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Informal Learning in Organizations
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Informal Learning in Organizations

How to Create a Continuous Learning Culture

Robin Hoyle
Kogan Page, 2015

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Seasoned learning and development (L&D) professional Robin Hoyle explains why organizations need to manage informal learning and how they can do it well. Planning and management apply to purposeful undertakings – for example, classroom instruction – but informal learning is ad hoc and unrestrained. The solution lies working with the inherent contradiction between unscripted improvisational learning and the degree of structure a company needs to organize its employees and to track what they know and what they’re learning. getAbstract recommends Hoyle’s guidance and his program to L&D professionals.

Take-Aways

  • Formal learning occurs in the classroom; informal learning occurs everywhere.
  • Organizations should plan and manage formal and informal learning for employees.
  • The 70:20:10 formula holds that 10% of learning occurs in classrooms, 20% involves information sharing and 70% derives from working.

About the Author

Robin Hoyle is a training and development professional. His company, Learnworks, creates blended learning programs for global organizations.

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    M. d. 7 years ago
    Read this one when you are interested in the 70:20:10 rule. Good ideas on where an organization could start with informal training, which is still underdeveloped - just go on your intranet and try to learn about a topic.