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Bring Informal Learning Into the Light

Shadow learning is self-directed instruction that employees complete but that employers rarely recognize.

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Tue Jul 01 2025

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Most employee learning doesn't happen in classrooms, training programs, or formal workshops. It happens in the flow of work—through podcasts, video tutorials, massive online open courses, and trial and error. That is shadow learning, the vast but largely invisible world of informal knowledge acquisition.

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