Jay Cross

MARCH 8, 2011

Dan Pontefract had a great post on TrainingWreck about the inadequacy of the Kirkpatrick model in a world where learning is increasingly collaborative and networked. Value network analysis could yield economic information that social network analysis fails to cover. In brief, the Kirkpatrick levels are good for events, not processes.

Social Networks 65

Social Networks Evalution Social Network Analysis Informal Learning 65

Jay Cross

JANUARY 31, 2010

Subtitled Informal Learning in the Cloud , this edition focuses on social learning and implementing web 2.0 What can we do to improve this informal learning?…23. Informal Learning …36. Genesis of the Informal Learning Poster …37. Social media for collaboration…110. technology. Cheat-sheet.

Informal Learning 47

Informal Learning Informal Social Pattern 47

Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2009

It beats threshing a barrage of chaff to locate the kernels of information you want. The Informal Learning Flow aggregator is beginning to take social signals into account. Hot List on Informal Learning. collaboration. You can harness the same technology to focus searches for information. Enter smart aggregation.

Informal Learning 37

Informal Learning Informal Oasis OER 37

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Work Smarter: Informal Learning Enters the Cloud. collaboration, 3, 4, 10, 15, 24, 29, 46, 50, 52, 54, 74, 76, 82, 83, 87, 88, 89, 90, 93, 94, 101, 103, 121, 122, 124, 137, 138, 139, 140, 161, 163, 172, 188. Informal Learning , 2, 6, 33, 41, 97, 98, 103, 104, 126, 127, 129, 179, 183, 187. ADDIE, 22, 23, 102, 106. Skinner, 66.

Informal 37

Informal Brandon Hall Wiki Content 37

Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2012

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 From Social Learning to Workforce Collaboration - Jane Hart , February 23, 2012. In Memoriam: Tim M.

Social Networks 64

Social Networks Doc Enterprise 2.0 Social Media 64

Jay Cross

JUNE 10, 2014

They memorize and parrot back explicit information. We also want to make sure this is a place you’ll thrive, so we’ll be looking for signs around your comfort with ambiguity, your bias to action and your collaborative nature.”. It’s the ability to pull together disparate bits of information.”. Informal Learning ITAshare'

Google 70

Google Cognitive Analytics CLO 70

Jay Cross

MARCH 5, 2012

Successful businesses insure that software and tools are available for such things as bookmarking reference information, collaborating on tasks, searching organizational content, recording knowledge for peer learning, reinforcing of key concepts, locating experts, accessing outside information, and connecting with customers and partners.

Training 67

Training Train Pattern Network 67

Jay Cross

APRIL 10, 2010

Several large LMS companies added “informal learning&# to their sales shticks this week. One says “All documents accessed can be tracked as informal learning events.&# (Documents are events?) Related: Informal Snake Oil. What really is informal learning? Tags: Bullshit Informal Learning. platform.

Confluence 65

Confluence Jive Enterprise 2.0 Xyleme 65

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The article describes The Coherent Organization , the Internet Time Alliance ‘s shorthand for a company where individuals are aligned with the organizational mission and information flows from outside in and back again in ways that accelerate work. You need to optimize participation in all of them.

Organization 84

Organization Social Networks Communities of Practice Sun 84

Jay Cross

JANUARY 11, 2012

and Working Smarter suggest such techniques as putting the customer in charge, harvesting collective intelligence, self-organizing teams, speedy cycle times, collaboration, transparency, openness, agility, trusting one another, responding to feedback, bottom-up organization, peer learning, web 2.0 culture, and optimizing networks.

Social Networks 68

Social Networks Business Enterprise 2.0 Compliance Training 68

Jay Cross

AUGUST 12, 2012

As an early true believer in performance support, I’ve always favored organizing information so people can benefit from it. That map has evolved into a treasured online resource on collaborative software. I’ve talked with curation gurus. This recent presentation goes further and is in the same spirit.

Education 72

Education LearnTrends Wiki Toolkit 72

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

the emergence of network based, collaborative, social, informal and community-led approaches to learning) and Simulations & Serious Games (being able to seriously use these advanced learning tools at strategic scale). Finally fulfilling the dream has me totally jazzed. EdgeX aims to be disruptive.

Research 61

Research Education OER Conference 61

Jay Cross

MARCH 6, 2012

equip the learning & development staff with skills of performance consulting, business analysis, community- building, collaboration, and social media. build staff’s social media skills for collaborating, filtering, sharing, and learning. Build the framework for integrating learning and business. Make the vision a reality.

Corporate Learning 75

Corporate Learning Social Networks Case Study Taxonomy 75

Jay Cross

MARCH 16, 2010

Peter Casebow in Edinburgh and Jay Cross in Berkeley chat for four minutes on how Internet Time Alliance collaborates and how Good Practice supports management development. Tags: Informal Learning The Future. 4 minute intro. How Managers Learn. Good Practice. Internet Time Alliance. There’s more to come.

YouTube 43

YouTube Internet Tagging Informal Learning 43

Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

Not only does it confirm the significant frequency of informal learning, it demonstrates that informal learning shows up in many ways: e-Learning, traditional book study, social learning, and experience.” Finally, here’s a summary of Informal Learning.

Social Networks 36

Social Networks Wiki Summary Social Network Analysis 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Making sense of oceans of information takes a collaborative effort; we’ve got to get together on this. Working in teams, sharing and collaborating across silos and organizations challenge normal ways of work, recruiting, and learning. People will develop more sophisticated means of interpreting reviews and information.

Privacy 68

Privacy IBM Leadership Outsource 68

Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

Today’s world is a kaleidoscope, information is a tsunami, and workers face novel, complex situations every day. They need to provide informal feedback and work debriefs. Activity streams keep people informed in near real time. Collaboration takes hold. I think it’s a legacy from an earlier time. Silos crumble.

Social Networks 62

Social Networks Compliance Training Jive Yammer 62

Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2010

Increasingly, posts about learning will appear in the Informal Learning Blog. Informal Learning Blog. Flows : The babbling brook of new information and news: Internet Time Blog & history. Informal Learning Blog. Informal Flow. Stocks , more timeless information, wisdom, and relationships. Del.icio.us.

Stock 46

Stock Social Bookmarking Brain Internet 46

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Collaboration gets things done and is the most powerful learning tool in the CLO’s playbook. Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards. Come Together, Right Now.

Social Networks 40

Social Networks Wiki IBM Metrics 40

Jay Cross

MARCH 8, 2015

It’s more than informal or social learning. Faced with the enormity of shifting the organization’s culture to pull, social, sharing, open, beta, fault-tolerant, collaborative, and reflective, many CLOs are dabbling with change rather than taking it on whole hog. I call the package Enterprise Learning.

Predictions 36

Predictions Performance Support Enterprise Internet 36

Jay Cross

AUGUST 22, 2015

While cleaning up my office this afternoon, I came up this list of essentials for effective informal learning I wrote a couple of years ago for the ASTD Handbook. Make it drop-dead simple to access people in the know, the lessons of experience, how-to information, and performance support. Make collaboration the norm.

Social Networks 36

Social Networks Mash-up Mashups ASTD 36

Jay Cross

JANUARY 7, 2013

People who know nothing about connectivism or collaborative learning will profit from MOOC’s. Here is what the Principals of the Internet Time Alliance see ahead in 2013: Harold Jarche. Others will try to cram courses onto phones, and continue to miss the bigger picture, increasing their irrelevance.

Internet 63

Internet Predictions Confluence Performance Support 63

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Instead we engage in conversations and collaborative activities that will give you practical information to take back and use in your organization. We have few presentations. We have great food, drink wonderful wine, and make long lasting friends.

Management 42

Management Conference Global Corporate Learning 42

Jay Cross

AUGUST 18, 2013

My Profile contains more information and advice than I am reporting here. None of them gave me as useful information as the MindTime Profile. Brain Science Collaboration The Future' Useful feedback. We’ll look at a composite for the group and talk about how that impacts our roles.

Brain 55

Brain Innovation Ideas Assessment 55

Jay Cross

AUGUST 4, 2009

Work Smarter : Informal Learning in the Cloud. Blurb: Informal learning has entered the cloud. Until recently, the collaboration and learning that fuel the growth of individual and group braininess took place under the radar. Tags: Informal Learning The Learning Business. by Jay Cross and Friends. Smart companies prosper.

Version 36

Version Brain Exercise Trust 36

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Working smarter draws ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 Example: collaboration. We used this technology together to create a site called Informal Learning Flow. Example: 2006.

Xyleme 65

Xyleme Social Networks Theory Firewalls 65

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The social business captures value through capturing tacit information, fostering collaboration & discovery, filtering information flow & finding patterns, and transforming exception processing & making processes resilient. This parallels the situation with informal learning and eLearning. Balancing the load.

Social Networks 68

Social Networks Network Social Network Wiki 68

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Organizations and their people are members of many different types of networks, for example, communities of practice, the company social network, and close-knit collaborative work teams. Collaboration is replacing command and control. Training departments push training, while workers search and ask for the information they need.

Social Networks 51

Social Networks Social Network Virtual World Communities of Practice 51

Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2012

In its place enters social and informal learning hubs like on-demand content, live online discussions, wikis and forums, and searchable content archives. A diverse learning library, made up of videos, FAQs and links to relevant information. Choosing and subscribing to streams of information I’m interested in. Others are not.

Social Networks 76

Social Networks Collaboration Collaborative Learning Diversity Training 76

Jay Cross

APRIL 30, 2011

My work helping clients work smarter generally involves informal learning, collaboration, knowledge-sharing, organization development, and nurturing learning ecosystems. I rely on concepts from design, psychology, consumer marketing, network theory, social science, and media.

Toys 65

Toys Journal Theory Enterprise 65

Jay Cross

MAY 31, 2011

5 Reasons Why Activity Streams Will Save You From Information Overload - Luis Suarez , May 4, 2011. Social learning for collaborative work - Harold Jarche , May 18, 2011. Ridiculous research findings on informal learning - Jay Cross , May 15, 2011. Information: What am I missing? - George Siemens , May 30, 2011.

Social Networks 58

Social Networks Information Overload Social Media PENS 58

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 The Soft Skills of Collaboration and The Social Enterprise - Luis Suarez , September 14, 2011.

Social Networks 59

Social Networks Social Network Diversity Training Cognitive 59

Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2010

On the way home from the Swiss eLearning Conference, my mind was racing after three days of talking with interesting people and spreading the informal learning gospel. Both must keep workers abreast of an onslaught of change and mountains of information. The only thing new is the label. I jotted down ideas until my battery ran out.

Micro-Learning 46

Micro-Learning Knowledge Worker Attitudes CLO 46

Jay Cross

APRIL 7, 2009

It’s called collaboration software, and you should be using it. A recent study of 600 resellers revealed a “high demand&# for a collaboration-software program called SharePoint. Even after 15 years in the technology business, I found myself at a loss to explain (let alone justify) these sorts of collaboration tools.

Social Networks 36

Social Networks SharePoint Long Tail Drupal 36

Jay Cross

MARCH 30, 2010

Working Smarter: Informal Learning in the Cloud by Jay Cross and Friends. Jay, with his colleagues in the Internet Time Alliance, has recently produced the 2010 version of his “unbook,” Working Smarter: Informal Learning in the Cloud. Learning Solutions Magazine. By Jane Bozarth. March 30, 2010. Convention and controversy.

Metrics 43

Metrics Performance Support Internet Twitter 43

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

You could do a search-and-replace, putting “informal learning&# where they write “collaboration,&# and you’d end up with a practice guide to socially mediated learning. The answer is not more and more layers of a matrix structure or yet another collaborative technology.

Social Networks 36

Social Networks Social Network Network Social 36

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

You could do a search-and-replace, putting “informal learning&# where they write “collaboration,&# and you’d end up with a practice guide to socially mediated learning. The answer is not more and more layers of a matrix structure or yet another collaborative technology.

Social Networks 36

Social Networks Social Network Network Social 36