Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Of course, I could always do this. Similar Site Search reads one site’s tags and proceeds to find sites like it.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I’ve bought at least a couple of dozen HP printers in the course of the last twenty years, but I will never buy another. The OfficeJet J4500 is a poorly-designed, awful Chinese piece of garbage. David Packard and Bill Hewlett must be rolling in their graves.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 14, 2009

The real message–traditional courses are not the best way to link learning with the business or to engage learners. Are training departments REALLY necessary? Leveraging social networking, informal learning and e-learning are just a few ways to manage learning/training in the 21st Century. When will we GET it?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2009

I decided I was not cut out to be a physicist and dropped back to the more popular physics for dummies course at midyear. two introductory courses are still required — classical mechanics and electromagnetism — but today they meet in high-tech classrooms, where about 80 students sit at 13 round tables equipped with networked computers.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Of course, sound’s important, too. In animation they always use storyboards to develop the story they want to tell. Films have a beginning, middle and an end just like a learning session. Films have plots and sub plots just like learning has objectives and sub objectives. Julie and I talked about unbooks last month.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 26, 2010

They draw the ‘kill the courses, shut down the training department’ line with a dramatically heavy hand.&#. . “This ‘unbook’ is a compilation of Jay’s ideas as well as interjections from his colleagues in the Internet Time Alliance (Harold Jarche, Jane Hart, Charles Jennings, Clark Quinn, and Jon Husband).

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 10, 2010

I downloaded and used the free Ning Archiver to move my data off Ning: Over the course of 30 minutes, I downloaded blogs, discussions, events, groups, music, videos, pages, notes, and photos. It wasn’t very difficult. I’ll show you what I did in case you’d like to do likewise. You have to download Members separately.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

I thought economics was such a crock that I never took another course in the subject. In a seminal study, Bowen and Baumol used the analogy to show why universities can’t easily improve efficiency. I remember. I was at Princeton in 1966. Bowen was my professor for Economics 101.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2008

Of course, I agree with the sentiment. In other words, an autodidactic approach that spurns commercialism, mass-market approaches and top-down goal-setting. Coined by Jim Groom, an “instructional technologist” at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2008

Of course, I agree with the sentiment. In other words, an autodidactic approach that spurns commercialism, mass-market approaches and top-down goal-setting. Coined by Jim Groom, an “instructional technologist” at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2009

He will detail how to assess value of the new learning platforms that are supplanting old-style courses. He will provide case examples of organisations that are taking advantage of Twitter, blogs, wikis, and other social networking tools. Jay will present cases studies, research findings and examples.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 18, 2009

The respondents must be responding as if the question were, “What percentage of the courses you’ve been offering could be done with a social learning format?&#. . “What percentage of your learning could be done with a social learning format?&# Only 5% said more that 80%.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

For example, instructional designers no longer have time to develop formal courses. . * Working with management to fund and develop appropriate tools and processes for workers. The only certainty about the future from here on out is that it won’t resemble the past.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 1, 2010

Day 2 futures education course – Trends - Dave’s Educational Blog , April 6, 2010. Reboot: Puma and Yves Béhar Spend Three Years Designing Super-Green Shoebox - Fast Company , April 13, 2010. is a philosophy, not a technology - Informal Learning , April 10, 2010. Facebook Accounts for Sale - Lockergnome Blog Network , April 23, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 3, 2010

The future of education – A course in futures thinking - Dave’s Educational Blog , March 8, 2010. What Others Know About You And What You Should Know About Yourself - Lockergnome Blog Network , March 1, 2010. A Cheat Sheet to Help You Conquer Social Media - Fast Company , March 11, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Teaching Online Courses – 60 Great Resources - eLearning Technology , October 25, 2010. Beware the Internet as liberation theology - Forbes.com: News , September 8, 2010. To Get Paid What You’re Worth, Know Your Disruptive Skills - HarvardBusiness.org , September 14, 2010. Why Twitter’s t.co

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 29, 2010

Open course-wars, redux… the real nastiness is elsewhere - Abject Learning , January 5, 2010. Massive increase in words consumed - Donald Clark Plan B , January 6, 2010. China rising - The Long Now Blog , January 18, 2010. Are You Ready For The 21st Century ? - Wirearchy , January 9, 2010. Do I Need to Know It, or Just How to Find It?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 27, 2010

Sun was bringing 120 new salespeople a month to a one-week immersion course in Santa Clara. Here’s an example. At the end of the last century, Sun Microsystems was a high-flier in the workstation business. The new hires went through briefings on equipment, applications, competition, Sun, and more.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 25, 2009

experimentation with teaching and learning that challenges assumptions of courses and conferences is intriguing. A few comments that resonated with me: ended up being my talk radio. you’ve got to be in it to ‘get’ it.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 14, 2010

10 ways to keep courses short - Donald Clark Plan B , May 25, 2010. Mobile operating systems and browsers are headed in opposite directions - OReilly Radar , May 17, 2010. 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive - Scientific American , May 21, 2010. Is Steve Jobs Repeating His Past Mistakes?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2009

Of course, highly charged atmospheres can create misunderstandings. This was important to gain commitment; he put physical things out there. This fostered more discussion and more mutual understanding. He didn’t fear the tension; he welcomed it as a means of making progress. He suggested they think of a village of orangutans.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Introduction to Emerging Technologies: Open Course , September 29, 2009. Driving formal & informal from the same place , September 8, 2009. Free-agentry , September 3, 2009. The E-Learning Debate at the Oxford Union , September 30, 2009. Hot Topics. Company (1368). Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies , September 28, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2009

We are facing new problems, and often there is no course for it. Pull can be self-service, but it can also be working with others to figure it out. We not only need to learn these days, but we also have to innovate. It’s self-service in the sense that the learning department may not be involved, but it’s user-driven.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 24, 2010

Completing an eLearning course was the exception rather than the rule. Despite growning evidence that eLearning can produce results superior to those from the classroom, early failures sullied its reputation. eLearning circa 1999 was for the most part deadly dull and uninspiring. People stayed away in droves.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2007

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NOVEMBER 19, 2006

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 12, 2009

And as a result, we must focus our attention on learning ecosystems instead of courses and workshops: platforms, not programs. Groups have become more important than individuals. The interplay of complex systems has rendered the business environment unpredictable. Often the payback is so enormous that precision is unnecessary.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 16, 2009

Oh course, everything in life is beta. Overll, I see a big future for technology like this, for it exemplifies the sort of self-service, pull, get-it-when-you-need-it learning style of learning I champion. It makes me life easier. We all have, or will have, room for improving how well we fit with the environments we inhabit.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

An inspiration? Look at EDUCAUSE/ELI as exemplars.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Instructional designers no longer have time to develop formal courses. Increasingly, we co- create knowledge in the course of collaboration and work. 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.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 28, 2009

Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day: Some free online courses about e-learning , August 10, 2009. State of learning management systems in higher education , August 26, 2009. Kill the curriculum? August 27, 2009. What It Means to Be Human: Being Covalent Instead of Ambivalent About Community , August 13, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 1, 2008

Then an eight-year old girl said that of course they knew that DNA was the cause of genetic disease. Mitra took a PC to a remote Tamil village. He challenged the children to learn biotech. When he returned, the children said the subject was too difficult. A hole in the wall costs 3 cents per child per day.

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