Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Why you should embrace open source

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

The reasons to engage with open source include the following: * Getting high-quality, free software and software design and development help. Adopting transparent development processes. Injecting discipline into the development process. Improving integration. Adopting transparent development processes.

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Through their presentations at conferences, Allison Rossett, Elliott Masie, Gloria Gery, and scores of other awesome teachers have shaped the thinking of the greater learning and development community of practice. Conference attendance have played a vital role in our professional development. Need to develop one?

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Learning for the 21st Century

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Learning develops new capacities, skills, values, understanding, and preferences. Instructional designers no longer have time to develop formal courses. A learnscape approach brings these things into focus and integrates them into a whole. Organisms only stop learning when they die. Learning is not one activity.

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Brain Rules & learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

They develop at different rates and excel in different subjects. SENSORY INTEGRATION | Rule #9: Stimulate more of the senses. People who exercise are better at thinking abstractly and innovating by improvising off previously learned material. Learning is personal. No two brains are the same. SLEEP | Rule #7: Sleep well, think well.

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