Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Re-reading A New Culture of Learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

A New Culture of Learning by John Seely Brown and Doug Thomas. In the new culture of learning, people learn through their interaction and participation with one another in fluid relationships that are the result of shared interests and opportunity. This short book (136 pages) is inspiring.

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Internet culture

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Chief Learning Officer magazine , Effectiveness, April 2009. by Jay Cross. The Internet is so pervasive that Internet values are blowing back into real life. For example, I have no qualms about walking out of a boring presentation, even if I’ve been sitting in the front row.

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Informal learning across cultures

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

A 24-minute video prepared for the closing conference of “Establishing a Collective Understanding and Raising Awareness on Informal Learning in Turkey in the Context of Lifelong Learning&# in Ankara, Turkey. Find more videos like this on Internet Time.

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Informal Learning Blog » Benchmarking your learning culture

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Where Social Learning Thrives

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Growing a culture of service is more like planting a garden than building a shed. A social learning culture requires design, training, guidance, leadership, monitoring and celebrating successes, large and small. Read this inspiring Fast Company blog post by Marcia Conner. She nails what I have been calling learnscaping.

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L&D Suicide?

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Rigid, top-down corporate cultures become brittle in the face of frequent change. A culture of trust. Expecting workers to carry out the work without direct supervision requires a major change in a corporation’s culture. Going out too far on this limb could be a career-limiting move. Changing nature of work.

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Informal Learning Blog » Internet Culture and the Evolution of Learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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