Upcoming Presentations and Webinars

Presentation	Event	Sponsor	Date and Location	For more Information
What’s the Real Scoop on Online Learning	Thought Leader Webinar	eLearning Guild	December 11, 2012	www.elearningguild.com
Host, Research-to-Practice Day and Presenter, Performance, and Perceptions: Research on Our Evolving Roles	CSTD Conference and Trade Show	Canadian Society for Training and Development	October 31, 2012	www.cstd.ca
Keynote Presentation: The Future of the Technical Communication Brand	TCANZ Conference	Technical Communicators Association of New Zealand (TCANZ)	October 25, 2012	www.tcanz.org.nz
Workshop: A Crash Course in Writing e-Learning Programs	TCANZ Conference	Technical Communicators Association of New Zealand (TCANZ)	October 25, 2012	www.tcanz.org.nz
Workshop: Practical Tips for Effective, Efficient Projects	TCANZ Conference	Technical Communicators Association of New Zealand (TCANZ)	October 25, 2012	www.tcanz.org.nz
Webinar. Evaluating Informal Learning	ASTD Webinar	American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) Learning and Development Community of Practice	September 27, 2012	http://www.astd.org/Communities-of-Practice/Learning-And-Development.aspx
Webinar. Informal Learning Basics: So What Are the Basics?	ASTD Webinar	American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) Learning and Development Community of Practice	July 17, 2012	http://www.astd.org/Communities-of-Practice/Learning-And-Development.aspx
Keynote Presentation. What the Research Says about Informal Learning (and Implications for Practicing Professionals)	International Conference on eLearning in the Workplace	International Conference on eLearning in the Workplace	October 14, 2012	www.icelw.org

Informal Learning Basics Now Available

Informal Learning Basics has officially been published by ASTD Press.  

If you are an ASTD member, you might have received an announcement about the book through email. If not, here’s the notice.

Informal Learning Basics explores one of the hottest topics in training today.  It describes how training and development and other Human Resources professionals can better harness informal learning.  By some accounts, informal learning—in which learners define some combination of the process, location, purpose, and content of learning and may or may not be conscious that learning occurred—provides as much as 70 percent of all learning in the workplace with little or no involvement of training and development professionals.  

So readers have realistic expectations and plans for the application of informal learning in the workplace, the book first describes how informal learning works and identifies how to use it effectively at key touch points in the life cycle of a job.  Then, to help readers harness the power of informal learning, this book describes how readers can support 22 specific types of group and individual informal learning,  how social, enterprise and other instructional technologies can assist in those efforts, and how to evaluate informal learning.  Each chapter includes exercises that help readers apply the concepts presented in the book and worksheets that readers can use when planning informal learning efforts in their organizations.

To find out what type of informal learner you are, check out the next post on this blog.  

To order, visit http://saulcarliner.blogspot.com/2012/05/order-books-including-informal-learning.html