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Cultivating Informal Learning Cultures and
Communities of Practice*
These sessions are being offered as elective workshops in the University
of Calgary Continuing Education Certificate program in 2005.
Informal Learning in Organizations: Fostering Learning as It
is Lived
Face-to-face: Tuesday, Feb. 15, 6:00 - 9:00pm, #051355*
Online: Tuesday, May 24 to Tuesday May 31, #061316
Communities of Practice: Learning Across the Lines
Face-to-face: Tuesday, Mar. 15, 6:00 - 9:00pm, #051356
Online: Monday, June 13 to Saturday June 18, #061317
Click
here to register for these courses.
Over 70% of learning is hidden -like the greater bulk of an iceberg
- that is, it occurs informally rather than through traditional
education such as training courses. Notwithstanding the value of
formal learning methods, most people learn informally from each
other because they share a common passion for a subject or goal.
Learning does not belong to individual persons, but to the "various
conversations of which they are a part" (1999, Jeffs and Smith).
Hence, it is about conversing about our experience in the world
and our relationships. It requires open dialogue, sharing both explicit
and implicit knowledge and it is primarily about association - belonging
and identity.
And it mostly occurs in Communities of Learning whether
these communities are unstructured (social gatherings), semi-structured
(communities of practice), shared
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