Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Take this free, brief, online course on Learning to Learn

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

SpacedEd is a platform designed to allow learners and teachers to harness the educational benefits of spaced education. Immediate Feedback: Once a question is answered, detailed educational feedback is provided. SpacedEd co-founder and CEO Duncan Lennox says that is precisely what his product is doing for physicians. I was skeptical.

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Workshop on putting informal learning to work

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Organisations are finding huge benefits in getting concrete about informal learning, social learning and self-service learning. He will provide case examples of organisations that are taking advantage of Twitter, blogs, wikis, and other social networking tools. How does your organisation stack up?

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Learning in times of economic meltdown

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Temporary workers and the “company of one” will be providing more service — and corporations need to figure out how to develop these non-employees. personal knowledge/learning techniques will benefit the whole or the communities to which the learners belongs. more really tailored content has to be provided.

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Corporations need to catch up on open content

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Free, open content provides an irresistible value proposition. That aside, companies need to balance the benefits of access to the dangers. Suddenly, it is possible to imagine a new model of education using online resources to serve more students, more cheaply than ever before. It is a bandwidth issue.

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Web 2.0 and Change Present Challenges to Many Learning Executives

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

With complex products, service becomes more important than manufacturing because companies need to be focused on helping customers reap the benefits from what their companies do or make. If you don’t have learning benefits for your partners or people in your supply chain, it doesn’t add up. Businesses are becoming networks.

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Giving up control

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

But virtually all the evidence I’ve seen over the years convinces me that people (whether employees, partners, or customers) can be trusted, and do predominantly use the new social software platforms in ways that provide benefit and credit to the companies that establish them. I agree with Andy on this.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Successor companies benefit the parent organization’s stakeholders. Most businesses have wrung most of the productivity benefits out of their processes. It’s not as if the monolithic TimeWarnerMicrosoftCisco Consortium is going to provide all the entertainment, training, phone calls, and news you’ll ever need.