Jay Cross

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ASTD no more

Jay Cross

Vendors of packaged training courses filled ASTD’s exhibit halls. Members of the Instructional Systems Association, a group of business owners, wryly called ASTD “the union.” The Board enlisted the help of identity consultants and branding experts and eventually decided on a new name: ASTD.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross

In 2002, ASTD and I introduced a blog, Learning Circuits Blog, about eLearning and networking. > Learning Circuits was ASTD’s first foray into modern learning. > Learning Circuits was ASTD’s first foray into modern learning. I was an early and frequent contributor. For a simple blog, we went far.

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15 essentials for successful learning

Jay Cross

While cleaning up my office this afternoon, I came up this list of essentials for effective informal learning I wrote a couple of years ago for the ASTD Handbook. The list appears in ASTD Handbook: The Definitive Reference for Training & Development , 2nd edition. .” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance.

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Don’t drink the informal learning snake oil

Jay Cross

Yet at the ASTD Conference six months later, dozens of vendors claimed to have eLearning. CBT Systems told the world it was being reincarnated as SmartForce, the eLearning Company. When we unveiled signs at the SmartForce booth, we were the only vendor who mentioned eLearning in the crowded exhibition area.

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Timing is Everything

Jay Cross

A landmark study by ASTD and IBM interviewed CLOs and CxOs at 26 leading companies across 11 industries (see The C-level and the Value of Learning , T+D magazine, October 2005). You saw such a map of Chief Learning Officer readers who took the time Profile earlier. How well do you get along with this group?

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The Designer’s Toolbox

Jay Cross

You don’t hear about tools like these at ASTD meetings and traditional training gatherings. The following two days were peppered with short sessions on design techniques and concepts that we then applied to projects we were working on. At UTAOU, we were more into developing platforms than programs. Mindmapping.

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danah boyd on teens and 21st century work

Jay Cross

danah boyd opened ASTD TechKnowledge 2013 with a keynote on teenagers, networks, and work in the 21st century. danah has been studying teenagers for a decade.