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JAY CROSS
APRIL 16, 2013
Informal Learning – the other 80%
The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. I’ll be leading a series of master classes on informal learning and working smarter in Europe. Informal Learning – the other 80%. Because organizations are oblivious to informal learning, they fail to invest in it. Let’s look at what informal learning is and what to do to leverage it.
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CLARK ALDRICH
OCTOBER 5, 2011
Clark Aldrich Research Common Citations, 2003
In 2003, my first book was published, Simulations and the Future of Learning, as well as my first simulation, Virtual Leader. This linear framework has influenced how they gathered information for decades. The conclusion was this: 2003 Published Writings Include: Aldrich, C. 2003), 'Experience Options.', 2003), 'Management Options.', 2003), 'Content First.',
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LEARNING AND WORKING ON THE WEB
AUGUST 2, 2010
A personal learning journey
continued to work with enterprise knowledge repositories and KM related projects until I started freelancing in 2003 and was faced with the challenge of creating my own knowledge management system with a minimal budget. then played with metaphors to explain my emerging processes ( 2006 ); “ Basically, you can take a few free web tools and start controlling your information streams (Input). also observed that government managers especially needed to develop ways of prioritizing and coping with information flows while leaving space for real time conversations.
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JAY CROSS'S INFORMAL LEARNING
OCTOBER 20, 2009
Power of informal learning in developing managers
Here’s a six-year old article on informal learning I discovered while Googling for material on learning transfer. Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency. 4, Winter 2003. Formal classroom training is the mode of instruction most widely used by corporations to develop managers (Bassi & Van Buren, 1999), but researchers suggest that most managerial learning takes place informally (Lowy, Kelleher, & Finestone, 1986; McCall, Lombardo, & Morrison, 1988). Michael D. Enos, Marijke Thamm Kehrhahn, Alexandra Bell.
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EFRONT
MAY 2, 2012
From information to knowledge and the democratization of learning
We live in the era of the ‘Information Revolution’. For the first time in history billions of people around the globe have access to tons of information digitally stored in what we already call “the cloud” One could reasonably expect unprecedented growth and prosperity for the global economy! We try to make this informal knowledge searchable and transferable.
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BIG DOG, LITTLE DOG
APRIL 20, 2009
Improving Informal Learning
Harold notes the 80-20 funding ratio between formal and informal learning and Will Thalheimer questions this funding differential in the comment section. That is, 20% of the learning in organizations is formal, while 80% is informal; however, organizations spend 80% on formal learning and only 20% on informal, thus it looks something like this: Chart 1. 2003). 1990).
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