Jay Cross

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DIY Learning

Jay Cross

The first deliverable will be an inexpensive book, probably both an ebook (cheap and easy to distribute) and a paperback (works better for checklists and highlighting). is a book for people and small groups of colleagues who are taking their professional development into their own hands. No instructors, no classrooms.

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Happiness is yours for the taking

Jay Cross

I may write a book or an ebook, or show companies how happiness boosts the bottom line, or lead workshops, or all these and more. Picasso wisely said, “I do things I don’t know how to do in order to learn how to do them.” ” Me too. I don’t know how I am going to play Santa year round.

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Project Aha!

Jay Cross

I plan to write an eBook on learning for learners. The obscurity of Instructional Design outside of the L&D community compels me to provide a brief orientation to ID and a minimalist take on how to use it as part of building learn-to-learn skills. But I have to start by pinning down the subject matter and examples.

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Un-book

Jay Cross

As part of my prep for the discussion and to satisfy my lust for cool gadgets, I bought a Kindle ebook from Amazon. Nonetheless, the form of the book as we’ve known it is under severe pressure, and it’s not just the people who don’t believe in sending the world’s forests to paper mills. I’m sold.

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Rachel Happe on Community Maturity Model

Jay Cross

Blogs, ebooks. Ride the waves. Ignoring issues and trouble-makers rarely make them go away. It’s your job to define what’s acceptable and what’s not. CONTENT & PROGRAMMING. Keep a regular schedule. Be multi-modal. Bring something new to the table. POLICY & GOVERNANCE. Take calculated risks.

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Re-imagining the Book

Jay Cross

eBooks are overtaking printed books. I asked “What’s the optimal process for creating a book/ebook for managers? This will take organization, strong design, collaboration, and artistry. Creating the new book raises some interesting issues. Most managers don’t read books; they gather information on the web. by chapter) or for web (i.e.

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195 posts about MOOCs

Jay Cross

Beyond eBooks CLARK QUINN | MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2012. MOOC Statistics Thus Far STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2011. Lessons for ‘learning’ from Amazon’s Napsterisation of bookstores, books and every other damn thing DONALD CLARK PLAN B | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2013. What Kind of FOO am I?