Jay Cross

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Activity Streams

Jay Cross

An activity stream is a mash-up of an individual’s or organization’s feeds. For example, my FriendFeed pages show activity from this blog, the Internet Time Blog, my Flickr account, bookmarks I put on Delicious, and my entries from Twitter. Activity streams are going to be wildly important for social learning.

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Checklist: transforming corporate learning

Jay Cross

Experience has taught us that making over a training department into a business learning function requires these activities: Sell the vision of learning as a value-creating component of social business. assess opportunity by benchmarking against emergent practices of successful social businessesLay the foundation for transformation.

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Franz Kafka and ATT

Jay Cross

People who call our business phone line are asked to dial 911 if it is an emergency. Otherwise, “this subscriber has not activated Uverse Voice.” I called the activation number provided and was told my phone had been activated. I will provide you some steps to activate the phone service. Am I correct?

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The Coherent Organization

Jay Cross

These are necessary to not only do the work but to prepare for the work to be done: emergent practices.” He’d populated our network clouds: Clark then brought like items together and classified them by activity to produce this matrix: Expanding on the model.

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14 Articles on MOOCs

Jay Cross

Perhaps most importantly, however, a MOOC builds on the active engagement of several hundred to several thousand “students” who self-organize their participation according to learning goals, prior knowledge and skills, and common interests. link] (see also entire special issue on Emergent Learning, Connections, Designs for Learning: [link].

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Pssst: The Emperor Has No Clothes

Jay Cross

Then read When The New Yorker Probes the Decline Effect, An Opportunity Emerges to Rethink Science Education. These include: Affective factors such as providing for free choice, creating activities that are internally driven and challenging, encouraging wonder, delight, and awe, and making activities entertaining, interesting, and enjoyable.

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

To coordinate their activities, groups need a shared understanding of who is doing what. Most of this training activity assumed that you could prepare people for the future by training them in what had worked in the past. Sensing patterns and helping to develop emergent work and learning practices. The cards are still out.