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. 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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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Supplement it with on-job learning, coaching, mentoring, apprenticeship, buddy systems, study groups, electronic libraries, and opportunities to try things out in the “real world.”. In the Information Age, everyone in the organization is a learner and a mentor and a coach. > 09-Jan-2009 08:36 126K 1999 Knowledge Manag.>

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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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How to support informal learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

There’s so much to learn: more information was produced in 2009 than in all previous human history. Job know-how used to last a lifetime; now what you learn in freshman year in college may be obsolete by the time you graduate. People once had one career their entire lives; now the norm is six or seven. These days, you are paid to think.

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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. Distributing learning throughout the social fabric of an organization requires storytellers, mentors, bloggers, community elders, schedulers and editors.

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