Jay Cross

JANUARY 26, 2014

A lot of the courses out there are absolute crap. If you look at behavior on the job, you’d be lucky if you find 15% of the results of courses. And I have to comment on eLearning. eLearning covers all manner of sins. It happens in the course of work. It’s important to have a lot more of these.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Everyone, of course. Why is this a good time to talk about e-learning? Answer : It isn’t. Great, we’re off to an excellent start. Who should you involve when you’re starting e-learning? Which kind of project is good to start with? Why are you asking me? Ask the business. How do you get learners engaged?

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

She defends mass learning the way I used to fight for eLearning. ” With eLearning, I’d explain to the professor that he was unaffordable but personal treatment by Ivy-League professors does not scale. Her TED talk won me over for many reasons. Just watch it, just F do it.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 11, 2013

ELEARNING BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY. eLearning to address the learning challenges of a distributed. Use eLearning and related techniques to. Use eLearning to improve synergies between. Provide eLearning to the sales department. Use eLearning to provide on-demand learning. Use eLearning to improve.

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Compliance Training Virtual Classroom Low Cost Blended Learning 41

Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

Her manager had asked her to create a training course for the iPads they were buying. I also recommended checking the free parts of the book Lance Dublin and I wrote ten years ago on implementing eLearning. Anything but a course. Courses are for optimal execution. Image by Liz Burow. Where’s the business need?

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

People who are no longer freshmen, he argues, should invest their time in eLearning and informal learning in social networks. Thinking about how came to eLearning? CROSS: eLearning is the marriage of learning and networks. Courses and workshops are great for anyone who lacks structure and knowledge in a subject.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2011

That’s the phenomenon I describe in this brief excerpt from the opening presentation at the I nternational Conference on eLearning in the Workplace two weeks ago in New York. Of course, while units of currency are losing value, units of time are gaining value. Maybe I should goof off now and make up for it in the future.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2015

Since I’m in the midst of writing a book on solo/DIY learning, I thought I might learn something from these freebies: 45 Elearning Tips and Tricks , by John Araiza. Advice is for building courses. Use animation to spice up a course.” This is an instructional designer’s record of twelve years’ experience.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Richard : games, not courses. Cammy : be an eLearning professional. DevLearn ended on a high note: Richard Culatta, Cammy Bean, Aaron Silvers, Ellen Wagner, and Gina Schreck in serial Pecha Kucha. Fun comes from mastery. No more nextsters. Jane : don’t let the boss loose with Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and a Smart Phone.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

Formal learning includes courses, workshops, seminars, online learning and certification training. Broad’s research highlights the fact that the manager’s expectations of the team’s performance and aptitude should closely align with the objectives and design of any formal learning course. 50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Check out the new blog on Learning Architecture from the eLearning Forum (which has become a part of the Human Capital Institute.) The new site has a link back to the old eLearning Forum site , and the archives are a walk down memory lane. Of course, the precise definition of eLearning is still up in the air.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Ten years ago Elliott Masie led a workshop for eLearning vendors at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle. Honchos from dozens of top-tier eLearning companies filled the lecture theater. Elliott asked for a show of hands: How many of us had actually completed a module of eLearning in order to learn something?

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

eLearning was still haled as a panacea. The bike rider selects the route, often changing in mid-course. Six years ago I wrote Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance. The book came out before iPhones and iPads. Facebook was only available to students. Twitter had not been born.

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Jay Cross

MAY 11, 2008

Artifacts from the early days of eLearning keep appearing as I reflect on the long, strange trip it’s been. At the turn of the century, investors agreed that for eLearning, the sky was the limit. The first report to focus exclusively on corporate eLearning and still one of the best out there. The e-Bang Theory , 9/99.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

But we (and I mean all course participants, not just Stephen and I) managed to explore what is possible online. Those that observed (or lurked as is the more common term), hopefully found value in the course as well. I am listening to George’s mid-course video message. Did we change the world? All in all. It was fun.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 20, 2009

We have been collecting sample texts from blog text over the course of 2 years based on research about personality type and writing style. I didn’t run Typealyzer on Jane’s blog because her eLearning pick of the day, while extremely valuable, is not your standard blog-text. My togetherLearn pals are INTJs, scientists.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Jay Cross, the man who coined the term ‘elearning’, believes the web is revolutionising the way we learn. Not through the kind of elearning of the 1990s but via the explosion of online communities which effectively democratise the way we learn. Cross says: “The question is not; which course do I go on?

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Jay Cross, the man who coined the term ‘elearning’, believes the web is revolutionising the way we learn. Not through the kind of elearning of the 1990s but via the explosion of online communities which effectively democratise the way we learn. Cross says: “The question is not; which course do I go on?

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Blended Learning Social Networks Training Train 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Jay Cross, the man who coined the term ‘elearning’, believes the web is revolutionising the way we learn. Not through the kind of elearning of the 1990s but via the explosion of online communities which effectively democratise the way we learn. Cross says: “The question is not; which course do I go on?

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Blended Learning Social Networks Training Train 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Jay Cross, the man who coined the term ‘elearning’, believes the web is revolutionising the way we learn. Not through the kind of elearning of the 1990s but via the explosion of online communities which effectively democratise the way we learn. Cross says: “The question is not; which course do I go on?

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Blended Learning Social Networks Training Train 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Jay Cross, the man who coined the term ‘elearning’, believes the web is revolutionising the way we learn. Not through the kind of elearning of the 1990s but via the explosion of online communities which effectively democratise the way we learn. Cross says: “The question is not; which course do I go on?

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Blended Learning Social Networks Training Train 36

Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2009

Of course, first you’ve got to find where you are being recognized. Elearning Learning. Egoboo is a colloquial expression for the pleasure received from public recognition of voluntary work. Reporters, researchers, and podcasters interview me about informal learning and its application in business every week. (I’m

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Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2010

On the way home from the Swiss eLearning Conference, my mind was racing after three days of talking with interesting people and spreading the informal learning gospel. In a course on Learning about Learning at SpacedEd , people are taking away a lot from the comments as well as from the questions on the main path. Is it a fad?

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Courses, 168, 169, 191. eLearning, 28, 55, 58, 97, 105, 106, 107, 124, 168, 170, 172, 177, 187, 191. Implementing eLearning , 183, 187. Complexity, 19, 67, 77, 176. convergence, 4, 114. Conversation, 130, 143. Corporate culture, 76. Cozumel, 187, 191. Craft, 120. Cynefin, 67, 146. Dan Pink, 76, 185. Dave Snowden, 67, 146.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 29, 2010

Thomson Reuters’ Andy Jones described the journey from eLearning to knowledge-sharing, saying “Thomson Reuters Technology Operations has taken business-focused learning to a new level. However, in our debrief yesterday, both Jane and Charles reported that many attendees are only just starting to shift to delivering some eLearning.

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Jay Cross

MAY 1, 2014

‘I think the students in the Building Online Collaborative Environments Course has an almost impossible task. What do elearning users say? STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR. APRIL 21, 2014. Connectivism as Learning Theory. Here is their effort to prove that connectivism is a learning theory. CLARK QUINN | TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Of course, I also read the posts of Jane Hart, Harold Jarche, Clark Quinn, and Charles Jennings; we five are always building upon one another’s thinking. You may be familiar with eLearning Learning but it also powers Leadership Digital, Career Digital and several others. Less is more. In eight minutes. Roll your own.

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Jay Cross

JULY 6, 2009

eLearning is not the answer - Internet Time , February 20, 2009. Off Course-On Target , January 9, 2009. eLearning Roadtrip , June 28, 2009. eLearning Roadtrip , June 28, 2009. All you need to jump start civilization… - The Long Now Blog , April 14, 2009. Body Language Decoded - Forbes.com: News , June 28, 2009.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 19, 2012

For example, instructional designers no longer have time to develop formal courses. In an earlier article, eLearning Is Not the Answer , I’d pushed (NB: irony), the importance of Pull Learning. Facilitating pull learning requires building learning ecosystems that bind workers together instead of developing courses and events.

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Authoring Tools CD-ROM Compliance Training DDI 46

Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

Daily mid-course correction is much more powerful than after-the-fact reviews. He was the first person to use the term eLearning on the web. Your role is to help managers learn that: People learn from experience. Managers shape the experience of the people on their team. Experience coupled with reflection sticks lessons in memory.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

I don’t mean to insult your intelligence, so permit me to explain that I didn’t understand the difference between profit and revenue until I took a correspondence course in accounting five years after graduating from college. Projects that enter new territory, eLearning for example, warrant more detailed consideration.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 22, 2011

What eLearning was supposed to be. John Medina’s book lists ten of basic truths about how people learn. Complexity. It’s a nonlinear, interconnected world and you will never figure it out. Corporate dyslexia. The inability to read the writing on the wall. Opposite: ‘Just enough.’ ’ Doggie treats. Social Learning.

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Jay Cross

MAY 24, 2011

You need to provide a framework for informal learning, but experienced workers don’t want to go to “courses.”. Dirty words: training, learner eLearning, informal, social, school, learning. Experienced workers prefer to acquire needed information through informal channels. New Paradigm: Working Smarter. Now call it working smarter.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 24, 2013

ABC: 10 reasons NOT to create a course and 10 other options . My colleague, Clark Quinn, recently wrote a blog post, Yes, you do have to change, in which he explained how he felt that “ the elearning industry, and the broader learning industry, is severely underperforming the potential”. MORE >> 191 Tweets. 102 Tweets.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 2, 2011

Jeff Goldman – eLearning Designer. Qend) Randall Case, Curriculum Designer and Developer…fewer courses, more experiences! Designing from outside of Boston. Getting crazier every minute thanks to all you whackadoodles. via Twitter for iPhone. Plug- Don’t forget 2 respond 2. LCBQ [link]. Break down the org walls).

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Training identified knowledge gaps and delivered courses to close them. 10 percent from courses and reading. He was the first person to use the term eLearning on the web. Traditionally, training departments were designed for mechanical work processes. 20 percent from feedback and working with and observing role models. •

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Over the course of three days, I attended all of two sessions. But only two sessions over the course of three days? I attended ASTD, eLearning, Online Learning, Elliott Masie’s TechLearn, Training, ISPI (then NSPI), and many others. One was precisely what I was looking for. Yes, yes, yes.

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