Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
Mentors provide a sense of structure to guide learning, which they may do by listening empathically and by reinforcing intrinsic motivation to help the student discover a voice, a calling, or a passion. Rather, they are defined by an active engagement with the process of learning. We call this environment a collective. Workscapes.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JANUARY 5, 2010
Egoboo tools help you find yourself, you narcissist. Activity streams are sort of in between Twitter and Blogs. Here are some of the tools I added to my repertoire of handy freebies in 2009. Similar Site searches for sites with similar content to yours. Rypple is a web-based app that makes it easy to gather anonymous feedback quickly.
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Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MARCH 30, 2009
But in what ways do social software applications such as LinkedIn and FaceBook help people to learn? I am an active FaceBook user (but only with friends and family) and am making more use of LinkedIn, but I don’t find either particularly effective in supporting my learning or the small circles of people that I learn with.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
Sensing patterns and helping to develop emergent work and learning practices. The training department should be encouraging and supporting these activities. Working with management to fund and develop appropriate tools and processes for workers. The only certainty about the future from here on out is that it won’t resemble the past.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
OCTOBER 2, 2009
It helps prospective students get a feel for the place before applying. Great article in the NY Times about student blogging at MIT. We’re learning, slowly, that this is how the world works, especially for high school students.”.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JANUARY 2, 2011
The OECD originated in 1948 as the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC), led by Robert Marjolin of France, to help administer the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Later, its membership was extended to non-European states. Most learning is not “mid-way between&# formal and informal.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JULY 5, 2009
An organization that is committed to working smarter needs to assess the impact of helping employees learn at every step in their career cycle with the company. But making it easier for them to learn through collaboration, self-service learning, and skill bites helps sharp people become sharper. Let them figure it out on their own.
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