Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Favorite 2009 posts on Informal Learning Blog

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Here are the most popular posts on the Informal Learning Blog in 2009. Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning. T o implement social/informal learning infrastructure projects, learning and development professionals need to shift their focus from learning to earning. Power of informal learning in developing managers.

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Climbing the collaboration curve

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

When people are actively pulling in learning resources rather than taking what’s pushed at them, the value of the network goes turbo, an effect the authors call the collaboration curve. This underpins Informal Learning 2.0. The evidence for the collaboration curve is, as yet, mostly anecdotal.

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Web 2.0 and Change Present Challenges to Many Learning Executives

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning (and author of the definitive book on the topic), Web 2.0, Jay spoke with Learning Executives Briefing about informal learning and the changing role of the CLO. tools being used in learning—are getting more attention than the end result? It’s also changing informal learning.

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Arts & Letters Daily, Denis Dutton RIP

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

History belongs to everyone and to no one: hence its universal authority. I corresponded with Dutton, thanking him for making and maintaining such a great resource. Do electronic books spell the end of paper as the preferred book medium? Any optimism on behalf of trees is premature, says the Economist … [ more ].

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Interesting spaces - informal meeting and/or socializing space. Response 13 Interaction; good web conferencing software, audio and video elements, whiteboards, diverse contributions. As a presenter, great guidance and specific information from organisers. Response 31 high-quality participants with buying authority.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

The Information Era has arrived. Human resources are more important than natural resources, brains more important than brawn. In the information age, innovation is the competitive advantage. That bears repeating: In the Information Age, learning is the business. Abundant information obsoletes the concept of rank.