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The future is people, not technology

Jay Cross

Now some instructors and traditional instructional designers see me as a job threat. Reporters and bloggers unearth what is newsworthy and document it for the community. Face-to-face instruction packs a punch but is difficult to scale. Column on Effectiveness, by Jay Cross. The future is people, not technology.

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How to Replace Top-down Training with Collaborative Learning (2)

Jay Cross

Both social and informal are deemed more important by employees than company documents and training. Jane Hart offers great advice on how to design a learning ecology to match the way contemporary workers learn. Think lightweight design, not instructional design. Here are some tips from Jane on this subject.

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Wikipedia’s 10th

Jay Cross

He edits out the ums and ahs to prepare a fast-moving video documenting the event. When I brought up instructional design, forty faces went blank. At the conclusion of each retreat, people draw pictures of what they’ve accomplished. Ward’s original wiki was geeky beyond belief. It’s totally intimidating.

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Reflecting on the first half of 2009

Jay Cross

Agile Instructional Design. Hence, I am exploring how well the principles of agile programming might be incorporated into a new framework for instructional design. Seminal Documents & Seminal videos. Gave opening keynote at IADIS eLearning 2009 on Rethinking Instructional Design in Carvoeiro, Algarve, Portugal.

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Business+MOOCs: Tweetstream

Jay Cross

billymeinke Is there an editable document or etherpad to document this conversation as it happens? geoffcain I am looking for folks interested in instructional design for MOOCs with possible paper and rubric outcome: [link] #qmooc -10:28 AM Feb 27th, 2013. Please read the book. qmooc -10:32 AM Feb 27th, 2013.

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Best articles on Working Smarter, April 2012

Jay Cross

When the Learner is the Teacher, Do We Need Instructional Designers? X-based learning: sorting out pedagogies and design CLARK QUINN | THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2012. Instructional Design Orthodoxy DAWN OF LEARNING | FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012. How do you learn best in the workplace? What and who are we?

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Robert Mager and others promoted the profession of instructional design. Training technology focused on the person, not the group: PLATO introduced computer-based training; Stanford pioneered instructional television; teaching machines and programmed instruction enjoyed brief popularity. Internal Documents and Training.