Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 1, 2010

WORKERS LEARN MORE in the coffee room than in the classroom. This is akin to saying that word processors write novels: it’s hardly the whole story. Informal Learning in a Nutshell gives my definition of informal learning. Formal learning—classes and workshops—is the source of only 10 to 20 percent of what people learn at work.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 24, 2010

It is always part formal — common language, shared context, fundamentals — and informal — social, learning outside the classroom. Learning, however, is not either-or. The learner accepts or rejects what’s presented formally. Learning is a continuum of degrees of formality.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 1, 2010

Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID Live on EdTechTalk) - Learning Visions , April 9, 2010. GETinsight Live Discussion This Wednesday: Game-based Learning Practical Strategies for Leaders - edublogs , April 20, 2010. Designing for an uncertain world - Learnlets , April 17, 2010. Blog Post: No more targets please!

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 3, 2010

Cell phones in the classroom - OReilly Radar , March 4, 2010. Explaining User Experience Design to High Schoolers (and other new audiences) - Adaptive Path , March 12, 2010. Futures of the Internet - Doc Searls Weblog , March 10, 2010. Three Models of Knowledge Production - Half an Hour , March 17, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2009

two introductory courses are still required — classical mechanics and electromagnetism — but today they meet in high-tech classrooms, where about 80 students sit at 13 round tables equipped with networked computers. Had physics been taught this way, I might not have opted to become a sociologist. Doesn’t this sound like fun?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Mind Over Matter: Imagery at Work and in the Classroom - Eide Neurolearning Blog , December 14, 2009. The Dreadnought Moment has come for Pub TV – KETC - Robert Paterson’s Weblog , December 20, 2009. Create a Learning Portal Using RSS to HTML Utilities - Workplace Learning Today , December 17, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 30, 2009

I don’t find much value in arguing classroom versus network-based learning or formal versus informal because it’s always a case of a little of this and a little of that. Look at the current dust-up around a article entitled Long Live Instructor-Led Learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 8, 2009

If kids in a classroom splinter into several opposing groups, their learning experience is less coherent. .&# Her own advice may be summarized as “guide your child’s peer-group choices wisely,&# but the aim of the book is less to offer guidance than to tear off cultural blinders.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 1, 2010

Israel’s Time To Know Aims To Revolutionize The Classroom - TechCrunch , February 2, 2010. The internet, depression and drinking a glass of water - Mind Hacks , February 3, 2010. 5 Simple Twitter Listening Tips Every Marketer Should Know - ReadWriteWeb , February 2, 2010. 30 seconds to creativity - Adaptive Path , February 2, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 31, 2009

We are abandoning classrooms. “We If something doesn’t dramatically improve the capabilities of our people, we won’t do it. We are scrapping lengthy program development projects in favor of quick-and-dirty rapid development. We are eliminating all travel and helping others do the same by introducing Skype and free real-time conferencing.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 24, 2010

Despite growning evidence that eLearning can produce results superior to those from the classroom, early failures sullied its reputation. You hope that people learn from training, for that’s the objective. Talking about training can blind you to alternative means of learning. People stayed away in droves.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 21, 2010

This classroom teaching method acknowledges student voice as central to the learning experience for every learner. Student-centered learning, that is, putting students first, is in stark contrast to existing establishment/teacher-centred lecturing and careerism.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2007

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 10, 2009

I believe that the moment is near when, by a procedure of active paranoic thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality. Salvador Dali, 1930. What happens to traditional training? Industrial Age. Age of Networks. Just in case. Interactive. Learn by doing. Apprenticeship.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 1, 2008

Classrooms in the wild — Informal Learning Blog on 05.14.08 By the way, Jay, Sugata told me they had conducted the experiments not only in Africa but also in Cambodia, with strikingly similar results. #4. jaycross on 12.11.07 at 10:20 am. Frontline video on Sugata’s project. #5. at 10:26 am. [.]

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 13, 2010

Better I should learn something in the office or on the factory floor where I will use it than away in some sterile classroom. Retrieval is better when it takes place in the same surroundings as the original encoding. You’ll remember something better if it’s complex, relevant, in context, and tied to numerous other ideas and concepts.

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