Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 6, 2009

Are content providers going the way of print newspapers? We’ll hear from CLOs, training company CEOs, analysts, and software vendors. What’s the future of the learning business? Are LMS vendors headed down the trail blazed by record stores? Join us July 23, 9 AM – 1 PM Pacific Time / 4 PM – 8 PM GMT.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 16, 2010

All the time we have LMS’s, organisations will feel bound to continue to put content inside it that should, instead be sitting elsewhere, in a searchable (and thus findable) state. Rather, the issue is whether the LMS merits the fixation of the training community. I have other fish to fry.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Online Educa has grown to become the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate and public service sectors in education and training. Learning no longer means just ‘training’; learning means problem solving, creativity, innovation, and more. Berlin is beautiful in early December.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 14, 2009

Get Out of the Training Business , my last column for Chief Learning Officer, called for the abolition of corporate training departments. A steward’s initial task is to assess the vision of the community along such dimensions as conversations, projects, content, access to expertise, relationships, and meetings.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Over the past three years, the focus has shifted from delivering training to delivering business results. Over the next two years, companies plan to spend more on eLearning and less on traditional training. Three hundred UK companies took part in a survey that focused on building the business case for eLearning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 25, 2009

Preview and Table of Contents. Blurb : Chief Learning Officers and training directors are struggling to convince executives they are making a difference. This un-book explains what a training director must do to get budget, keep her job, and make solid contributions to the bottom line. people they trained. businessman.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 11, 2009

Tough times will force the training function to focus on value. more really tailored content has to be provided. In many cases we now buy a complete package from which we only use a small percentage, because only this content is of interest to us. The drive for value will increase demand for learning in smaller chunks.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Our people need training, not socializing. Finished content is more valuable to works in progress. Marcia’s book gives us the ammunition to respond to these slams: Is this learning? People will say inappropriate things. People will post incorrect information. These systems compromise classified information.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

How can conferences be designed to amplify multiple back channel conversations, foster interaction over content presentation, and create opportunities for serendipitous learning? Another friend cancelled out of Training 2009 after only two people signed up for his pre-conference workshop. What are your thoughts on off-site conferences?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The eLearning Coach is where I share actionable strategies, practical content, personal reviews and resources to help you design, develop and understand online learning. You’ll find it discussed in training forums, featured in conferences and the subject of many presentations.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 1, 2010

The Future of Web Content – HTML5, Flash & Mobile Apps - TechCrunch , February 5, 2010. Intel’s Social Media Training - HarvardBusiness.org , February 3, 2010. “The Class” – parody of The Office - Digital Ethnography , February 7, 2010. Google Buzz re-invents Gmail - OReilly Radar , February 9, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Note : The vintage photos in this post are from training conferences circa 2000. Response 4 Content / speakers / networking. Response 5 Relevant content and effective speakers. Response 35 Options…plenty of options for how to become involved with the content. Response 36 Content, Networking.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 10, 2009

Machine-age managers complained when employees had downtime because they were in training. A corporation investing in training is analogous to a consumer buying a new computer. Why can’t the Training Department handle this? What happens to traditional training? Learning has become a corporate survival skill. Learn or die.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 19, 2009

My pal Tony O’Driscoll asked me to help spread the word about the upcoming 3D Training Learning and Collaboration (3DTLC) conference in Washington DC next month. Tony is hoping to kick off wide-spread adoption of virtual worlds in the enterprise. It is very rare to get in on the ground-floor of an emerging industry.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 12, 2010

Emerging eLearning (Abu Dhabi), Training (U.S.), It’s factory approach to filling people’s heads with content. School doesn’t prepare people for life; training doesn’t prepare them for work. They are currently refining informal/web 2.0 learning management approaches that accelerate performance. These days, you are paid to think.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Training consisted of supervisors showing workers how to run things. Brinkerhoff and others find that only 15% to 20% of what’s learned in a corporate training event shows up on the job. The fall-off is attributable to irrelevant content and delivery too far in advance of need. THE CHANGING NATURE OF WORK.

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