Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency

Via Jay Cross, an older article about transfer of learning. The study suggests…

…managers learn mostly from informal learning, that proficiency is the product of informal learning, and that metacognitive knowledge and self-regulation skills moderate informal learning and the transfer process.

A chart from the study [click image to make larger].

The total study, from Human Resource Development Quarterly, is 19 pages and was written by Michael D. Enos, Marijke Thamm Kehrhahn, and Alexandra Bell.(JC)

Power of informal learning in developing managers | Informal Learning Blog | Jay Cross | 21 October 2009

Tagged as: Informal Learning, transfer