Jay Cross

JUNE 13, 2012

Next month I’ll be offering an experiential workshop on Informal Learning through Jane Hart’s Social Learning Center. Form an on-going community of practice. By the close of the workshop, you will be able to… understand what informal learning is, how it works, why it’s important.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2022

Harold Jarche’s elegantly crafted announcement: The Internet Time Alliance Memorial Award , in memory of Jay Cross , is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work.

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Diversity Training Communities of Practice Internet Community 163

Matrix

AUGUST 5, 2021

To counteract that, it’s important to build communities of practice. Even if it takes effort and excellent organizational skills to set up communities of practice for geographically dispersed employees, the benefits are worth it. Read more: The differences between social professional networks and communities of practice.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 15, 2019

I’ve argued that the community of practice should determine the curriculum to be a member of that community. . “Choice is most productive when it is scaffolded by an organizationally-curated framework.” This can be achieved using AI-curated real-time briefings.” ” Count me skeptical.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 12, 2020

The domain’s likely built upon some predecessor concepts that may be familiar, but can a motivated and self-effective learner get this in a reasonable amount of time, or will they benefit from a learning experience? Until schools also develop effective communication and collaboration skills, L&D would be useful.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2014

Key performance indicators for social and informal learning identify knowledge hubs and lead to better results. Just as social learning and technology have modernized the way learning occurs in companies today, they also have made a mark on the key performance indicators learning leaders should capture and measure.

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Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When you’re designing learning, don’t overlook the importance of informal learning. This is learning that takes place outside of the classroom or the eLearning activity. In fact, we typically learn more from informal learning than from formal learning experiences. Build a Learning Culture.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. Informal Learning 2.0. Some cutting-edge corporations are adopting a new bundle of practices — let’s call them informal learning 2.0 — in order to improve operating efficiency by: • Slashing time to performance. Increasing customer loyalty though learning.

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Instancy

MARCH 9, 2023

Creating Communities of Practice Instancy’s social learning tools help learners to create communities of practice based on their interests. Each learning community may have its own unique site containing a content library, discussion forums, wiki knowledge base, polls, and more.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

An instructional designer by profession who started her career anlayzing learner needs, creating micro-design documents, writing story-boards and discussing the nitty-gritty of course navigation with visual designers, I have long been interested in the power of social, collaborative and informal learning.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 18, 2006

Great post by Harold Jarche - Informal Learning and Performance Technology responding to my post - Informal Learning - Let's Get Real. Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g., Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g.,

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Informal Learning begins with these words: “THIS IS A BOOK about knowledge workers, twenty-first-century business, and informal learning. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning. Most teaming about how to do a job is informal. “Training&# ?

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Web Courseworks

AUGUST 24, 2017

In the Learning & Development world there has been a lot of buzz recently around content curation and the skills associated with being a curator. Most of this activity has been the domain of the membership department and the delivery is almost always on the “informal learning” side of the continuum.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

More effective, sustainable learning occurs in the normal course of doing the work. This informal learning is facilitated by coaching, mentoring, communities-of-practice, experiments, action-learning and any of a myriad of other methods including the various forms of social media.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Here are the most popular posts on the Informal Learning Blog in 2009. Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning. T o implement social/informal learning infrastructure projects, learning and development professionals need to shift their focus from learning to earning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 5, 2012

One of these posts appears in Jane Hart’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (e.g., training) and informal learning experiences (e.g., communities of practice). Helping workers learn continuously on the job.

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Social Networks Culture Organization Create 262

E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When we worry about the status of their credentials or lose sleep over their completion rates, we’re perpetuating an out-dated paradigm of education based on formal learning. I prefer to see MOOCs through the lens of informal learning which values the learning over its bureaucracy. The 3 mindsets of m-learning.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Or will work itself subsume learning enabled by a transformed L&D / facilitators / coaches / mentors and the "right" organizational culture? How do we help organizations see that social and informal learning is not a new and fancy way to learn but an essential requirement in a complex, rapidly changing, and uber connected world?

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Learning can only happen when a child is interested. To embrace informal learning we must empower learners to play a central and proactive part in the process. Similarly, formal learning can help shape and direct informal learning. SUPPORT AN ENGAGED, GROWTH MINDSET. CREATE REAL VALUE ON SOCIAL PLATFORMS.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay’s calling is to create happier, more productive workplaces.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 22, 2019

Sometimes we as learning professionals don’t need to have “the answer” for the learner. Sometimes we instead help learners connect with people who can support their learning experience. Here are some ways we can do that: Create communities of practice that either meet in person or virtually.

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Matrix

MARCH 22, 2018

A sound L&D strategy can mean many things: from face-to-face formal courses to mentoring relationships to full-featured learning management systems and all the technology that helps people share ideas and learn. But it must also support all the informal learning that happens organically in the workplace.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s not about putting a 60 minute elearning program on a smart phone – it’s about putting pieces into place and providing opps for continuous learning. What are the ingredients of building a Community of Practice? How do you measure the impact of informal, social learning? Social learning is something you DO.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

Compare to other alternatives (formal/informal learning). I actually record valuable informal conversations in the wiki, before the value of those just were lost over time.&#. Examples (from The Social Enterprise Blog ): Caterpillar 3000 communities of practice = $75 million saved as of 5 years ago. It is opaque.

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The Learning Circuits

MAY 2, 2006

I'm currently preparing a project for European funding aiming at the development of communities of practice as a structured way of fostering and deepening transfer and sharing of skills, knowledge and competency. Communities of practice are part of the response to the need to encourage informal learning and perpetuate its results.

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Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

We’re seeing a more interactive model of learning. Think about how you learn a new software program. Communities of practice , a term coined by Institute for Research on Learning staff. Learning is a condition of continuing membership in that community. It’s always informal. Barn raising.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 2, 2015

One of these posts appears in Jane Hart ’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (e.g., training) and informal learning experiences (e.g., communities of practice). Helping workers learn continuously on the job.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

community of practice. Posted in Informal Learning, Learning Communities. Tags: Informal Learning Learning Communities learning learntrends. I wanted to actually participate in the chat and watch Twitter too, and I couldn’t juggle all of it at the same time.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay’s calling is to create happier, more productive workplaces.

Blended Learning 113

Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 113

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 22, 2013

I decided to take this on, thinking about an org that was already in operation, with it’s goals, processes, and practices, and what I might do if I were to come in and get it going (with the support of the executive team to do what I thought was right). Thus, any created job aids would be appropriately located.

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Instilled

JULY 2, 2019

Capture Tacit Knowledge and Build Communities of Practice. Hyper-connected learners aren’t just connected to learning technology. With easy access to learning platforms and other technologies that support collaboration , L&D teams can foster social learning and encourage the creation and growth of communities of practice.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2010

Image via Wikipedia "Collaboration is a process through which people who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for the solution that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible." ~ Anecdote And informal learning is hinged on collaboration.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 3, 2011

That means more than 16,000 videos were contributed by members of the Angry Birds Community of Practice. The clear distinction between the Angry Birds community and the average workplace community-of-practice is obvious: the AB folks are making money for producing content.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Another theory derived from social constructivism has been proposed by Lave and Wenger (1991) who argue that the formation of communities of practice can explain much of the informal learning that occurs for example in the workplace.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Creativity is a conversation--a tension--between individuals working on individual problems, and the professional communities they belong to. In a flattened learning system, there are fewer experts and more fellow learners on paths that may cross.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

The emergent nature of MOOCs can have interesting outcomes: They can enable the formation of Communities of Interests (CoIs), which can evolve into Communities of Practices (CoPs) if participants are keen on building the domain knowledge and practices.

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Diversity Training Blended Learning Skills Learner 154

Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Teaching and learning practices benefit from the collective knowledge that social technology provides. Social media practices can facilitate new forms of collaborative knowledge construction. It encourages civic engagement in broader communities of practice.

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