Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

When the book on informal learning came out, nay-sayers attacked me as some kind of loony. QUESTION: How do you know that informal learning works? ANSWER: How did you learn to walk and talk? How did you learn to kiss? QUESTION: How can you measure what people learn? Can informal learning do any worse?

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2012

It’s time to vote for your ten favorite learning tools. The trends tell the story of how online learning is changing. The past five years bear witness to major shifts, from authoring Push content to discovering via Pull and learning in communities. What is a “learning tool”? I was the first participant. .

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 25, 2015

WHAT KEEPS WORKERS FROM LEARNING ONLINE? 41% find current online learning not relevant to their need. 26% find learning content uninspiring. 22% learning objectives are not clear. WHAT DO LEARNERS VALUE HIGHLY FOR LEARNING? 49% live online learning. 47% self-paced e-learning. Fascinating data.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Work Smarter: Informal Learning Enters the Cloud. Chief Learning Officer, 71, 78, 107, 192. Chief Learning Officer magazine, 192. e-learning, 93, 147, 170, 171, 172. Emergent Learning, 170. formal learning, 27, 33, 41, 100, 104, 105, 127. Learning Light, 192. learning mixer, 104, 105.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Today I attended two learning events in Paris, in the morning the iLearning Forum hosted by Sally Ann Moore and this afternoon Expo-Langues , the conference where Peter Isackson and I will be speaking tomorrow morning. One outfit here claimed to deliver social learning experiences on CD-ROM. Buzzwords travel from the U.S.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The price of the pdf version of Real Learning will increase from $2.99 Buy Real Learning here. Table of Contents Bibliography. Learn from experience without 
instructors or classrooms. 
. Learn faster and remember more. Embrace openness and learn out loud. Learn to be the person you aspire to be.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

Six years ago I wrote Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance. This is the first in a series of posts about what informal learning is and how to put it into practice. Synopsis of Informal Learning. The book made the case that most learning about how to do a job is informal.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 27, 2015

It’s time once again to contribute to Jane Hart’s annual survey of tools for learning. My top tools for learning are: Experience. I have an extensive library and am in the midst of looking back through to refresh what I’ve learned from them. You really learn something when you share it with someone else.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

But I have a question about this: Why isn’t anyone talking about learning networks? Neither McAfee nor IBM nor Weinberger nor Hamel talks about networks for learning. This parallels the situation with informal learning and eLearning. Networks were made for learning. Learning originally meant finding the right path.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2012

It’s not that seasoned and elder employees weren’t learning; we all learn all the time. Rather, they weren’t learning as well as they might. HR and training departments overlooked experienced employees because they learn experientially, from stretch assignments and mentors rather than from courses and workshops.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Learning is social. So why are so many of the forays into learning technology anti-social? Joe has been marrying people, technology, and learning since the early days. Joe’s take on learning is a good fit with mine: Learning is a uniquely human experience. You explore the content together.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Judy Brown is talking about mobile learning: it’s more that eLearning lite. M-learning : Pervasive. When is learning needed? When learning for the first time. When wanting to learn more. Modules for assessment, content, mobility, performance. Laptops are mobile but not in Judy’s book. Recordings.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 31, 2010

Subtitled Informal Learning in the Cloud , this edition focuses on social learning and implementing web 2.0 What can we do to improve this informal learning?…23. Rethinking Learning in Organizations…30. Informal Learning …36. Genesis of the Informal Learning Poster …37. technology.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2009

The Informal Learning Flow aggregator is beginning to take social signals into account. As Tony Karrer explains , we are using what is happening: with the content out in the network. on the eLearning Learning. Together these social signals indicate that the content is likely of higher quality (or at least of higher interest).

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Stephen Downes has posted a brilliant, encyclopedic paper on The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On. It’s follow-up to one of my favorite Stephen essays, The Future of Online Learning (1998). On my wiki, I maintain a list of two dozen seminal documents in learning. It’s the old issue of the installed base.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 29, 2015

In 2002, ASTD and I introduced a blog, Learning Circuits Blog, about eLearning and networking. > Learning Circuits was ASTD’s first foray into modern learning. Live conferencing and lecture, maybe, but not for mere content delivery or interactive learning. I was an early and frequent contributor.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 11, 2013

This appeared on SRI-Business Consulting’s Learning on Demand page in April 2004. eLearning to address the learning challenges of a distributed. Self-directed learning is more effective. create learning programs for customers and. More that people who learn together bond. . . Tie learning to. Organization.

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Compliance Training Virtual Classroom Low Cost Blended Learning 41

Jay Cross

JULY 22, 2015

, is for all those people we’ve made responsible for their own learning. explains self-assessment, setting goals, dealing with feeds and flows, improving retention, curation, working out loud, social learning, and more. reveals how to: Learn from experience. Save time by accelerating how you learn. No classrooms.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Today at Learn Trends , I demonstrated my ability to screw up everything technical within reach. Harold Jarche, Clark Quinn, Jane Hart, and I had planned to lead a session at noon today to explain the thinking we’ve gone through to develop a lightweight, turn-key social learning platform. Joni: ‘Life is for learning.’

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

I sensed that learning and knowledge management were converging and invited bloggers form both sides to get together at the Tidehouse to share viewpoints and guzzle beer. If you’re into meta-learning, you should track what’s going on there. Corporate learning and KM are both about getting the job done.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 22, 2011

A large, traditional LMS vendor has put a new front on their website that proclaims “80% of learning is informal. Alongside this news is a video of a customer who explains he loves the vendor because of their ability to support old-style, formal learning. it enables them to push content to instructors. Nurture it.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 13, 2013

These in-house programs would: Move the bulk of learning to the workplace. Emphasize experiential over academic learning. Assess learning through demonstrating the skill in lieu of paper and pencil testing. Use OER, YouTube, and other online media to present mainstream content. Most learning is experiential.

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Jay Cross

JULY 29, 2015

I concluded that: Flipping conference presentations can vastly improve learning outcomes. Events should focus on nurturing the L&D community of practice before content. The cliché is that you learn more in the hallways than in the classrooms. The traditional building block of formal learning at conferences is a session.

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Jay Cross

MAY 5, 2015

I slipstream new content into the book continuously. In Informal Learning , I told the story of a dog who would scatter his dinner all over the room so he’d have the thrill of hunting it down. My topic is learning for yourself. DIY learning. If you’re that puppy, you might enjoy reading a book in progress.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 12, 2012

No, I don’t buy it all but step by step, this is a believable scenario for the elimination of colleges as we’ve known them.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 12, 2012

The first URL I opened was a presentation by Robin Good on Content Curation and Education that Robin had shared at Emerge2012. You navigate your way through the content the curator/presenter has set up for you. I didn’t think there was much for me to learn about curation that I didn’t already know. Or archive.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 16, 2013

For the classic rat-race employee, the next promotion, a new house, a new car is supposed to bring contentment. Happiness can be learned. Usually it doesn’t work. After a temporary jolt of joy, life returns to the less-than-satisfactory norm. Jay Cross ‘s insight: But of course. The secret is out.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 16, 2012

Then we watched a video of the skit of Father Guido Sarducci describing the “Five Minute University,” where in five minutes you learn what the average college graduate remembers five years after graduation. Clearly, they’d had to learn a lot since graduation. Clearly, they’d had to learn a lot since graduation. Yes and no.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

And here’s my review of Online Learning 2001. For those who do attend, the backchannel keeps the content alive. Mobile learning has crossed the chasm. A member of the audience at the panel session asked how to build a learning strategy. Mobile learning is inevitable because mobile business is inevitable.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 17, 2013

Informal learning, 702010, complexity, amygdala learning, eLearning, and more. The content’s not bad — there’s just too damn much of it! This is a recording of a two-hour session with Prof Curt Bonk at Indiana University. Unless you have a lot of time on your hands or are a Jay-junkie, I wouldn’t bother.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Access to content, arranged logically. Admission to content without any restriction. I was impressed how they could use free text responses to qualify the progress of my learning. Opportunity to learn, free, go at my own pace, take or stop when I want. N/A – still learning. Ability to move at own pace.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 7, 2013

The Google+ Learning in Organizations Community is up to 240 members. Last month, I asked “What books would you recommend to someone who’s new to organizational learning and wants a feel for what’s going on?” Learning to Plan-And Planning to Learn: Donald N. The Business of Learning: David L.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

I don’t talk much about training or learning any more. You can train people but they may or may not learn. Learning is better than training, but learning is not enough to make sure the job gets done. Moreover, people often fail to put what they learn into practice. It may or may not involve learning.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I’m still learning about what makes for lasting happiness, but here’s the overall prescription. Do these things and I assure you, you’ll be more content with your life. I don’t make any money from our Retreat; neither does Kevin. My topic this year was bringing emotion into the workplace. Relationships.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 22, 2011

Those of us who work in the field of learning are accustomed to dealing with managers who think that learning’s solely a matter of herding people into a room to listen to an authority spout content. They don’t appreciate that learning’s a process that can be planned, tweaked, and reframed.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 15, 2011

We’re offering the session to set the stage for two unworkshops that Urs Frei and I will moderate in Zurich early in 2012: January 9 13:30-16:00, Creating Content for Learning on the Web. January 10, 8:15–14:00, Learning and Development in 2012 and Beyond. Preliminary information is here.

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Jay Cross

JULY 29, 2012

In this week’s ExtraCurricular, you’ll learn how to cultivate great ideas from new Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, win $1,000 for your best design, and learn how a student just like you is succeeding with what she learned on Udemy. Learn How to Cultivate Great Ideas with Marissa Mayer. Take This FREE Course.

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