Jay Cross

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Learning Styles, ha, ha, ha, ha

Jay Cross

I wrote this post in Thursday, December 08, 2005, but I’m reposting it here because some people still have not got the message.

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Learning a language (1)

Jay Cross

Also, when Chinese Pod debuted in 2005, most textbooks and training materials were disembodied from real life. What made Chinese Pod the leading choice for learning Chinese? For one thing, you can sign up for free. Fewer than 1% of those registered users are paying for the experience.

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Rare opportunity

Jay Cross

Siegel auction in October 2005 for US $2.7 The broker of the sale said the buyer was a Wall Street executive who lost the auction the previous month.[2] 2] A block of four inverted Jennys was sold at a Robert A. History repeats itself. I just received a proof copy of The Working Smarter Fieldbook from the publisher.

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Jay Changes Direction

Jay Cross

The web and knowledge were made for one another. I became a fanatic. First to use term eLearning on the web. Chief cheerleader for concept. CEO, eLearning Forum. Early conceptualizer. Wrote Implementing eLearning. informal learning. Thought leader and chief proponent of informal learning. Book (2008). Presentations worldwide. More than 50 articles.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross

After a few years of misfires and restarts, Jay helped us relaunch the blog as we now know it on January 5, 2005, with a post laying down ground rules for a group-generated blog. In short, the rules were, no self-promotional posts, no personal attacks, and keep it brief—all good advice to heed today, no matter the platform.

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Jay’s blogs fork

Jay Cross

Now it’s time for humanity to take the next step on the path, commit to a direction for the future, and start to work.&# (2005). Homo sapiens have been reading What Color is Your Parachute: Eternal Edition , and doing their information interviews for the last 50,000 years. Soon it settled down.

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Timing is Everything

Jay Cross

A landmark study by ASTD and IBM interviewed CLOs and CxOs at 26 leading companies across 11 industries (see The C-level and the Value of Learning , T+D magazine, October 2005). Think about it at the next CLO Symposium. Reading between the lines, the CXOs appear to be Future thinkers; the CLOs are Past and Present thinkers.