informal learning

Informal Online Learning: Implications for Professional

DevelopmentAnne Mims Adrian @aafromaa

eXtension Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Karen Jeannette @kjeannetteeXtension

Sarah Baughman @programeval eXtension Virginia Tech

#ExtPSDP December 13, 2012

Learning results in changing

- Way of thinking

- Perspective

- Understanding and making sense of life, humanity, and morality

- Possibly behavior

http://www.psu.edu/dept/site/2010/04/more-thoughts-on-social-learning-and-context.html

Formal learning –

- is intentional, organized & structured - usually arranged by institutions - guided by a curriculum or other formal program.

(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development / Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques (OECD), n.d.; Werquin, 2007)

Non-formal learning –

- may or may not be intentional or arranged - usually organized in some way, even loosely- no formal credits granted

(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development / Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques (OECD), n.d.; Werquin, 2007)

Informal learning –

- is never organized- not guided by a rigid curriculum- is often experiential and spontaneous

(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development / Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques (OECD), n.d.; Werquin, 2007)

Informal Learning

"the acquisition of skills, knowledge,

and values from daily experience and

people around us.”

http://www.psu.edu/dept/site/2010/04/more-thoughts-on-social-learning-and-context.html

To learn by observing and doing.

Best form of informal learning is in our "natural" tasks of everyday life.

10-15% is learned in formal training. Raybould, 2000

85-90% of a person’s job knowledge is learned on the job.

Work is learning; learning is work.

– taken from Keats

Harold Jarche

Informal learning allows for co-learning across organizations and outside of organizations.

Informal learning and co-learning are better

for dealing with emergent problems.

“In a knowledge economy, the individual is the knowledge creator, and relationships are the currency”. Harold Jarche

Mobile

Ubiquitous

SocialNetworks

Disruption

Emergent

SocialCapital

Interconnections

Complexity

OpenAccess

OpenScience

OnlineMedia

Collaboration

Crowd-sourcing

Democratization

PersonlLearningNetworks

Encourage unlearning Seek and connect with others outside of areas for which we have traditionally drawn.

Learn from polarized views.

Are we hiding in small and safe groups?

Encourage Critical Thinking

Observe

Challenge & evaluate

Participate

Tentative opinions

Network unlearning

www.jarche.com/2012/12/networked-unlearning

Empowering learners

take responsibility for their own learning, assessment

openly share their learning process

learn through reflection, reflection, and peer topeer assessment

accept failure

Expectations

Immediacy Just in time—when and where needed.

Finding through search and networks.

Have to ability to learn as I want to.

Learning opportunities

On demand

Social

EmbeddedAre

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viding learn

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opportuniti

es in all w

ays?

We used to think of ourselves as the opportunity, but now we have to think about how the opportunity finds us.

Karen Jeannette

Can we ride th

e wave?

Are we even surfing?

Are we surfing in the rig

ht

places?

Incorporating informal learning

Share information and provide access before, during, and after meetings.

Allow others to use and remix content.

Openly share.

Make it easy for others to connect and share among and with each other.

Use flipped classroom style.

Don’t forget that co-learning and informal learning can be fun!

Photo credits

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/79818573@N04/8166868668/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/english106/4357006535/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/usaghumphreys/8160453602/

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Photo credits

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/4230414171/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mil8/2171507093/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/rorycellan/3916832626/

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