and Internet mashup platform, that transforms the everyday web into something more intelligent and useful
Sebastian Weber

Statsaholic: Website Statistics and Website Traffic Graphs - 0 views

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    Statsaholic blends website traffic graphs with a lightweight ajax-enhanced interface to satisfy hard-core traffic chart junkies - aka Statsaholics.
seth kutcher

Two Thumbs Up For Computer Assistance Services - 3 views

I am so happy for the computer assistance that Computer Assistance Online gave me. They provided me with precise and fast solutions to my computer problem. Their computer specialists really know wh...

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Certificate IV Assessment

Qualified Trainers with Certificate IV in Training and Assessment - 1 views

With a talent for helping others and teaching, becoming a trainer is the perfect career progression for me. To train myself and become recognised in my chosen field, I enrolled to get a Certificat...

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shalani mujer

Enjoying Worry-Free Computer Use - 1 views

As an executive of a medium-sized company in Oakland, life has always been hectic to me except on weekends. Nevertheless, when I have some work that needs to be rushed, I am forced to do it at home...

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Fast and Reliable Computer Repair Services - 1 views

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