Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Favorite 2009 posts on Informal Learning Blog

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Here are the most popular posts on the Informal Learning Blog in 2009. Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field. Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning. I’ve learned a whale of a lot from these events over the last twenty years.

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July Informal Learning Hotlist

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

July 1, 2009 to July 30, 2009. An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day - HarvardBusiness.org , July 20, 2009. Transparency is the new objectivity - Joho the Blog , July 19, 2009. Blog – Why Incompetence Spreads Through Big Organisations - Technology Review Feed – Tech Review Top Stories , July 5, 2009.

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Internet culture

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Chief Learning Officer magazine , Effectiveness, April 2009. Asymmetrical productivity : Twenty years ago, training departments prided themselves on consistency: providing precisely the same training experience to everyone in the organization. by Jay Cross. That’s no longer a good strategy for making money.

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field. Enough variety to provide a wide range of options Enough opportunities for informal fellowship to allow me to meet others. Provides an opportunity to interact with others and create collaborative work.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

It’s not as if the monolithic TimeWarnerMicrosoftCisco Consortium is going to provide all the entertainment, training, phone calls, and news you’ll ever need. Furniture.com began providing operator assistance to customers buying by phone. > 09-Jan-2009 08:36 126K 1999 Knowledge Manag.> 1999 Age of Networks.>

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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. Yet other moderators seed discussions to channel conversations in ways that might provide insight to the organization.

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