Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Get Out of the Training Business

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Jay’s column on Effectiveness, CLO magazine , February 2009. The dawn of a new age. If you’re looking for a way to weather the economic downturn, the first thing you need to do is realize that it’s a permanent climate change, not a passing storm. What we are experiencing today is fundamental.

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

According to a survey released last month that was conducted by the industry trade group Meeting Professionals International and American Express, 7 percent of business meetings already scheduled for 2009 have been canceled. And attendance is expected to be down by about 5 percent at those meetings that are still being held, the survey found.

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New skills for learning professionals

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Last month I opened the IADIS eLearning 2009 Conference in Portugal with an address on Redefining Instructional Design. We addressed this question at the April 2009 Learntrends event. This month’s big question asks, “In a Learning 2.0 Charles Jennings, Ellen Wagner, and Curt Bonk vigorously tackled the issue.

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Organizational competence

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I explored this individual vs. group meme in a column entitled Trios Trump Singletons in the August issue of CLO. My columns for CLO are limited to 750 words. I plan to devote more energy in 2009 to exploring social learning. Individuals (plural). It’s what happens when people strive together. Form over function?)

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Organizational competence

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I explored this individual vs. group meme in a column entitled Trios Trump Singletons in the August issue of CLO. My columns for CLO are limited to 750 words. I plan to devote more energy in 2009 to exploring social learning. Individuals (plural). It’s what happens when people strive together. Form over function?)

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