Informal Learning with the Social Web

December 3, 2008, 10:00 - 18:00

Metaphor for the workshop: a journey over the

Grossglockner Alpine road.

Topics

how to design and nurture learnscapes, the ecosystems of informal and web-based learning;the explosive convergence of informal learning, the read/write web, internet culture, and new business models;how network effects impact organisations, changing the nature of learning and human performance;case studies of a dozen organisations that are accelerating informal learning with wikis, social networks, collaboration, podcasts, tagging, graphics, and online teams;how internet cultural values such as transparency, rapid prototyping, giving everyone a voice, peer-based decision-making, and openness impact learning and development;how to apply an informal-learning maturity model to successfully bring on-demand learning experiments into an organisation;preparing to deal with the conservative forces of “paradigm drag” by understanding “the state of the art” in Europe, Silicon Valley and worldwide;using learnscapes to increase innovation, improve productivity, become more responsive, serve customers better, and help people grow professionally;what leaders can do to nurture productive learnscapes;reinvent learning as active, collaborative, need-driven adaptation to change.

Informal LearningFormal Learning

Destination Time Resources Topics

10:00 -11:30Phase change

Natural learningManagement 2.0

expectations, roles, informal learning, nets,

web, world, management

11:30 - 11:45 break, 15

11:45 - 13:00

LearningNetwork effects

Web 2.0The Three Bears

learnscapes, changing nature of learning,

payback

13:00 - 14:00 lunch, 60

14:00 - 15:15Learnscapes

Slam dunk ROI cases, social web

15:15 - 16:00 large group, 45 peer circle

16:00 - 16:30 break, 30

16:30 - 17:15 fish bowl, 45 fish bowl

17:15 - 18:00 TogetherLearn Story Learnscape Sandbox, ongoing community

On the road285 minutes

Break105 minutes

Large group90 minutes

Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe

Hochtor

Edelweißspitze

Fuscher Lacke

Informal Learning with the Social Web

Mountain Guides

Graham Attwell Nicola Avery Stephen CitronIgnatia de WaartPeter IsacksonCharles JenningsNick Shackleton-Jones...and perhaps others

Savvy people who will be happy to guide you this week.

Experienced mountain guides will drop by

periodically to provide tips and show us the best

routes to our destination. Please approach them with your questions throughout our time at Online Educa.

(online)

Resources

(online)

Internet Time Blog

Informal Learning Blog

Learnscaping CommunityJay’s Research Page

Jay’s ecosystem: for reference

jaycross.com

interface

Internet Time Wiki

HOME

Today

Before After Later

beta

Earlier

Formal Informal

Control Top-down, strict, tight Some self-directed Bottom-up, peer-to-peer, laissez-faire

Delivery Courses, LMS, Push Workshops Conversations, learnscapes, Pull

Duration Hours 15 minutes 3 minutes max

Content Curriculum, what they say Class + OJT Discovery, what learner needs

Timing Before or after work In between work During work

Author Instructional designer SME Learner

Time to develop

Months Days Minutes

Connections

Asymmetrical productivity

Power to the peers

Authenticity

Transparency

Perpetual beta

The Long Tail

Loose coupling

Internet values

Openness

Participation

Standards

Interactivity

beta

Real-time

Books, 1499 & 2002

A year of the un-book

trainingbehaviorist

Mager

training +support

job aidsleader guidesworkshops

trainingon CDrich graphics

branchingeliminate paper

eLearningweb replaces CDanywhere, anytimeonline presentation

1998199519901980

eLearning+add f2f back in

peer learning in groupssome options

formal learningeLearning

face to face

informal learningfocus on doing

spontaneous curriculum

learn/workplatforms

200820042001

Jay’s instructional design journey

eLearning+add f2f back in

peer learning in groupssome options

formal learningeLearning

face to face

informal learningfocus on doing

spontaneous curriculum

learn/workplatforms

200820042001