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Informal v Formal Learning

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I like informal learning

It is a phrase used by lots of people

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For example, Jay Cross

http://www.informl.com/

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It is about the way people in companies learn today

Informally, by themselves or from others

The learners are in control

It is a ‘pull’ model

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As opposed to being ‘taught’

On a course

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Intuitively, informal learning sounds great

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But what about our ‘shop floor’?

Many companies have 000s of employees who provide a very standardised product or service

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Surely, whilst informal learning is important...

.. some formal, centrally-designed ‘push’ training is inevitable?

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I was confused

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And then I decided that both pull and push are

possible...

...if you put them into a matrix

kind of like a ‘situational leadership’ model, for learning

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on the complexity of the person’s job

and also on the amount of autonomy the person

has

Because the approach to learning depends partly

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Here is the matrix

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It is called the Flojap model

Because it stemmed from a lunchtime

conversation

between Flora, Jane and Paul at the Berlin Online Educa conference 2008