Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 25, 2009

Reflection is vital to learning. I am delighted to report that recordings of the April Learntrends sessions are online. Congratulations to Scott Skibell for creating and uploading both standard-format videos and mp4s that you can download to your iPhone. Someone whose opinion I respect emailed me that they “think that there is a stronger moderation / content role needed for the sessions to give them a bit more push / direction,&# to which I replied.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

Informal Learning 2.0 is for foxes, not hedgehogs? The philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously divided thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs (like Plato, Pascal, Hegel, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Ibsen and Proust), who know one big thing and tend to view the world through the lens of a single organizing principle, and foxes (like Herodotus, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Goethe, Balzac and Joyce), who know many things and who pursue various unrelated, even contradictory ends.

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