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This is a three page summary from Jay Cross about informal learning, accompanied by a great poster  (finally worked out how to do ’tile’ printing after a few discussions with the printer). Everyone I’ve shown it to so far has given it rave reviews.
I particularly liked this bit…

Free-range Learners
Training is something that’s pushed […]

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“Different Voices, Different Spaces is a collection of resources that features a ‘good practice’ model applied to voice technologies in teaching and learning within a range of adult education and vocational training settings.
This collection comes out of a 2005 New Practices in Flexible Learning initiative linking an external educational mentor with three voice […]

Last week we played host to Terry Marler and Jean Tilleyshort of Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. On Friday we asked our visitors to present a lunchtime forum for our staff and we were treated to a overview of Otago Polytechnic and the VET system in New Zealand, some cross-Tasman storytelling and a tour of saris […]

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From the IT Training Doctor, “The story illustrates the difference between traditional training and ROLF training (constructivist-based, reality focused). The training happens to be “soft skills” - if you can call defence against the undead a soft-skill - rather than IT training.”
I am thinking this could be a great story to […]

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From K Boan, via James Farmer, comes this handout on Blogging in Wordpress, using the edublogs.org / learnerblogs.org services.

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from Dave Warlick : “Rather than getting their content exclusively from a packaged information product, designed to make learning slick and easy, students are asked to visit a variety of information sources, that, hopefully, do not agree on every aspect of the topic. It puts more responsibility of learning, on the shoulders of […]

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from Kirk Montgomery, a list of sites that offer icons issued under a mix of Creative Commons (CC) license, General Public License (GPL), and the Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Some of the workshops I run are about showing participants a range of tools that they may later, sometimes much later, implement. To formalise the offer of coaching and follow-up, how about giving them a ‘voucher’ for coaching - after a hands on session on blogging for example, you might present participants with a two […]

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This website has been developed by   and includes lots of short and useful PD resources on the following topics:

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“After 41 years in the auto body industry, 27 of these as a teacher at the Institute of TAFE Tasmania, Denis Crowden decided it was time to pick up the tools again and undertake a Return to Industry placement at Elite Crash Repairs in Ulverstone.”
Return to Industry is a program for TAFE Tasmania […]

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from Alex Havalais about a uni course that incorporated blogging as a learning activity: “I asked students to reflect about what they had learned over the course of the semester, and though I didn’t ask about blogging specifically, many of them included comments about it. I have posted excerpts of most of the […]