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Future of Education 2020 Summit

Jay Cross

At a Stanford education conference this morning, speakers made presentation after presentation without once involving the audience, not even asking for questions. I didn’t mention my suspicion that STEM dumbs down education. Consider the role of STEM education in someone’s career arc. No; it’s a closed system.

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Summarizing Learn for Yourself

Jay Cross

Any system that claims to “manage informal learning” is a learning management system, since once you start to “manage informal learning” it becomes “formal learning” as in a LMS the learning of the learners is still under the control of the organization.

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Generalities & specifics

Jay Cross

The ‘Learning Knights’ of Bell Telephone in the Op/Ed section of today’s New York Time is a case study of Push learning vs Pull learning. You can’t measure discovery learning with an LMS but that doesn’t mean it’s unimportant. Drawing by Dave Gray. Real life is painted in shades of gray.

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Best of working smarter for September 2011

Jay Cross

Education at a glance: 2011 - George Siemens , September 14, 2011. Social Learning is NOT a new training trend - Jane Hart , September 25, 2011. The 2020 Workforce and the LMS Disconnect - Dawn of Learning , September 16, 2011. Anybody Know a Good Community Manager? - Andy McAfee , September 27, 2011.

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Opening plenary at Online Educa

Jay Cross

Permanent secretary to the minister of education. Fronter is an LMS, CMS, eportfolio, admin, and collaboration. Roger talks of open source as a concept but sells a closed system. Operating system for learning. store and manage files. Joseph Pierre Ndiaye , Sengal. Il parle en Français. Il lit son papier.

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What Universities Must Learn About Social Networks

Jay Cross

Increasingly, businesses are looking to more social approaches to employee learning and development. Higher education institutions must capitalize on this shift. Co-written with Chris Sessums | Director of Educational Research, Internet Time Lab. While institutions could get help from their LMS vendor, we advise they don’t.

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Think for yourselves, plagiarists

Jay Cross

. “Informal Learning: Unofficial, unscheduled, impromptu way of us learn to do our jobs” Informal Learning Context, EDU 09 – THEORETICAL BASE OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE EDUCATION – II by T.K “ Informal learning is the unofficial, unscheduled, impromptu way most people learn to do their jobs.