Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Power of informal learning in developing managers

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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. If you’re still relying on formal training to develop managers, you might want to give this one a read.

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Straw Men

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Wikipedia: “A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position. In Informal Learning , I wrote that, “Formal learning and informal learning are both-and, not either-or. Lots of straw men live on the web. I tire of being put down for something I never said.