Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Here are the most popular posts on the Informal Learning Blog in 2009. Some instructors and instructional designers now see me as a job threat. Agile instructional design. I nstructional design was invented around the time of World War II. Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning. They needn’t worry.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Here are the top sites from Informal Learning Flow for September 2009. The Awesomeness Manifesto - HarvardBusiness.org , September 16, 2009. An Operating System for the Mind - Half an Hour , September 19, 2009. RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized - OReilly Radar , September 14, 2009.

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Social Networks LearnTrends Social Network Torrent 44

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

How can conferences be designed to amplify multiple back channel conversations, foster interaction over content presentation, and create opportunities for serendipitous learning? Another friend cancelled out of Training 2009 after only two people signed up for his pre-conference workshop.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 29, 2010

Electric Icarus: NASA Designs a One-Man Stealth Plane - Scientific American , January 19, 2010. Four pointers to the chasm between elearning and video game designers - edublogs , January 4, 2010. Facebook usage statistics by country – Dec 31st 2009 - Robert Paterson’s Weblog , January 11, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 31, 2009

Jay’s column on Effectiveness, CLO magazine , February 2009. New categories of work will pop up to address network optimization, making connections, reconfiguring functions, real-time enterprise design, constructive destruction, virtual mentoring and so on. The dawn of a new age. What we are experiencing today is fundamental.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field. PresentationCamp is an ad-hoc gathering of passionate folks who want to share, interact and spread the love around the topic of presentation design and delivery. No More Death by PowerPoint. Response 8.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 19, 2009

The dance between market and technology readiness stair steps its way through predictable peaks of inflated expectations and troughs of disillusionment on one side and eras of ferment followed by dominant design on the other. For years now I have been hearing Virtual World vendors complain that they do not have a legitimate home.

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