Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Personal Learning Environment 2010

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

More information on the course: In the last five years, the twin concepts of the personal learning environment (PLE) and personal learning network (PLN) have been offered as alternatives to more traditional environments such as the learning management system (LMS) and institutionally-based courses.

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Get Out of the Training Business

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Learning will be redefined as problem-solving, achieving fit with one’s environment and having the connections to deal with novel situations. Survivors will develop and present agendas for change while things are in flux. We’re scrapping the LMS posthaste. All of our energies will go into peer-to-peer, self-service learning.

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Learning in times of economic meltdown

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Survivors develop and present agendas for change while things are in flux. Temporary workers and the “company of one” will be providing more service — and corporations need to figure out how to develop these non-employees. The drive for value will increase demand for learning in smaller chunks. Good bye to the fancy LMS.

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Informal learning from the horse’s mouth

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

The eLearning Coach is where I share actionable strategies, practical content, personal reviews and resources to help you design, develop and understand online learning. The interview: Connie: A funny thing happened while we were learning informally. Coach: What are examples of offline informal learning?

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August Informal Learning Hot List

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 – August Update , August 8, 2009. State of learning management systems in higher education , August 26, 2009. Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day: Some free online courses about e-learning , August 10, 2009. Google Adds Tools to Web Developer Suite , August 10, 2009.

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Time is all we have

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

You can build a relationship or develop an idea in a fraction of the time it took to build a factory. At the dawn of the network age, managers enjoyed the luxury of annual planning. Twenty-five years ago, intangible assets accounted for less than a third of the valuation of U.S. In the world of intangibles, quality trumps quantity.