Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

When I signed up for Spaces for Interaction: An Online Conversation about Improving the Traditional Conference , I didn’t appreciate how timely the topic would become. Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field. Is it a Conference?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Everybody knows about network effects: the value of a network increases exponentially with the addition of each new node. When people are actively pulling in learning resources rather than taking what’s pushed at them, the value of the network goes turbo, an effect the authors call the collaboration curve. Rethinking conferences.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Sometimes it’s more effective to imbed the knowledge in the work than to plant it in the head of the worker. This morning I took part in a conference call focused on now might we use the precepts of agile programming in general (non-IT) business settings. Whether of not they learn is an entirely different matter.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2006

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 12, 2010

Moreover, Cross has keynoted such conferences as Online Educa (Berlin), I-KNOW (Austria), Research Innovations in Learning (U.S.), Cross: Formal learning can be somewhat effective when things don’t change much and the world is predictable. You can learn a lot about cause and effect by interviewing a sample of workers in depth.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Not so long ago, the logic of cause and effect could explain how the world worked. When you run the numbers, you discover that plain old learning in corporate workshops and courses is not cost- effective, even if you had the lead time to do it. Other things being equal, if you did X, you received Y as a result. Life is for learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 25, 2008

Fast Company describes how Cisco is implementing an “unprecedented forward-looking strategy to unleash what it’s calling a ‘human network effect’ both on and off the Cisco campus.&# How Cisco’s CEO John Chambers is Turning the Tech Giant Socialist , by: Ellen McGirt.

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