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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

Excerpts from the Best of T+D | 2007 - 2009 Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : As knowledge workers, we are like actors--only as good as our last performance. Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Professionals immeresed in communities of practice have a larger zone of proximal development.

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The Working Smarter Fieldbook: A Glimpse and Some Thoughts

ID Reflections

The book is a synthesis of years of collective experience, know-how, knowledge and deep passion for improving and enabling human performance. Tags: Jane Hart Jay Cross Management Instructional design Business Jon Husband Harold Jarche Clark Quinn wirearchy informal learning.

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JSB on the roots of informal learning

Jay Cross

Informal Learning begins with these words: “THIS IS A BOOK about knowledge workers, twenty-first-century business, and informal learning. Back in California, Peter and I met at IRL to talk further about informal learning, communities of practice, anthropological research, and learning as engagement.

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Global digital tribe

Learning with e's

If you are immersed in technology mediated communication, there are no apparent barriers to membership of your community of practice. It is your virtual community. It is tribal because the global online community exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional, territorial tribal practice.

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Centring on strengths at core of self-directed learning approach

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

One survey has shown that self-directed learning is three times more important in helping knowledge workers become proficient on the job than company-provided training. Tags: metalearning. However, organizations don’t have to leave learning entirely up to chance, according to Cross.

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Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009. Online Pedagogy Delicious Tags Now Available - WISE Pedagogy , April 22, 2009. Social Learning and Communities of Practice , June 4, 2009. Tags: Best. Learning for the 21st Century - Informal Learning , December 17, 2008.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

Practical ways of influencing educational needs, as well as enterprise strategies, are highlighted as the solutions for knowledge worker evolution are considered. People already share knowledge within the enterprise. Many government organizations are struggling to figure out how they can practically apply Web 2.0

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