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Paul Beaufait

Donald Clark Plan B: Jay Cross: informal learning guru - 0 views

  • Informal learning is driven by conversations, communities of practice, context, reinforcement through practice and now social media to “optimise organisational performance”. Blogs, wikis, podcasts, peer-to-peer sharing, aggregators, social media and personal knowledge management are all emergent phenomena, unlike the top-down tools and content that traditional e-learning has provided.
  • There’s still a need for underpinning learning with good content, from books to full courses, especially for novices and business critical training such as compliance. You can’t let people who don’t know what they need to know, drift, so there’s a time and place for structured, formal learning.
  • Even ‘e-learning’ is avoided as it also leads to a default of dull, page-turning courses.
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  • Cross asks us to reflect on the obvious, but shocking, fact that almost all of our attention (and spend) goes on the formal side, while the majority of the action is informal. Much to his credit he does not abandon formal learning, but asks us to consider the accelerating role of technology in on informal learning. He moves us beyond traditional LMS and content model and beyond blended learning to a newer more naturalistic model of learning, based on real behaviour and contemporary technology.
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    Clark introduces Cross, who in turn distinguishes pushed learning from pulled learning. Clark also provides a short bibliography of Cross's work.
Sylvia Currie

Consultation on the promotion and validation of non-formal and informal learn... - 0 views

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    "The European Commission is seeking input on the promotion and validation of non-formal and informal learning. The implications of an EU-policy on this issue would be far-reaching, especially if it were to devise an accreditation initiative or  framework evaluating informal learning experiences (e.g., through those gained via open courses such as the ones offered by George Siemens, Alec Couros, Jim Groom, Stephen Downes, David Wiley, & Dave Cormier)." It will be interesting to follow this as a possible model for informal learning at SCoPE and other PD opportunities. Related to the "Evaluation Practices for Informal/Self-Paced Adult Learning" seminar: http://scope.bccampus.ca/mod/forum/view.php?id=1691
Sylvia Currie

SCoPE: Seminars: Automating Instructional Design: June 6-24, 2011 - 0 views

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    The purpose of this seminar is to share, learn, and discuss strategies and current projects in the area of automating the instructional design process. With the explosion of web 2.0, rapid e-learning design, online simulations, and other modes of training, it seems the time is right to pull together a tool that can aid the instructional designer in fitting the right type of training for the given purpose of the instruction. Is an electronic performance support system (EPSS) for designers desirable, possible? What should be included as the focus of any automated tool to instructional design?
Paul Beaufait

Robert Slavin | IEE | University of York - 0 views

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    "Leading educational psychologist Robert Slavin is a Professor in the IEE" (Biography, ¶1, retriieved 2010.12.14 [page updated 2010.11.11]). This page lists selected publications and presentations.
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