Jay Cross

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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. Make it drop-dead simple to access people in the know, the lessons of experience, how-to information, and performance support. Whenever possible, provide choices.

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Timing is Everything

Jay Cross

That explains why I get upset with Past thinkers who slam me for not providing footnotes and with Present thinkers who want to hold up the show for something I consider inconsequential. If you are a Past thinker , your role is to gather true and accurate information and make sure the group considers it carefully.

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LearnTrends Tweetstream backchannel

Jay Cross

Feature | Block trishuhl #ASTD -comnts frm #learntrends – we’re not the most tech inclined cmty < 5% @ TK cld txt -agreed but sm grp is tryin to upskill our peers -12:11 PM Nov 18th, 2009. Tags: Informal Learning. Feature | Block rlohuis is weer even klaat met #learntrends ( [link] ), morgen weer een dag.

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

Jay Cross

Moderator (Harold Jarche): though informal can work for new hires too: [link]. Plug for ASTD - CPLP Certification includes all of these areas of expertise. Sandy E: In this context, I think ADDIE simply provides a way to organize and structure the things that we're exploring. Moderator (Harold Jarche): no significant difference.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. I’ll be leading a series of master classes on informal learning and working smarter in Europe. Informal Learning – the other 80%. Because organizations are oblivious to informal learning, they fail to invest in it. Execution is the goal.

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My evolving learning journey

Jay Cross

ASTD held TechKnowledge in San Jose this year. Needless to say, the “capital of Silicon Valley&# has a different take on providing wifi. Google provides a lot of the infrastructure social learning rides on; they own Blogger, YouTube, GoogleDocs, GoogleAnalytics, and so forth. Or leaks private information?