Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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May – June 15 Great Ones

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

in 90-Minute Segments - Workplace Learning Today , May 18, 2010. Why bash the LMS? Edfutures – How to collaborate and not lead. Using Twitter to deliver a collaborative keynote , May 23, 2010. LMS is no longer the centre of the universe , May 4, 2010. The Importance of Elgg in the Future of Learning , May 6, 2010.

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What will change in 2010?

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Or you could collaborate simultaneously. Wave is a platform that both facilitates collaboration and documents it. Just as the Google Search Appliance enables companies to find needles in haystacks behind their firewalls, Wave is likely to replace lots of wikis and content management systems.

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Overcoming Bipolar Thinking

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Delivered in courses or workshops or semesters or degree programs, episodes of formal learning always come to an end, although learning never does. Completion of a formal learning experience is generally celebrated by awarding a grade, certificate, degree, checkmark in an LMS or other symbol. It’s like riding a bus.

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Informal learning from the horse’s mouth

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

The issue we’re really addressing is whether the learning is mainly formal (imposed) or informal (sought). Three hallmarks of formal learning are: a curriculum, a schedule and recognition upon completion (even if only a checkmark in an LMS). Coach: What are examples of offline informal learning? Jay: Learning is social.

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Get Out of the Training Business

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

As networks continue to subvert hierarchy, successful organizations will embrace respect for the individual, flexibility and adaptation, openness and transparency, sharing and collaboration, honesty and authenticity, and immediacy. We’re scrapping the LMS posthaste. All of our energies will go into peer-to-peer, self-service learning.

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8 Dirty Words

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Learning taints the conversation. Better to speak of collaboration or boosting brain power. I changed the name of my new book from Informal Learning in the Cloud to Working Smarter. Most job-related learning is informal, and there are enormous opportunities to make it better. Training is something you do to someone.

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Learning in three dimensions

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

My pal Tony O’Driscoll asked me to help spread the word about the upcoming 3D Training Learning and Collaboration (3DTLC) conference in Washington DC next month. Tony is hoping to kick off wide-spread adoption of virtual worlds in the enterprise. It is very rare to get in on the ground-floor of an emerging industry.

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