Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2012

The past five years bear witness to major shifts, from authoring Push content to discovering via Pull and learning in communities. This could be a tool you use for teaching, training or creating learning content/solutions for others, and/or a tool you use for your own personal or professional learning.

Skype 54

Skype Tools Yammer Yahoo 54

Jay Cross

JULY 22, 2015

No training department. It’s learning to be all you can be rather than amassing more content. The content will always be fresher. the table of contents and an overview of The Aha! is about how to learn for yourself. No classrooms. No instructors. Little in the way of theory. Just stuff that works. I expect Aha!

Summary 36

Summary Version Theory Exercise 36

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 27, 2015

This article describes the CLO of Kaplan as he adapts to a world where employees can route around learning to find their own content. Learner-created content presents a challenge to CLOs: they want to control it. Learner-created content is out of control by definition. The article returns to employee-created or shared content.

Wiki 36

Wiki Kaplan CLO Easygenerator 36

Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

It’s all a matter of learning, but it’s not the sort of learning that is the province of training departments, workshops, and classrooms. ” While the summary skips over the primary content, fifty ways to learn better and work smarter, it catches the spirit of the book rather well.

Social Networks 36

Social Networks Wiki Summary Social Network Analysis 36

Jay Cross

APRIL 17, 2012

The video can provide content in small, digestible pieces. First, we see that video content is engaging to students — many of whom grew up on YouTube — and easy for instructors to produce. Training departments put PowerPoint presentations on their intranets and acted as if people could learn from them. It didn’t work.

Corporate Learning 81

Corporate Learning Corporate eLearning Lecture Learning 81

Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

Companies continued to put almost all of the training budget into schooling novices. Nonetheless, most corporate training departments are modeled on schools. They provide top-down classes and rigid content. They let non-training learning fall between the cracks. They know that traditional training is ineffective.

Informal Learning 66

Informal Learning Informal Trust ROI 66

Jay Cross

JULY 29, 2015

Events should focus on nurturing the L&D community of practice before content. The Flipped Conference session differs from the Flipped Classroom in that content delivery takes place at the conference, not before. This is an overdose of content. Community First! A typical breakout session is 45 minutes to an hour long.

Conference 36

Conference Social Networks Masie eLearning Guild 36

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. Training often fizzles. Learning is better than training, but learning is not enough to make sure the job gets done. Working Smarter Daily displays the most relevant and interesting content from sites I choose.

Xyleme 65

Xyleme Social Networks Theory Firewalls 65

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Access to content, arranged logically. Admission to content without any restriction. I think MOOCs can be a tremendous tool and advantage for motivated and interested learners – I’m less sanguine about there potential for required or mandated training. In corporate learning, many companies want customized training.

Free 41

Free Business Asynchronous Theory 41

Jay Cross

APRIL 10, 2010

Xyleme ’s Dawn Poulos points out: If we look beyond our training silos for just a bit, we’ll see that that big social implementations are actually taking place outside of the training department. Rarely are these initiatives driven by the training organization.

Confluence 65

Confluence Jive Enterprise 2.0 Xyleme 65

Jay Cross

JANUARY 11, 2012

They can remain Chief Training Officers and instructors who get novices up to speed, deliver events required by compliance, and run in-house schools. These folks will be increasingly out of step with the times.

Social Networks 68

Social Networks Business Enterprise 2.0 Compliance Training 68

Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

For those who do attend, the backchannel keeps the content alive. Her manager had asked her to create a training course for the iPads they were buying. Content, communicate, computer, capture). For people who can’t attend an event in person, the backchannel provides the next best thing to being there.

Diversity Training 67

Diversity Training Performance Support eLearning Guild Write Blog 67

Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2011

What capabilities does the 21st century training department need? Payback from implementing social networking is collaborative content development and getting input from all sides (Q&A page). The Executive Networks hosts plumbed the audience for questions our presentation had raised.

CLO 46

CLO Network Social Networks Jive 46

Jay Cross

JANUARY 7, 2013

Learning Everywhere: How Mobile Content Strategies are Transforming Training (9781605440170): Chad Udell: Books. It truly is a wonderful introduction to the power of the web and what we as a community can do when we free our content from the shackles of proprietary tooling and embrace the standards of the web and open formats.

Social Media 48

Social Media Organizational Learning Community Guide 48

Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

Most corporations spend most of their training budget on formal learning, despite the fact that most of the learning that goes on is informal. Learning that is more formal has a curriculum: content and objectives that are set by someone other than the learner. The book made the case that most learning about how to do a job is informal.

Informal Learning 48

Informal Learning Informal Enterprise 2.0 iPhone 48

Jay Cross

JANUARY 28, 2011

Many eyed big savings from eliminating instructors entirely. (“Blended learning&# was the rationalization used by companies that found out that people-less training does not work.) Everyone extolled the value of slashing travel and classroom real estate cost.

Social Networks 66

Social Networks Jive Diigo Blended Learning 66

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 18, 2010

As the pieces of companies become densely interconnected, the differences between knowledge management, training, collaborative learning, organization development, internal communication, and social networking fade away. That goes along with providing the freshest thinking and content. The Working Smarter Fieldbook is an unbook.

Social Networks 48

Social Networks Social Network iPad Upgrade 48

Jay Cross

AUGUST 27, 2015

These won’t be on my submission to Jane, because for purposes of the survey: A learning tool is any software or online tool or service that you use either for your own personal or professional learning or for teaching or training. Plus, searching for fresh content puts you in touch with the latest news. It keeps you on your toes.

Tools 36

Tools Freeware PPT Google Docs 36

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Even after people accepted that informal learning is the primary way people learn to do their jobs, few corporate training organizations lifted a finger to do anything about it. To be successful, a social business’s learning function must break out of the humble training department and spread throughout the organizational infrastructure.

Social Networks 68

Social Networks Network Social Network Wiki 68

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Here’s what I was blogging five years ago: When I began writing about eLearning in 1998, some of us felt the training industry had struck gold! Companies licensed “libraries&# of content no one paid attention to. For example regulations specify push learning for compliance training. It didn’t work.

Compliance Training 38

Compliance Training Corporate eLearning eLearning Simulations 38

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Here’s what I was blogging five years ago: When I began writing about eLearning in 1998, some of us felt the training industry had struck gold! Companies licensed “libraries&# of content no one paid attention to. For example regulations specify push learning for compliance training. It didn’t work.

Compliance Training 37

Compliance Training Corporate eLearning eLearning Simulations 37

Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2011

Content Curators - Dan Pontefract , June 13, 2011. Training departments: wake up, smell coffee - Jay Cross , June 29, 2011. Social Business Is Not Rocket Science - The Smart Work Company , June 17, 2011. Your staff are your best advocates - Euen Semple , June 13, 2011. Re-imagining the Book - Jay Cross , June 20, 2011.

Social Media 47

Social Media PKM Enterprise 2.0 IBM 47

Jay Cross

JANUARY 29, 2010

Charles talked about experiential learning, saying “Most learning takes place outside formal training events. Lots of training directors have yet to grasp the concepts of learning through collaboration, the power of social networks, and less is more. Our old models of training can no longer keep up.

Blended Learning 43

Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Social Networks Innovation 43

Jay Cross

JULY 31, 2012

It turns out it can also include the contents of lists. I come not to bury training, only to put it in its place HAROLD JARCHE | TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2012. Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It JAY CROSS | TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2012. It’s not the most intuitive feature. It still works. MORE >> 10 Tweets.

Google Docs 51

Google Docs Doc Social Networks PKM 51

Jay Cross

JANUARY 8, 2010

This will challenge training and L&D departments to the limit, who will realize they need to change their modus operandi, get closer to their stakeholders and become more responsive or cease to be relevant.

Predictions 43

Predictions eLearning Consultant Google Wave Metrics 43

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Moderator (Harold Jarche): traditional training & education has driven much of our self-direction and creativity out of us - need to relearn. Jenna Papakalos: Communities of practice belong to training. Jenna Papakalos: It is training! Mike Rodgers: Does anyone currently use social networking as a form of training.

LearnTrends 40

LearnTrends Instructional Design ADDIE Social Networks 40

Jay Cross

APRIL 3, 2013

Shorthand: conscious self = “I”; unconscious self = “me” Training and preparation are key to any performance. The most important thing about training is that the I comes to trust the Me. The I’s beady eye is there during the training but not during the performance proper. It is thinking before you speak.

Brain 53

Brain Predictions Picture Cognitive 53

Jay Cross

MARCH 28, 2013

Receiving a spurious email without a way to contact the sender and with clearly inappropriate content. By chance, I happen to have met the head of leadership training for AT&T; we spoke on a panel together. Perhaps leadership training could use this as a case study. Half of America’s workforce is disengaged.

Case Study 37

Case Study iPhone Apple Internationalization 37

Jay Cross

AUGUST 12, 2012

Vendors sell training by the course. Courses are usually delivered in the same format regardless of the difficulty or breadth of the content, as for instance the 50-minute classes we endured in school and college. Today, a course is a standard unit of measure of learning. Students complete certain courses to earn a degree.

Games 66

Games Course Player Webcast 66

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, those are they who live, who make the best use of their lives, those are those who have found the secret of contentment. Alban Goodier. “99 99 percent of success is built on failure.” – Charles Kettering. Tryon Edwards. John Dewey.

Education 36

Education Ideas Streaming Knowledge 36

Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2012

Work and learning are converging, and as this change happens, the infrastructure of the old corporate learning must go – things like traditional one-size-fit-all in-person training seminars. In its place enters social and informal learning hubs like on-demand content, live online discussions, wikis and forums, and searchable content archives.

Social Networks 76

Social Networks Collaboration Collaborative Learning Diversity Training 76

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Factors related to learning science that include holistic, trans-disciplinary content; emphasis on transferring knowledge across contexts and drawing on student existing knowledge; emphasis on narrative; and presentations that are jargon-free and in the active voice. Play within a play. I think it’s because you get what you pay for.

Engineering 58

Engineering Research Education Write Blog 58

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

A strong majority disagreed with the statement that their “formal training is superb.”. • Poor training. Company leaders are concerned about surrendering control of learning content. . • Nearly half reported they do not take time to reflect on what they might learn from a major success or failure. No time for reflection. •

Network 36

Network Communities of Practice Trends Wiki 36

Jay Cross

JANUARY 2, 2010

My last column called for the abolition of corporate training departments. I encouraged them to address the needs of people who had traditionally been left out of the corporate training agenda. Changed tag line to better reflect the content: Informal Learning in the Cloud. Look at Google and Cisco. More Human that Human.

LearnTrends 37

LearnTrends Network DevLearn Internet 37

Jay Cross

MAY 30, 2009

My last column in CLO called for the abolition of corporate training departments. More Human Than Human. CLO magazine, June 2009. Column on Effectiveness, by Jay Cross. The future is people, not technology. Now some instructors and traditional instructional designers see me as a job threat. They needn’t worry.

Technology 38

Technology Wiki Metrics CLO 38

Jay Cross

AUGUST 18, 2011

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, those are they who live, who make the best use of their lives, those are those who have found the secret of contentment. Alban Goodier. “99 99 percent of success is built on failure.” - Charles Kettering. Tryon Edwards. John Dewey.

Ideas 44

Ideas Education Streaming Knowledge 44

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Feature | Block mglazer RT @trishuhl mlearnopedia.com – aggregate of mlearning content, blogs, research, etc – #learntrends -11:29 AM Nov 18th, 2009. Feature | Block trishuhl mlearnopedia.com – aggregate of mlearning content, blogs, research, etc – #learntrends -11:24 AM Nov 18th, 2009. 10:59 AM Nov 18th, 2009.

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LearnTrends Instructional Design ADDIE IM 41