Jay Cross

APRIL 29, 2015

In 2002, ASTD and I introduced a blog, Learning Circuits Blog, about eLearning and networking. For a simple blog, we went far. > Learning Circuits was ASTD’s first foray into modern learning. In 2000, ASTD executives assured me you couldn’t charge for online instruction. <Kudos!>

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 22, 2015

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. Blog, tweet, and otherwise share your reflections. The list appears in ASTD Handbook: The Definitive Reference for Training & Development , 2nd edition.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

Yet at the ASTD Conference six months later, dozens of vendors claimed to have eLearning. Other vendors claim to support informal learning with blogs and discussion groups. (No, CBT Systems told the world it was being reincarnated as SmartForce, the eLearning Company. Most of them had changed nothing but their brochures and signage.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

You don’t hear about tools like these at ASTD meetings and traditional training gatherings. If only it were easier to scribble in blog posts! The following two days were peppered with short sessions on design techniques and concepts that we then applied to projects we were working on. Mindmapping.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

danah boyd opened ASTD TechKnowledge 2013 with a keynote on teenagers, networks, and work in the 21st century. Cammy Bean’s live-blogged post on danah’s session was invaluable in writing this summary. danah has been studying teenagers for a decade. Communications: conversations. Managers enable self-organizing teams.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Feature | Block yuuhey RT @jackiegerstein : mLearnopedia – [link] – blogs, activities, research, resources for mobile learning – #learntrends -4:15 PM Nov 18th, 2009. Feature | Block trishuhl mlearnopedia.com – aggregate of mlearning content, blogs, research, etc – #learntrends -11:24 AM Nov 18th, 2009.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 19, 2012

Harold recommended a post on Workplace Learning in 10 Years on the Learning Circuits Blog eighteen months ago. ASTD is born. Time for some quick-and-dirty research to get the brain in gear. I asked my Internet Time Alliance colleagues. That led me to an article Harold and I had written on the demise of the training department.

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