Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Learning is a continuum of degrees of formality • BY JAY CROSS. In the five years since the publication of Informal Learning, I’ve become the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. I didn’t invent the concept. Informal learning is older than civilization. My contribution has been pointing out that overemphasis on formal learning in organizations is dysfunctional, uneconomic, bad business, and not a whole lot of fun.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2010

For several years, I’ve used YouSendIt to send large files over the net for free. Yesterday I tried to send a 1.25 gig movie to a colleague. YouSendIt said I’d need to sign up for the pro version to send a file that big. I clicked the okay button and was charged $110 for a year’s service. So far so good. Then I received a notice that my file was not transferred due to technical errors.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Here’s a worthy idea. Mobilize your users to support one another via Twitter. This instance is part of the latest upgrade to Firefox. The push button takes you to their Tweetstream.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Amazon just dropped the price of Informal Learning to $28.96. The Kindle edition is $26.06. You can buy a giant (4′ x 2′), durable, grommeted Informal Learning poster in the Internet Time Store. The Store also offers an online, read-only version of The Working Smarter Fieldbook for $12. Got money you have to spend before year-end? The Internet Time Store will sell you 30 minutes of advice from Jay for a mere $450.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2010

An artifact from Learning Day at the European Commission. My keynote was titled “The Impact and Inevitability of Informal Learning.&#.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Social media Christmas circa 1 AD. Thanks to Marc Rosenberg for tipping me off to this one.

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