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. We’re setting up a corporate FAQ on a wiki to capture and distribute the information we once received from people who are no longer with us. The dawn of a new age. What we are experiencing today is fundamental. We are abandoning classrooms. “We

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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. My inspiration - Post conference wikis where people can share ideas, questions, resource links on each topic presented.

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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. 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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