Jay Cross

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What About the Future?

Jay Cross

Individual in control, competence development through monitoring / automated feedback, high talent mobility, self compliance (data to proof compliance). Get those learning games online. Some people predict the end of jobs and corporations as we know them. Might this be where we end up? It could be chaotic.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

Training used to be for novices, aspiring managers & leaders, technicians, and certification for compliance. What’s important is tacit knowledge, the know-how that’s taught by experience as opposed to the know-what that is written in books or a syllabus. Today the rate of change makes us all novices at something.

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

Jay Cross

Aside from compliance training and new product introductions, most training focused on novices – either newhires who needed orientation or workers mastering a new skill or subject. Stanford psychologist Phil Zimbardo says that by the time the average boy reaches the age of 21, he has spent at least 10,000 hours playing video games.

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eLearning is not the answer

Jay Cross

eLearning is an incremental improvement, not a game-changer. For example regulations specify push learning for compliance training. Well-executed eLearning makes learning more accessible but it’s rarely going to double or triple one’s return on investment. Natural (&# pull&# ) learning has the real profit potential.

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eLearning is not the answer

Jay Cross

eLearning is an incremental improvement, not a game-changer. For example regulations specify push learning for compliance training. Well-executed eLearning makes learning more accessible but it’s rarely going to double or triple one’s return on investment. Natural (&# pull&# ) learning has the real profit potential.

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

At this point in the 21st Century, the game is changing once again. For example regulations specify push learning for compliance training. Yesterday’s best practices were the appropriate prescription for curing tomorrow’s ills. That works when the world is stable, and things remain the same over time.