Jay Cross

APRIL 11, 2013

This marvelously tongue-in-cheek report looks at 800 studies of learning styles and concludes that there are better uses for educational funding. deep versus surface learning. I wrote this post in Thursday, December 08, 2005, but I’m reposting it here because some people still have not got the message. Just Jay'

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Jay Cross

APRIL 17, 2012

Flipping learning is big in education. It will be big in corporate learning. How do you flip learning? Khan Academy is the poster child for flipped learning. In the classroom, they sort out what they’ve learned and do what used to be called homework. Millions of students are learning this way.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 2, 2013

Your organization has decided to tilt in the direction of informal learning. Masterclass for L&D managers, instructional designers, and senior instructors on the concept and implementation of informal learning. Introduction to informal learning. A dive into 70:20:10 as an example of informal, experiential learning.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 20, 2015

Clark Quinn mentioned The Meta-Learning Lab during #lrnchat today and it brought back a rush of memories. 14 years ago, Clark and I, along with Claudia Welss and Claudia L’Amoreaux, founded the Meta-Learning Lab. Learning is a skill one can improve. Learning how to learn is a key to its mastery. ” H.G.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 25, 2015

WHAT KEEPS WORKERS FROM LEARNING ONLINE? 41% find current online learning not relevant to their need. 26% find learning content uninspiring. 22% learning objectives are not clear. WHAT DO LEARNERS VALUE HIGHLY FOR LEARNING? 64% formal education course55% internal company documents. 49% live online learning.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

From my pal Curt Bonk at Indiana University: My research team and I from the Instructional Systems Technology Department at Indiana University are conducting a study titled, “Collecting Stories of Extreme or Informal Learning.” I’m finishing up my next book, Informal Learning in Business. I suggest you take it.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 5, 2012

The cost of experiential learning is rarely measured. Stretch assignments lead to informal learning. Experiential learning is powerful because it deals with real problems in context. Application reinforces what’s learned. An organization that leaves experiential and informal learning to chance is squanders opportunity.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

I just copied a rough draft of my new book, Learn For Yourself , into a free summarizer. It’s all a matter of learning, but it’s not the sort of learning that is the province of training departments, workshops, and classrooms. You are learning to learn how to become the person you wrote the obit for.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 31, 2012

Donald Clark is blogging about 50 learning theorists in 50 days. Of the thirteen he’s covered thus far, Donald has pointed out that: For Rousseau, “It’s hard to see a man who handed all five of his children up to an orphanage at birth, as an expert on the development and education of children. It’s a rollicking good read.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Every year, ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN attracts over 2000 participants from 100 countries worldwide, making it the most comprehensive annual meeting place for technology-supported learning and training professionals. Changing Learning. Modern education is evolving into a different shape. How is learning changing us?

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Jay Cross

MARCH 1, 2012

There are lots of ways to learn things. You say learning and managers hear schooling. Schools rarely validate non-school ways to learn. Learning that takes place outside their walls doesn’t rate grades or gold stars. Little wonder top-down training is the default option for corporate learning.

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Jay Cross

JULY 12, 2012

As retailer Sy Syms used to say, “The best customer is an educated customer.” Co-learning builds trust. As other companies realize the potential of learning as a marketing tool, we’re going to see a lot more programs like this. Google chose the curriculum and tests what you learn.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This December, we’re hosting a Learning Video Festival. This December, we’re hosting a Learning Video Festival. You can learn how to fold a t-shirt in two seconds or study. The web is chock full of delightful, generally free video resources. What online video resources have you discovered?

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2012

It’s not that seasoned and elder employees weren’t learning; we all learn all the time. Rather, they weren’t learning as well as they might. HR and training departments overlooked experienced employees because they learn experientially, from stretch assignments and mentors rather than from courses and workshops.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Size Isn’t Everything – Cathy Davidson – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Forbes, on the other hand, touts the financial promise of investments in MOOC’s and other digital educational offerings. Online Learning – The Chronicle of Higher Education. MOOC Madness.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I am really looking forward to attending the VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning in Barcelona next month! Different designs, tools and functionalities of social learning networks will be evaluated. I’ll be speaking on Meta-Learning: Process of Learning in the Network Era. Tags: Meta-Learning.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 13, 2013

Higher education in the United States is broken. Corporate colleges break higher ed into its constitutent parts and reassemble them with checks and balances more fitting for a pragmatic 21st century education. These in-house programs would: Move the bulk of learning to the workplace. Fund higher education by the private sector.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer injury to our self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their self-importance, learn so easily; and why older people, especially if vain or arrogant, cannot learn at all.” ~ Thomas Szasz. One must learn by doing the thing.

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Jay Cross

JULY 13, 2010

The article describes how Green Berets, SEALs, and Air Force Special Tactics units learn to do their extraordinary jobs. Their training is in-depth, realistic, and repetitive, and it is run by the most experienced SOF operators — not classroom-schooled educators. The story contains invaluable lessons for corporations.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Stephen Downes has posted a brilliant, encyclopedic paper on The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On. It’s follow-up to one of my favorite Stephen essays, The Future of Online Learning (1998). On my wiki, I maintain a list of two dozen seminal documents in learning. Read this essay.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

She defends mass learning the way I used to fight for eLearning. And the Department of Education found that, if anything, online learning is sometimes more effective than the classroom experience. People who receive individualized tutoring learn 50x better (and the machine might be the tutor next time.).

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 17, 2014

If you want to learn what’s going on in learning and development worldwide, join me in Berlin this December for Online Educa. This is the 20th anniversary of this forum of thought leaders in business, education, and government. Learning Community The Learning Business' Is it worth it? I certainly think so.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 27, 2010

Forty years ago, Illich wrote about the need for learning networks, peer-to-peer webs, and learning objects. It is a critical discourse on education as practised in “modern&# economies. Ivan Illich. We have yet to catch up with his vision. Deschooling Society (1971) is a book that brought Ivan Illich to public attention.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 18, 2010

We should be incorporating his thinking in our approach to all of educational reform, not just how people learn science. Then read When The New Yorker Probes the Decline Effect, An Opportunity Emerges to Rethink Science Education. See The Mysterious Decline Effect in Lehrer’s blog, The Frontal Cortex, on Wired.

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Jay Cross

JULY 30, 2008

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,&# goes the refrain when managers ask why their organizations should get involved with the informal learning/web 2.0/learnscape Until recently, the secret of success was to learn what had worked in the past and do that. Education and training faced backward.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 The Non-Training Approach to Workplace Learning - Jane Hart , November 23, 2011. Draft: What’s new about social media?

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Jay Cross

MARCH 16, 2012

The third day of the EdgeX, The Disruptive Educational Research Conference, opened with a fishbowl discussion. We briefly reviewed India’s staggering goals for higher education in the coming ten years. Clearly, they’d had to learn a lot since graduation. Clearly, they’d had to learn a lot since graduation. Yes and no.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Educators from Around the World Discuss How to Make Everyone a Genius at Brain Matters 2015: Bring Out Your Inner Genius. Online conference is expected to draw a diverse group of learning experts. I’ll be talking about Real Learning at noon Pacific/3 p.m. General admission for both days of the online conference is $147.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 18, 2011

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer injury to our self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their self-importance, learn so easily; and why older people, especially if vain or arrogant, cannot learn at all.” ~ Thomas Szasz. One must learn by doing the thing.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Harold Elletson opened the 16th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning & Training, Online Educa Berlin. Education for all in the Digital Age. Saudia Arabia a success story, dedicating 20% of its federal budget to education, something like $55 billion a year. Learning, not teaching. Coming soon.,

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Join the Google+ Learning Community to stay in the loop. Instructions for watching on YouTube will appear at the Learning Community at show time. Using mLearning and MOOCs to Understand Chaos, Emergence, and Complexity in Education , great paper from Inge De Waard. Business+MOOCs Hangout on Air. Calendar link. Twitter #MOOC.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2012

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 Social Learning: what actually is it? - Jane Hart , February 1, 2012. Layers of learning - Clark Quinn , February 1, 2012.

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Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

Imagine what adult learners could do if we encourage them and let them learn with one another. Education is a self-organizing system and learning an emergent phenomenon.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

I sensed that learning and knowledge management were converging and invited bloggers form both sides to get together at the Tidehouse to share viewpoints and guzzle beer. If you’re into meta-learning, you should track what’s going on there. Corporate learning and KM are both about getting the job done.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The teacher will uncloak soon to reveal an interdisciplinary approach where students select what to learn from Open Education resources. Learning is experiential and self-directed. Howard Rheingold, Jerry Michalski, and others, myself included, have dropped by.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

MIT and Harvard founded edX to educate the world for free. Lifelong learning is necessary and now we have the vehicle for it. The Learning Community of Google+ is hosting the session. 400,000 people signed up for a MOOC (course) on artificial intelligence. Disruptive innovation is afoot. FOR MORE INFORMATION.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Working Smarter Daily draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 The Smart Worker : shares what s/he learns - Jane Hart , August 2, 2011.

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