Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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ASTD groks informal learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

To my surprise, he brought up a recent article I wrote for CLO magazine on the importance of making connections. Informal Learning was the theme of Tony Bingham’s keynote presentation at ASTD’s International Conference and Exhibition in Washington this month. Here’s a recording of Tony’s presentation.

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Web 2.0 and Change Present Challenges to Many Learning Executives

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Chief learning officers (CLO s) are dealing with organizations the same way they did 25 years ago—focusing on full-time employees. CLO s are going to need to understand that and do something about it. Jay spoke with Learning Executives Briefing about informal learning and the changing role of the CLO. By Rex Davenport.

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Workshop on putting informal learning to work

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Jay will review the results of the CLO/togetherLearn survey of meta-learning practices and learning culture. Organisations are finding huge benefits in getting concrete about informal learning, social learning and self-service learning. How does your organisation stack up?

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Become a chief meta-learning officer

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

The scope of the job of the CLO is mushrooming. CLOs will neither prosper nor even survive if they fail to take responsibility for the overall learning process within their organizations. The May issue of Chief Learning Officer magazine went online today. Here’s why — and what to do about it.

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Change or die

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

LXB: Come next year, what trend or advice should the CLO ignore at his peril? Cross: The biggest thing for the CLO to do is to stop focusing on programs. People talk about work-life balance, and I think that era is over—it is going to be just life. Don’t kid yourself that your learning needs are just going to take care of themselves.

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Corporations need to catch up on open content

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

togetherLearn and CLO magazine recently conducted a survey on meta-learning. WGU constantly surveys both graduates and their employers to find out if they are lacking in any competencies so they can continue to fine-tune their programs.

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Get Out of the Training Business

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Jay’s column on Effectiveness, CLO magazine , February 2009. The dawn of a new age. If you’re looking for a way to weather the economic downturn, the first thing you need to do is realize that it’s a permanent climate change, not a passing storm. What we are experiencing today is fundamental.