This is a quick post coming from comments on my last post about Informal Learning. Just to recap, I used this this definition as a starting point for trying to define Informal learning: a type of education or training program in which learners define what they want to learn and learning is considered successful when [...]
Archives for February, 2009
Unpacking the Informal Learning definition
category: informal learning
tags: definition, informal learning
What is Informal Learning
This question “what IS informal learning?” came up in a meeting the other day. The answer that was given was interesting – but it focused on educational technology. Today’s post will attempt to define informal, and in another post I’ll tackle some technologies that can be used to enhance informal learning. First, a textbook definition: [...]
category: informal learning
Feb T&D has a fantastic article on common pitfalls of blended learning
The latest Training and Development magazine (from ASTD) has a very relevant article to some of the work I am doing this quarter for my organization. The article is titled It’s [Not] the Technology, Stupid. The article is about the pitfalls of thinking just because you have the technology to do it it that you’ll [...]
category: work
Help me vet my eLearning project topic – Interacting with Adults with Asperger’s
I have to write an eLearning module for my eLearning class. Gladly accepting any suggestions… The topic is going to be: How do you identify and interact with an adult with Executive Functioning issues? Two learning objectives: The learner will identify behavioral issues displayed by adults with executive functioning issues The learner will identify strategies [...]
category: eme6415
Ed Tech – Using VMware for educational labs
I have been getting very geeky about education theory, because that is what I am learning in grad school. But sometimes I look at the posts of some of the other EMC bloggers and I feel a little left out of the techie side of things. So this post is about how I’m using VMware [...]
category: work
