Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Informal Snake Oil

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Yet at the ASTD Conference six months later, dozens of vendors claimed to have eLearning. Corporations overinvest in formal training programs while neglecting natural, simpler informal processes. At the 1999 Online Learning conference in Los Angeles, CBT Systems announced it was “Smartforce, the eLearning Company.” The “e&# ?

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Note : The vintage photos in this post are from training conferences circa 2000. Some of the certificate programs conducted before conferences strike me as low-grade diploma mills. There’s lots of room for improvement. As the Recession Waxes, Business Meetings Wane. Response 48. Old habits die hard.