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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com, said that however much hype you’ve heard about the web – the best thing since sliced bread or the printing press or sex or fire – whatever you’ve heard is simply not enough to describe what’s going on. Workers must be able to adapt rapidly without waiting for external direction.”.

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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. How workers learn now.