Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 2, 2011

Nevertheless, for the majority of authors, it seems clear that non-formal learning is rather organised and can have learning objectives. Emphasis is mine.]. This talk of absolute like always and never is bi-polar thinking at work.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 27, 2009

While I haven’t attempted to try this out, the instructions appear sound, and there’s plenty of hand holding provided by an author who clearly wants to help you succeed in putting courses online. Moodle Course Conversion is a step-by-step cookbook for transferring existing course material into Moodle.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 8, 2009

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. Each new node gives them more opportunities to learn and to perform better. The evidence for the collaboration curve is, as yet, mostly anecdotal.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Let me be clear here: I’m talking about the volatile, exuberant Scot who founded and later sold Epic, not the American author of the well-known Big Dog/Little Dog blog and site. If you want to learn what is really going on in learning and development while rolling on the floor laughing, you’ve got to read Donald Clark.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 19, 2010

Authorities were wrong on both counts. In essence, they were like truffles: They grow in the wild, so if you want them, you put a pig or a well-trained dog on a leash and encourage it to dig around the roots of oak trees in southern France or northern Italy. Half the world's truffles are cultivated on truffle plantations in Spain.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 1, 2011

History belongs to everyone and to no one: hence its universal authority. 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 ]. This claim will be contested. But without it, we are in trouble … [ more ].

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 23, 2009

He is the author of Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance and Learnscaping: How to Get Things Done in Organizations. He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix three decades ago.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Push is the sort of learning you encountered in school, where authorities selected the curriculum and lessons were imposed on you. Relying on natural, peer-based learning improves business results. Push and Pull. Organizational learning tends to be mostly push or mostly pull.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 29, 2010

Michael Allen describes the future of authoring systems - Internet Time , January 5, 2010. - Workplace Learning Today , January 20, 2010. The K-factor Lesson: How Social Ecosystems Grow (Or Not) - Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog , January 5, 2010. The End of the Industrial Training Era - Informal Learning , January 2, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 8, 2009

For example, Scientific American Mind has a brief interview with Judith Harris, author of the controversial 1998 book The Nurture Assumption , Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do. My search for innovation finds me mashing up concepts from corporate culture with those from other disciplines.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 25, 2009

person with authority to write checks to fund. Maybe it was a new bonus system that. went into effect at the same time. products were better than the competition’s. Maybe it was sun spots. Once again, it’s a. judgment call, most likely the judgment of the. Speed matters. Getting a quick solution is. more important than finding the perfect.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

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. Each new node gives them more opportunities to learn and to perform better. Power of informal learning in developing managers.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Meet Jay Cross, author of Informal Learning , speaker and consultant. Social learning technologies, which often facilitate informal learning, seem to have paved the way for greater interest in this approach. So I think readers of The eLearning Coach would appreciate an interview with a person who wrote the book on the subject … literally.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning (and author of the definitive book on the topic), Web 2.0, Chief learning officers (CLO s) are dealing with organizations the same way they did 25 years ago—focusing on full-time employees. But businesses are becoming networks. CLO s are going to need to understand that and do something about it.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Response 31 high-quality participants with buying authority. Response 29 networking–the mealtimes and breaks are where some of the best stuff happens. Response 30 good presenters, new and interesting ideas to apply, new friends, great location, engaging experiences. Response 32 Interaction with peers and presenters.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 12, 2009

A sponsor is an individual with the authority to make budget decisions. When this project’s sponsor questioned the numbers, the learning manager asked if it would be reasonable to attribute, say, 3% of the increased revenue to the new approach to learning. The sponsor readily agreed. Whatever the sponsor buys into.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

I raved about this drag-and-drop, intuitive authoring system last year, and it has only gotten better. Ellen Wagner has issued a clarion call for pattern-based decision-making. This will be huge. It’s time to figure out what the data tell us. Allen Interactions spent a fortune promoting Zebra. My problem is that I want it now.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 5, 2008

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 12, 2008

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 30, 2007

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 10, 2009

Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Working with Emotional Intelligence , expresses the challenge this way: ”In the Industrial Age most work was organized hierarchically, and individual responsibility was replaced by systemic controls. Is the word “revolution” in this context mere hype and bluster? We think not.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 25, 2008

Mike Mitchell: “We want a culture where it is unacceptable not to share what you know… Everybody is an author now.&#. Chambers: “Fifteen minutes and one week to get a business plan that used to take six months!&#.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 25, 2008

Mike Mitchell: “We want a culture where it is unacceptable not to share what you know… Everybody is an author now.&#. Chambers: “Fifteen minutes and one week to get a business plan that used to take six months!&#.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Youï’re interested because you chose what to learn, not told to by some authority figure. You learn something because you feel the need to know it, not because someone told you to. Most of the time, you reinforce the lesson immediately by putting it to work. You remember because you put it into action on the spot.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 1, 2008

Andrew Keen , author of The Cult of the Amateur, came at things from a different direction. Children teaching themselves spontaneously. is as informal as it gets. How well would extreme informal learning work with people whose minds have already been polluted with schooling? His presentation was about â??

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