Jay Cross

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Ten years after

Jay Cross

In 2002, ASTD and I introduced a blog, Learning Circuits Blog, about eLearning and networking. Excited about the new communication tool, we actually started our first blog somewhat ambitiously in 2002 as an experiment lead by informal learning guru Jay Cross and Learning Circuits editor Ryann Ellis. For a simple blog, we went far.

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14 Articles on MOOCs

Jay Cross

Complexity, Resilience, and the Need for Agility in Learning<br />Barnett (2002) highlighted that we now live in a world characterized by “super-complexity,” uncertainty, and change: “Work, communication, identity, self, knowing, and even life: the meaning of fundamental concepts are no longer clear in a world of change” (p.

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The User Illusion

Jay Cross

Could the effects of a little nonsconsciousness creeping into the conscious realm help account for ADD and schizophrenia? But we cannot know that it is not order just because we cannot see it—and no mathematics, logic, or computers can help us. Reposted from review in 2002. Trust the force. The unconscious.) Computation.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

Years ago a start-up commissioned me to write a white paper that would help put them on the map. We discover how to do our jobs through informal learning – observing others, asking the person in the next cubicle, calling the help desk, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the know. I wrote the paper that follows.