Jay Cross

MAY 8, 2014

The American Society for Training and Development has ceased to exist. In 1947, it came to life as the American Society of Training Directors. In 1947, it came to life as the American Society of Training Directors. Vendors of packaged training courses filled ASTD’s exhibit halls. That change was a good move.

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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. The list appears in ASTD Handbook: The Definitive Reference for Training & Development , 2nd edition. .” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

Yet at the ASTD Conference six months later, dozens of vendors claimed to have eLearning. eLearning, no matter how feeble, enabled training departments to check the boxes that they’d reduced costs and still covered the important topics. CBT Systems told the world it was being reincarnated as SmartForce, the eLearning Company.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

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). The CLOs reported that most learning was technical and focused on skills; training enables the organization to operate.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

You don’t hear about tools like these at ASTD meetings and traditional training gatherings. We focused more on performance and less on training. 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. We need to train people about thinking how DIVERSE their networks are. danah has been studying teenagers for a decade. This has gotten messier now with social media. At work, people recommend people who are like them.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 20, 2009

ASTD, 56, 66, 120, 183. Close the Training Department, 76. Golden Age of Training, 66, 72. Work Smarter: Informal Learning Enters the Cloud. ADDIE, 22, 23, 102, 106. Allen Interactions, 106. Andrew McAfee, 121. Skinner, 66. balcony, 73, 106, 107. Baruch Lev, 81. Berkeley, 187, 192. beta, 5, 19, 68, 112, 115, 116, 117, 134, 167.

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