Adventures in Corporate Education

or, how my graduate studies are affecting my job in corporate education

What is Informal Learning

February 19th, 2009 · 13 Comments

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:
a type [...]

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Learning Enviroments I am dealing with this quarter

January 24th, 2009 · 5 Comments

After I wrote my last post about my eLearning course, I started thinking about Learning Environments (LEs). I made concept maps for both of my classes that include the designed LE as well as the personal learning environment (PLE) I’ve created to make sense of the courses. My PLE starts with the LE, and then [...]

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