Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 3, 2010

Think of trainer turned into stage manager… their facilitation is more about making tools available than writing content; leaving the learners in charge to create and apply content. It means orchestrating informal tools to be available in the context of work as it needs to get done.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 3, 2009

If institutions viewed their primary rationale as fostering scalable peer learning, they could create learningscapes* that would help individuals develop their talent much more rapidly than these individuals ever could on their own. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. togetherLearn ’s thinking is remarkably congruent with John’s.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

ADDIE (analyze, design, develop, implement & evaluate) made it possible to manage the process of creating useful training programs systematically. Modern instructional design needs to focus on creating flexible environments that nurture learning rather than rigid programs that attempt to force lessons into the heads of learners.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 11, 2010

Think of trainer turned into stage manager… their facilitation is more about making tools available than writing content; leaving the learners in charge to create and apply content. It means orchestrating informal tools to be available in the context of work as it needs to get done.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 20, 2010

Think of trainer turned into stage manager… their facilitation is more about making tools available than writing content; leaving the learners in charge to create and apply content. It means orchestrating informal tools to be available in the context of work as it needs to get done.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Teachers no longer need to scramble to provide the latest up-to-date information to students because the students themselves are taking an active role in helping to create and mold it, particularly in areas of social information. We call this environment a collective.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 8, 2010

To ‘attack a straw man is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar yet weaker proposition (the “straw man&# ), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.? Lots of straw men live on the web.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2009

For the main event , Charles Jennings and I are designing a two-day track titled Creating a New Era of Corporate Learning. I’d leading a half-day workshop on how to implement informal learning the day before Online Educa in Berlin.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 27, 2009

Ten years ago an Aussie webmaster named Martin Dougiamas at Curtin University created Moodle as part of his PhD thesis. My friends at CV&A in Spain have implemented Moodle to support informal learning in numerous corporations.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2008

It can help to create new jobs, ensure quality of life and prevent new class distinctions. A Norwegian project on Competence Reform focuses on what’s needed for the workplace and for society as a whole. A well-educated population is the most important resource a society can have.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2008

It can help to create new jobs, ensure quality of life and prevent new class distinctions. A Norwegian project on Competence Reform focuses on what’s needed for the workplace and for society as a whole. A well-educated population is the most important resource a society can have.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2010

This doesn’t create lasting change. There’s no way to share that. We have a wiki but few people contribute. (Re: Re: Second Life) It all seems too sic-fi, too unreal for my organization. This is all too expensive. It’s not natural. No one will be interested. People aren’t paying attention.

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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? .* What changes are required in traditional conferences in order to take advantages of these ongoing conversations? * What are your thoughts on off-site conferences?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 1, 2010

Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID Live on EdTechTalk) - Learning Visions , April 9, 2010. GETinsight Live Discussion This Wednesday: Game-based Learning Practical Strategies for Leaders - edublogs , April 20, 2010. Designing for an uncertain world - Learnlets , April 17, 2010. Blog Post: No more targets please!

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Creating learning solutions that both attract employees and making the company appear progressive to the outside world have become major drivers of eLearning. 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

APRIL 27, 2010

The iPad has created these new job categories, according to Jennifer Jacobson, the witty publicist at Retrovo. Probably the first iPad in Switzerland: High unemployment? The iPad au pair or “iPair&#. Are you tired of “baby sitting&# your iPad? After all, it does require a significant amount of attention.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 19, 2010

They see that their apprentices learn to create satisfying yet economical food. What does he need to know to advance to pastry chef? How can the chef help the dessert chef advance to sous-chef? Good chefs take developing their staff very seriously.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Create a Learning Portal Using RSS to HTML Utilities - Workplace Learning Today , December 17, 2009. Eyes shaded, we walk out of the factory – there is no more button to push - Dave’s Educational Blog , December 4, 2009. The Dreadnought Moment has come for Pub TV – KETC - Robert Paterson’s Weblog , December 20, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 26, 2009

Indeed, learnscaping is all about “ creating an environment for enabling informal learning.&#. The implications for K12 are enormous. So are the obstacles. See Deschooling Society. Also, The Underground History of American Education. Sometimes you can “ measure an ROI on informal learning investment.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Creating tone of voice in eLearning. - Learning Visions , October 15, 2010. Tweckled at ALT! - Donald Clark Plan B , September 10, 2010. 5 Tools for Online Journalism, Exploration and Visualization - ReadWriteWeb , October 2, 2010. Don’t be tone deaf! 1,000 years in 5 minutes - The Long Now Blog , November 15, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Create a space online for asking questions and sharing advice. Picture the training in your mind’s eye. Okay, now think about how you could improve the learning taking place. You could post videos of a few winning sales pitches. Perhaps add a 24-hour help desk or product hot-line for answering questions.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

He also recommends helping workers learn how to improve their learning skills as well as creating a supportive organizational culture. In the latter case, this might involve supporting innovation, which requires making failure ‘okay,’ and supporting participation in professional Communities of Practice.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 26, 2009

Technology is used to create and diffuse new knowledge. Information sources give good answers to the questions users thought they were asking. Information sources provide complete answers to perfectly phrased questions. Technology is used to encode previously-generated knowledge. Andy’s book, Enterprise 2.0:

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 25, 2009

Congratulations to Scott Skibell for creating and uploading both standard-format videos and mp4s that you can download to your iPhone. Reflection is vital to learning. I am delighted to report that recordings of the April Learntrends sessions are online.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

Google figures a superlative engineer creates 200 times as much value as his middle-tier peer. In the old days, a highly proficient worker might outperform the average by 20 or 30 percent. Now that products are intangible, productivity knows no limits. Back the superlative worker, the wild ideas and the weirdness of the new.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Before Google scanned and digitized 7 million books and Wikipedia users created the world’s largest encyclopedia. If you want to perform a proper string quartet, they noted, you can’t cut out the cellist nor can you squeeze in more performances by playing the music faster.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

ADDIE (analyze, design, develop, implement & evaluate) made it possible to manage the process of creating useful training programs systematically. Starting virtually from scratch, America had to train millions of men to be soldiers and millions of civilians to make ships and armaments. Internet culture.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Here’s an oversimplification of Sharon’s meta-recipe: Create engagements that capture the learners’ attention. Every cook tweaks the instructions to get the best from local ingredients. Every trainer will put his or her spin on things; that’s what a professional does. Get out of the way; don’t try to think for them.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

To help them choose among many possible processes to create something that will be the best possible fit for their situation at a given time. To deepen the skills of those who serve as group process guides, leaders, hosts, and facilitators. To assist with their learning in how to do design.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 1, 2009

Creating your PKM processes , July 20, 2009. Would You Twitter if Your Tweet Carried a $50,000 Price Tag? Fast Company , July 28, 2009. Top Other Items. The following are the top other items based on social signals. authorSTREAM Desktop , July 21, 2009. Can Groups Be Taught to Resolve Their Own Inadequacies? July 7, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2011

If the employer has a spot for someone with your particular interests, then they have created an employee for life, and one who will work his butt off for you to make things happen. Once you identify that and let the people you work with know that, you plan together to make it happen.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Provides an opportunity to interact with others and create collaborative work. The instructional designs I created after his suggestion were later on submitted to AACE Ed Media conf, IADIS Mobile Learning conf. Response 40 pre event learning, create an intrest beffore the event. Response 22. Response 23 1. Response 24.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 26, 2009

Learnscapes are the factory floor of knowledge organizations; they are where workers connect to create value and learn from one another. The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness : 18 Interviews with Scientists, Practical Advice, and Product Reviews, to Keep Your Brain Sharp. Exercising workers’ brains boosts collective brainpower.

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