Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 26, 2010

Harm told me about his team’s experience with informal learning in an engagement with Sara Lee. When finished this individual brainstorm, we plenary discussed the results, what resulted in the following list of learning activities: - Experiences on the job. Informal: - Experiences on the job. Training programs. Networking.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here’s a six-year old article on informal learning I discovered while Googling for material on learning transfer. Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency. Studies that have investigated managerial informal learning in the workplace have demonstrated its pervasiveness.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Here are the most popular posts on the Informal Learning Blog in 2009. Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning. T o implement social/informal learning infrastructure projects, learning and development professionals need to shift their focus from learning to earning. Power of informal learning in developing managers.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The college experience is a perfect example. One no longer needs to own a television station, a printing press, or a broadcast transmitter to disseminate information, for example. With just a computer and access to the internet, one can view or consume an almost unimaginably diverse array of information and points of view.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 27, 2009

Smart Search, e.g. Informal Learning Flow. Activity streams, e.g. Jay’s FriendFeed. EyeJot for video email and a sample. Becoming who you are. Getting good at what you do. Figuring out how to do a good job. Preparing for an uncertain future. Aggregation. Tony Karrer. FriendFeed. Jay’s Tumblr. Publishing.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Workers at the the bottom of the traditional organizational pyramid are those who interact closest with their environment (market, customers, information). Management’s job is to assist this dynamic flow of sense-making and to respond to workers’ needs, within a trusted network of information and knowledge sharing.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 5, 2009

Next month I’ll be conducting several onsite workshops to inject informal/social learning practices into hidebound organizations that are anxious to ramp up to the future. What’s it worth, for example, to offer learning opportunities to potential recruits before they come on board? Take me, for example.

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