Schedule for the workshop on Social Networks and Informal Learning conducted at Online Educa in Berlin, December 2008. Many of the surrounding files here were used during the workshop

1. Informal Learning
with the Social Web
Metaphor for the workshop: a
journey over the
Grossglockner Alpine road.
December 3, 2008, 10:00 - 18:00

2. 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.

3. Formal Learning Informal Learning

4. Informal Learning with the Social Web
Destination Time Resources Topics
expectations, roles,
Kaiser-Franz-Josefs- Phase change informal learning, nets,
Höhe 10:00 -11:30 Natural learning web, world,
Management 2.0 management
11:30 - 11:45 break, 15
Learning
learnscapes, changing
Hochtor Network effects
11:45 - 13:00 nature of learning,
Web 2.0
payback
The Three Bears
13:00 - 14:00 lunch, 60
Learnscapes
Fuscher Lacke 14:00 - 15:15 cases, social web
Slam dunk ROI
15:15 - 16:00 large group, 45 peer circle
16:00 - 16:30 break, 30
16:30 - 17:15 fish bowl, 45 fish bowl
Learnscape Sandbox,
Edelweißspitze 17:15 - 18:00 TogetherLearn Story
ongoing community
On the road Break Large group
285 minutes 105 minutes 90 minutes

5. Mountain Guides
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.
Graham Attwell
Nicola Avery
Stephen Citron
Ignatia de Waart
Peter Isackson
Charles Jennings
Nick Shackleton-Jones
...and perhaps others

6. Resources
(online) (online)

7. Jay’s ecosystem: for reference
HOME
jaycross.com
Internet Time Blog
Internet Time Wiki
interface
Informal Learning Blog
Jay’s Research Page Learnscaping Community

8. Today
rlier Before After Later
beta

9. Formal Informal
Top-down, strict, tight Some self-directed Bottom-up, peer-to-peer, laissez-
Control faire
Courses, LMS, Push Workshops Conversations, learnscapes, Pull
Delivery
Hours 15 minutes 3 minutes max
Duration
Curriculum, what they say Class + OJT Discovery, what learner needs
Content
Before or after work In between work During work
Timing
Instructional designer SME Learner
Author
Months Days Minutes
Time to
develop

10. Internet values
Connections
Participation beta
The Long Tail
Power to the peers
Standards
Perpetual beta Loose coupling
Real-time
Interactivity Openness
Asymmetrical productivity Transparency
Authenticity

12. Books, 1499 & 2002

13. A year of the un-book

14. Jay’s instructional design journey
training training + training
eLearning
behaviorist support on CD web replaces CD
Mager job aids rich graphics anywhere, anytime
leader guides branching online presentation
workshops eliminate paper
1980 1990 1995 1998
formal learning
eLearning+ eLearning learn/work
add f2f back in
peer learning in groups
face to face
platforms
some options informal learning
focus on doing
spontaneous curriculum
2001 2004 2008

15. formal learning
eLearning+ eLearning learn/work
add f2f back in
peer learning in groups
face to face
platforms
some options informal learning
focus on doing
spontaneous curriculum
2001 2004 2008