Is Informal Learning the Way Forward?
Informal learning should no longer be regarded as an inferior form of learning whose main purpose is to act as the precursor of formal learning. Yet, I have some doubts as to whether informal learning...
View ArticleHistory of Informal Learning: the Early Years
The emergence of digital / digitisation / digitalization is forcing organisations to rethink and evaluate how workers learn and how to support effective performance. How do people learn? Why? What...
View ArticleTowards a Definition of Elearning
“E-learning” means different things to different people. When you consider that you can call the discipline “e-learning”, “elearning” or even “eLearning”, it’s no surprise that there is a range of...
View ArticleTowards a Definition of E-learning, 2
E-learning is based on 3 basic criteria. First, it's networked. Next, it's delivered to the end-user via a computing device using standard internet technology. Finally, it focuses on the broadest view...
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We define e-learning as the continuous assimilation of knowledge and skills by adults stimulated by synchronous and asynchronous learning events – and sometimes Knowledge management outputs – which are...
View ArticleDefinition of E-learning: Content Authoring
The process of authoring, delivering, engaging with, supporting and administering content are time-critical components of the delivery chain. E-learning can be authored in a time-frame appropriate for...
View ArticleIrish Govt Announces New Approach to Primary Teaching
Government to convert regular school classrooms into operant conditioning chambers. Continue Reading →The post Irish Govt Announces New Approach to Primary Teaching appeared first on E-Learning Curve...
View ArticleConstructivism 11: Organizational Learning
Argyris & Schön support the argument that individuals have mental maps both for their skill assets and how to act in situations. They assert that it is these mental maps that guide people’s actions...
View ArticleConstructivism 12: Single Loop Learning
Chris Argyris and Donald Schön suggest that each member of an organisation constructs their own representation of the actual, tacit, applied organisational behaviours, also called its “theory-in-use”....
View ArticleConstructivism 13: Double Loop Learning
In double loop learning, goals or decision-making rules are modified in the light of experience; the second loop facilitates their modification. Double-loop learning recognises that the way a problem...
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