Pervasive Learning

As a Learning and Development professional I am very familiar with the 70-20-10 model of learning. If the model is to be believed, it would indicate that instructional design and classroom training only amounts to 10% of a person’s learning in their role, while twice as much of that learning comes from their peers and seven times as much is learnt by accomplishing more complex tasks as part of their role.

However researchers have found that the defined 70-20-10 of learning is not as rigid as it may seem and learning is actually a combination of activities, including formal, social, and informal learning.

Pervasive learning acknowledges that formal, informal, and social learning in equal measure contribute to a person's learning. So by creating formal training materials, facilitating social learning, and curating content for informal learning, we are able to accelerate a person's learning by tapping into all three aspects of how they actually learn.

The content needs to be relevant, It needs to be available on demand and when the person needs it most.

Online learning can make social and informal learning effective to a point, but better delivey of formal and informal learning content, facilitating social learning among peers, can produce relevant, pervasive learning, for everyone within a business, every day.