Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Workshop on putting informal learning to work

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I’d leading a half-day workshop on how to implement informal learning the day before Online Educa in Berlin. Organisations are finding huge benefits in getting concrete about informal learning, social learning and self-service learning. How does your organisation stack up? Prerequisite Knowledge.

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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 Cross is a champion of informal learning (and author of the definitive book on the topic), Web 2.0, By Rex Davenport.

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Corporations need to catch up on open content

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

If you want to perform a proper string quartet, they noted, you can’t cut out the cellist nor can you squeeze in more performances by playing the music faster. togetherLearn and CLO magazine recently conducted a survey on meta-learning. People may harm the company brand should employees reveal too much information. -

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Change or die

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Learning Executives Briefing : Performance is a wonderful yardstick, and the world is still somewhat governed by accountants. Formal and informal never exist in isolation. 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.

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Get Out of the Training Business

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Jay’s column on Effectiveness, CLO magazine , February 2009. We are shifting our focus from training to performance. We’re setting up a corporate FAQ on a wiki to capture and distribute the information we once received from people who are no longer with us. The dawn of a new age. Everything has a price tag.

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New skills for learning professionals

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?&#. consulting / coaching acumen (as well as learning acumen) that is focused on performance problems and outcomes.

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