Jay Cross

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How to Replace Top-Down Training with Collaborative Learning (4)

Jay Cross

Assessing the cost/benefit of experiential learning is like asking for a cost/benefit of your telephone connections. As one pundit put it, “The ROI of social networking is being in business a few years from now.”. Hierarchical and network-era (2012) companies Collaborative. You can’t live without it.

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

Jay Cross

They have set up social networks for alumni and help them keep up with new developments. Workers value social learning (collaboration, networking, and conversations) and informal learning (community membership, Internet search, blogs, curated content, and self-study). Many alumni are future customers.

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How to replace top-down training with collaborative learning (1)

Jay Cross

Businesses around the world are transforming into extended enterprise networks but their training departments are stuck in the previous century. x what’s broken, let’s imagine what ideal corporate learning would look like if we could start over from scratch. The Twenty-First Century Corporation. In the pursuit of trying to ?x

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The Coherent Organization

Jay Cross

The underlying concept is that 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. The three of us believe that learning is work and work is 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. Many traditional-thinking organisations will waste a lot of time and energy trying to track social interventions in the hope that they can control and manage “social learning”. 2013 will be a great year.

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Want Results? Champion the Informal

Jay Cross

CLOs tell me the stuff that keeps them awake at night is that now the realization that learning is social, mobile, and collaborative. Learning happens in social networks. As for metrics, the appropriate metrics for learning are “Are they doing the job better?” It happens in the course of work.

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Hot topics in Working Smarter for the past 12 months

Jay Cross

How to use Twitter for Social Learning - Social Media for Working & Learning , March 20, 2010. Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles - Tony Karrer , March 24, 2010. Flipboard and Paper.li: Social news curation hits the tipping point - Ross Dawson , August 30, 2010. Charles Jennings , May 28, 2010.