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How to Replace Top-down Training with Collaborative Learning (2)

Jay Cross

Experiential learning takes place in the course of trying to accomplish something, often by mimicking what other people do, by trial and error, and by asking colleagues and experts; this means experiential learning is often informal learning, done outside of the classroom. It must be easy to access and understand.

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Want Results? Champion the Informal

Jay Cross

I first heard about informal learning was at a conference in Orlando, Florida, a dozen years ago. Peter Henschel from the Institute on Learning described how sent anthropologists to an insurance company to investigate how people learned their jobs. Learning happens in social networks. Informal Learning'

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Internet Time Alliance Predictions for 2013

Jay Cross

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.

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How to Replace Top-Down Training with Collaborative Learning (3)

Jay Cross

Work and learning are converging, and as this change happens, the infrastructure of the old corporate learning must go – things like traditional one-size-fit-all in-person training seminars. The next post in this series will address readiness for and benefits of collaborative learning. That word is stupid. itashare.

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Come Together

Jay Cross

The social learning revolution has only just begun. 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. The problem? The goal is to create constant teaching moments.

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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

The 50,000 foot view of what’s going on in social networks and informal learning has changed very little In the last five years. In yesterday’s presentation for Collaborative Learning 04, we asked “In business culture, where’s the pendulum this year?&#. To everything there is a season.

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Co-creation

Jay Cross

Informal Learning – the other 80%. “learning (co-creation of knowledge)&#. “If we look at learners positively, we see that their learning creates new knowledge. The “Community&# topic turned out to cover many potential topics: collaboration. learning with peers. informal learning.