About
This blog is a place to share examples of where REAL workplace learning happens: through social, informal, and often serendipitous happenings.
We’d like to further explore ways that L&D professionals can help to support and facilitate these learning experiences — without needing to manage, control, or direct them – ie NOT through formal learning approaches.
“We” are …
Jane Hart
Founder, Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies: www.c4lpt.co.uk
Twitter: @c4lpt
Jane Bozarth
BozarthZone
Author “Social Media for Trainers”
Twitter: @JaneBozarth
We’re also on Twitter as @RealWPLearn
We look forward to meeting others interested in this project!
Here’s some selected reading:
- Real learning, let’s not confuse it with templated exercises, Charles Jennings, Improving performance through learning innovation, 19 June 2010
- Workplace learning is like learning a second language, Jane Hart, Learning in the social workplace, 11 December 2010
- 8 reasons why you should focus on informal and social learning, Charles Jennings, Slideshare, July 2010
- The other side of learning: performance is everything, Conrad Gottfredson, Learning Solutions Magazine, 26 April 2011
