There are SO many ways to approach learning. This post is the beginning of a learning methods A to Z, based on ideas I have been collecting and discussing in various conferences and workshops… If you have ideas, please comment and I will add them!
A
- Agenda tracking (time-tracking – see when you are most productive etc..)
- Allowing mistakes
- Asking questions
- Assessment
B
- Back-channel learning (eg using Twitter # to support non-present learning participants or see for example, LnDDave‘s ASTD2012 ICE back-channel blog page)
- Blogs (like this one… or related to specific topics, lessons…)
- Books
- Bottom-Up Innovation (eg: Kluwer Inspiration Market)
- Brainstorming
- Brown Paper Sessions
- Buddy System (as originally used in diving, climbing etc.. now used in onboarding and induction)
- Business Games (see also “Serious Games”)
C
- Case Studies
- Challenge (something to stretch you out of your comfort zone)
- Coaching (defined here as “helping other people to find their own answers to their own questions” – in contrast to “mentoring”)
- Collaboration (just working together leads to learning too!)
- Conferences
- Conversation
- Curating content (maybe using tools like Paper.Li or Pearltrees)
D
- Digital libraries, virtual bookshelf (like Shelfari.com)
- Discussion
- Documents (templates, company processes)
E
- e-Learning
- Emailing (communication updates, tips and tricks…)
- Exercise (eg security drills, fire alarms)
- Experience
- Evaluation (thus improving self-knowledge…)
F
- FAQs
- Feedback
- Flipped Classroom
- Forum
- Free time
G
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I
- InfoGraphics (like this one.. you can stick them on walls like posters, email or share via SoMe sites…)
- Info Sessions (basic knowledge sharing sessions)
- “In my shoes” (another name for “job rotation“)
- Innovation (maybe using a tool like “IdeaScale“)
- Internet
- Intervision (like “supervision”, but between peers)
- Intranet
J
- Job-aids (eg posters, quick reference guides, cheatsheets and other things on or near the place of work to remind processes or important behaviours)
- Job rotation
- Job shadowing
- Job sharing
K
- Knowledge pool (or competence matrix (per person))
- Knowledge management
- Knowledge sharing sessions (also known as “info sessions”)
L
- Language Lunches (native speakers of one target language eat lunch with non-native speakers in order to improve language skills)
- Learning Narration
- Learning Tracking
- Lecture
- “Lunch and Learn”
M
- Meetings
- Member associations
- Mentoring (defined here as “giving people expert answers to their questions” – in contrast to “Coaching“)
- (Meeting) Minutes
- MOOC – get some MOOC tips here, courtesy of @elearningPosts
- Mystery caller (common method in retail/call-centre environment for assessing service and (later) giving feedback)
N
- Networking
- Note-making; note-taking (maybe done socially by a group of people)
O
- Observation
- Onboarding
- On-the-Job training
- Outplacement
P
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- “Parrainage” (when joining a company, a “godfather” is assigned to a new joiner who can tell you simple things like, for example, where the photocopier is or who to speak to about your car expenses…)
- Peer Coaching (like Coaching, but done in groups between people in similar functions or levels)
- Personal Knowledge Management
- Podcast
- Portfolio sharing – (eg Dribbble)
- Posters
- Practice
- Presentations (which might be shared online using tools like SlideShare or Prezi)
- Problem solving
Q
- Q+A sessions
- Quality monitoring (common in call-centres, for example)
R
- Reading
- Report(ing)
- Roleplay
- Round Table events
- RSS readers or RSS feed
S
- Satisfaction Surveys
- Search engines
- Self-reflection
- Serious Games
- Simulations
- Social Learning (learning that takes place with other people, via connectivity and sharing)
- Social Media (web 2.0 sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn)
- Social Networking (often done using “social media”, a connected network of people who share and work together)
- Scrum Meetings
- Supervision
T
- Team Building Events
- Teaching
- Television
- Thinking
- Time out
- Tinkering (thanks @rotanarotana for this idea)
- Trade magazines
- Traineeship
- Training
- Trial and Error
U
V
- Video (eg YouTube or other platforms as used, for example, in “BT Dare to Share“)
- Virtual reality 5platforms like, for example, “”Second Life“)
W
- Walking around
- Water-cooler chatting
- Webinar
- Whiteboard sessions
- Wiki-creation
- Workshops
X
Y
Z
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Nice overview, Dan.
Not all were mentioned in our survey http://www.bedrijfsopleidingen.be/stimulearning/ond_vragenlijst.asp
Which I have now completed.
Looking forward to the results.