Do you actually have an informal learning strategy where you work? If you answered “no,” you are not alone. I just held a webinar with over 250 attendees, and here’s what they had to say about it.
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Although there is clearly a big group that hasn’t dipped their toe in the informal learning pool, the surprise is the number of organizations who classify their informal learning strategy as “rogue” at best. This supports what I’ve been seeing anecdotally over the past year. There still seems to be heavy resistance by those who oversee corporate learning strategy to fully embrace (or at least spend money on) informal learning programs.
Anyway, I thought this would be an interesting datapoint to share (data junkie that I am). Enjoy!
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I attended the Webinar and I wanted to check will you really add the chart next day as you told us there or not, and you really did
It was really amazing! It was my first time to hear about (Informal Learning). There are many new things I learned there (almost everything you said).
I hope one day soon e-Learning and e-Learning Technologies will be more of a (science) rather than a (hobby) or a (silly game) that is played by (non-professionals). Yes, I mean what I am saying here. If we hear people like you talk about e-Learning and e-Learning technologies, I believe many around the world will start believing in the importance of e-Learning. I believe e-Learning is an important field that will continue life long because it is related to an activity that is (life long), but what frustrates me is the (non professional players) who think that preparing a power point slides is e-Learning, and who believe that all what we have to do, is adopt (moodle) and we are done!
Anyway, Thank You so much for your nice webinar and I am sorry this is my first time here in your blog, but I really tend to spend much more time here than you think.
Thanks for your comment about how e-learning is sometimes perceived out in the “real world.” You are correct! Sometimes I’m too close to the issue. I have seen e-learning make miraculous changes when implemented properly, but there is still a lot of terrible page-turning stuff for certain. I’ll keep talking and demonstrating and teaching the best I can. Thanks for the encouragement and the kind words about the webinar.
Thanks for this good posting on informal learning. Its interesting to know that in general e-learning technology is considered silly. The reason people think as such because it does not involve complexity when developing an e-learning instruction.
As said by Haitham most people including professors think best online instruction would be a PowerPoint slide. In spite of the fact that it is not a good e-learning solution as it may fail to motivate the audience. Change in the trends in technology and rising prices of commodities are instrumental in the increase of online education. With which comes new approaches and styles to deliver instruction.
To sum up e-learning will soon be considered formal education and it will be the way most instruction would be delivered in the coming years.