Jay Cross

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The game of course

Jay Cross

The largest obstacle holding L&D professionals back from taking advantage of network technologies, distributed networks, social connections, peer interaction, and informal learning may be their bedrock belief that learning = courses. What’s a course? Where did courses come from? Vendors sell training by the course.

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udemy Course with Marissa Mayer

Jay Cross

Marissa’s free Udemy course will teach you how to build a culture of innovation at your company. Take This FREE Course. The course is billed as “Over 10 lectures and 24 mins of content!” The course was first announced 10 hours ago; 8,305 people have already signed up.

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Musing on Google’s Power Searching Course and marketing

Jay Cross

Today I completed Google’s Power Searching Course. After the course, I treat search more as an iterative process. I spent three or four hours taking the course. More, importantly for me, the Google course inspired me to contemplate how corporations can use co-learning to create more loyal customers. Course design.

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Google course finale — a certificate!

Jay Cross

Cheers, Power Searching with Google course staff. Mid-class assessment score: 90% Post-class assessment score: 74% You can print out the attached certificate and hang it on your wall. We hope you enjoyed the class!

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Courses are dead. Just foolin’

Jay Cross

Several people have asked me not to denigrate formal learning in the workplace, the 10 of the 70:20:10 model. Formal learning has its place. It’s apt for bringing people up to speed in a new discipline or topic.

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Science of Happiness MOOC

Jay Cross

UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center , is producing the course. Along with 100,000 other people, I’ve enrolled in a free MOOC on The Science of Happiness. It’s being administered on the EdX platform. . Must be completed by November 18. I’ll post about my experiences as we march through the material.

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Who says MOOCs are impersonal?

Jay Cross

Dear 6.002x Student, Our course team is excited for the beginning of 6.002x tomorrow, September 5th, 2012. You will be joining thousands of other students from around the world in MIT’s online course exploring circuits and electronics. The 6.002x Course Team. Uh, take it back. .

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