Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Cross-posted from LearnTrends. Those of you waiting for the November 2010 LearnTrends Conference can stop holding your breath. Also, we depend on volunteers to make LearnTrends work, and volunteers have been in short supply lately. Tags: Informal Learning. It ain’t going to happen. Everyone here has a say-so.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Here’s tho conversation taking place at Twitter during LearnTrends. (We’d ScottSkibell Videos from Tues & Wed #learntrends event are up. Feature | Block yuuhey RT @jackiegerstein : mLearnopedia – [link] – blogs, activities, research, resources for mobile learning – #learntrends -4:15 PM Nov 18th, 2009.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. Tony: coming less from the theoretical underpinning, seeing more of this in the changes in how he gets information. Posted in Connectivism, Informal Learning, Learning Communities. This is post 1 of 3. Sometimes it can hurt.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources - Upside Learning Blog , November 2, 2009. Blogs – Day 1 – An Introduction - Engaged Learning , November 9, 2009. Social Learning Examples - Informal Learning , November 15, 2009. Use a Blog Template. LearnTrends: Microlearning - Experiencing eLearning , November 19, 2009.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. Compare to other alternatives (formal/informal learning). When the poll question was I asked, I said we were doing nothing, but we actually did tally up how many comments we received from how many different people on our team blog.

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eLearning Learning Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Metrics for the Modern CLO: How to Measure Formal and Informal Learning. Formalizing Informal Learning …What? Nothing More Important in my Life Than Blogging - eLearning Technology , September 1, 2009. Patterns at Play – Fundamental to Games - Upside Learning Blog , September 9, 2009. LearnTrends (17).

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. A company that is more aware of its own information flow and network is more able to change. We are at a similar point with networks & information. information & message shaping. This is post 3 of 3. Now What?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

After LearnTrends 2009 , I received a note from a person I know and highly respect that said, “I dropped in on several sessions over the last three days and wanted to thank you for your good facilitation skills …” It’s great to get that positive feedback, but this was actually a bit of a surprise. eLearning Technology.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Clark Quinn and I led a discussion on Reinventing Organizational Learning at LearnTrends this morning. You all had parallel conversations on your blogs etc. Moderator (Harold Jarche): though informal can work for new hires too: [link]. John McDermott: This is harkening back to Tony's comments re aggregation on his blog.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 5, 2010

They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. There’s some good information back in Online Conferences and In-Person Conferences , Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee , Online Conference Formats , and Conference Preparation. This means that some people need to attend from home. eLearning Technology.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Informal Learning 2.0. Thoughts following April Learntrends. Y esterday, Learntrends hosted a series of online conversations on boosting the performance of organizations through learning. Streams, not blogs? Like classrooms in training, blogs will always be around. My blogs show but one of many perspectives of Jay.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

You can find more on this by going to the LearnTrends – SharePoint in Corporate Learning Recordings. The L&D organization provided some instruction on the basics for how the sessions would operate and some information around Web 2.0, A blog that helped spark conversations around key topics. for Marketing.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 27, 2010

That certainly goes along with what we’ve done with LearnTrends and what’s going on with social learning. Home vs. Work I asked the audience if it was easier to get information at home or at work or about the same. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The theme of LearnTrends 2009 is a term I call Convergence. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs. It's worth taking a look at some of these: Enterprise 2.0 is the use of Web 2.0 home, shared workspace, coffee shops, etc.) eLearning Technology.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

MAY 3, 2009

informal learning and I think we are at a point where we need to put a stake in the ground. Jay Cross is doing an admirable job introducing the learning community to the idea of informal learning. LearnTrends and other efforts have been well received by the community but not without constructive feedback. concepts to audiences.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Hot Topic #2 - Social Media , Social Networks , Social Learning , and Informal Learning. Social media, social networks, communities for learning both formal and informal is bigger than I think we can even imagine at this point. What is Informal Learning , February 19, 2009. Information Radar , January 13, 2009.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The second half of the prediction “self directed learning” got less attention during the year than I anticipated, but it was there and certainly was a big part of the discussion around social and informal learning. has fallen a bit out of favor and instead we are discussing these as social and informal learning.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

2009 Top Posts and Topics , Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009 and just running through my blog posts for the year. During the year, I’ve had fantastic conversations through LearnTrends around SharePoint , Examples and Tour of Different Kinds of eLearning , Social Learning , and the Business of Learning. eLearning 2.0

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

These are my live blogged notes from Janet Clarey’s LearnTrends session on Microlearning. Missed the beginning due to a phone call, but glad to actually hear Janet’s voice after all this time interacting through blogs, Facebook, etc. References will be on her blog shortly. My side comments are in italics.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

They focus more on information push and it's less intended to have user-contributed content. They had profiles, directories, blogs to help foster sharing between spread out teams. Obviously, there is a spectrum of using SharePoint to support collaboration and using it to publish. Some used it to track bugs.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Monday, November 17, 2008 Best Online Collaboration Tools with Robin Good Live blogging this session from the Corporate Learning Trends & Innovation Conference with Robin Good. Posted by Cammy Bean at 12:36 PM Labels: collaboration tools , learntrends , mindmaps 4comments: Clau said. The end of the content God. What a whirlwind.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Here are the top sites from Informal Learning Flow for September 2009. Blog – The Evolution of Overconfidence - Technology Review Feed – Tech Review Top Stories , September 23, 2009. WordPress Just Made Millions of Blogs Real-Time With RSSCloud - ReadWriteWeb , September 7, 2009. Featured Sources. How To Get There.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Use the tag learntrends to share and find information, locate participant blogs, and invent new activities. Hook up with fellow innovative thinkers and international visionaries to gain insight into what’s going on, swap opinions, and shape the future of corporate learning. Who needs it?

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 2, 2010

Informal Learning 2.0. Last month I conducted several workshops to inject informal and social learning practices into hidebound organizations that were anxious to ramp up to the future. George Siemens, Tony Karrer, and I co-hosted the third annual LearnTrends conference. LearnTrends faculty. Workshops. North to Alaska.

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eLearning Learning Posts

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

LearnTrends 2009. Blogs – Day 1 – An Introduction - Engaged Learning , November 9, 2009. The Modalities of Blended Learning - Element K Blog , November 8, 2009. Rypple - Informal Learning , November 8, 2009. The Information Architecture of Behavior Change Websites , November 10, 2009. Best of eLearning Learning.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 15, 2009

The writing has been on the wall (or in blogs) for quite a while: Jay Cross and Harold Jarche in The Future of the Training Department The second half of the 20th Century was arguably the Golden Age of Training. Future of Learning as a Business Weird times certainly. There's an increasing need for learning, but a demise of training.

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Janet Clarey

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

An Edublog is a blog written by someone with a stake in education (teacher, instructor, policy maker, corporate educator, etc.). Now in it’s sixth year, the Edublog Awards “seek to recognize excellence in the use of blogs and social media to facilitate education.&#. Best new blog: performance.learning. A must read.

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Sticky Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I did however miss the first wave of social media on the net, there are many who have written blogs for 5-10 years and are a great deal more connected than I am and are across everything web2.0. Permission Learning , Fish are the last to recognise water , Breaking the learning drough t , Informal learning - it's not new ).

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Also, online people increasingly turn to their social networks when seeking information, recognizing that these people are likely to lead them to results. It is amazing how much and how quickly information is added by the community when it is relevant. LearnTrends 09 starts this coming Tuesday. Related entries: Beer and blogs.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2010

Using David Wilkins diagram: We are talking about how formal (or informal) can leverage tools that employees will be using outside of the context of learning. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs. This could be: SharePoint, Yammer, Confluence, etc. eLearning Technology.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Blog Curator – right now this is me. I try to find the best blogs that will flow into the topic hub. See 15 More Workplace eLearning Blogs and Top 99 Workplace eLearning Blogs for a bit more detail on this. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs.

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. Top 10 Resources on Instructional Design: Basics and More - Designed for Learning , August 3, 2010 I recently read a blog post by Janet Clarey highlighting the need to go back to the basics. Force navigation. Assign people into roles. Technical Issues. Unported License.

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Xyleme

DECEMBER 3, 2009

While I could write an entire blog post on the reasons for this, I think Clark Quinn summarizes it quite nicely: “As work becomes more complex and the level of information explodes, speed-to-competence will depend on an organizations ability to allow learners to support themselves by tapping into the knowledge of others.”

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