Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 24, 2010

Seminal documents. Three dozen wonderful presentations, free books, and funny videos about how people learn. You might also be interested in these links.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Ten days ago (late August 2010), Apple released an upgrade that enables Pages (Apple’s answer to Microsoft Word) to output documents in ePub format. It’s a magazine. It’s an ebook. It’s an ePub. I opened the 391-page The Working Smarter Fieldbook in Pages and “shared it” as an ePub file. In less than 30 seconds, my ePub was ready.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Wave threads together email, instant messages, documents, and applications in a way that you can follow, and even trace the history, of their links. Wave is a platform that both facilitates collaboration and documents it. You might follow an online conversation back in time. Or you could collaborate simultaneously.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 2, 2011

The “relevant documents&# are an effective sedative. Because learning is ubiquitous, OECD decided to overlook how to make informal learning better in favor of surveying what yardsticks are available to measure it. They get no further than “who gives credit for what&# in various countries.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 27, 2009

Scribd “social publishing&# for documents. Mimeo on-demand publishing for training. Lulu on-demand publishing for books. Veodia video directly to the cloud. EyeJot for video email and a sample. Collaboration. Google for an ever-greater array of services. Delicious tools for shared bookmarks. MindMeister for collaborative mind-mapping

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2010

Just as learning never ends, knowledge is never static and thus not “capturable” in the true sense…Because KMs have not been able to facilitate this fluidity, most have become document repositories. And of little value to organizations where knowledge without ongoing addition of context is just so much compiled, accumulated data.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Working software over comprehensive documentation. See the Agile Software Manifesto , which states: We are uncovering better ways of developing. software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.

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