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eLearn Magazine’s 2010 Predictions

Jay Cross

Four members of Internet Time Alliance submitted their thoughts to eLearn Magazine’s 2010 Predictions. Jane Hart, social learning consultant at Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Wave Crests. Move It or Lose It. This is the decade of time. Time-to-performance will become the dominant metric for learning.

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Don’t drink the informal learning snake oil

Jay Cross

The Tragedy of eLearning. The 1999 Online Learning conference in Los Angeles was ground zero for eLearning. CBT Systems told the world it was being reincarnated as SmartForce, the eLearning Company. When we unveiled signs at the SmartForce booth, we were the only vendor who mentioned eLearning in the crowded exhibition area.

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Dated best practices

Jay Cross

This appeared on SRI-Business Consulting’s Learning on Demand page in April 2004. ELEARNING BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY. eLearning to address the learning challenges of a distributed. Use eLearning and related techniques to. Use eLearning to improve synergies between. Provide eLearning to the sales department.

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Those who forget the mistakes of history

Jay Cross

For those of you too young to remember, a dozen years ago venture capitalists, mainly in Silicon Valley, fell in love with the concept of eLearning. SunTrust, Morgan Keegan, Piper Jaffray, Wit Capital, Thomas Weisel Partners, and others wrote hundred-plus page analyses of why eLearning was the hottest investment opportunity out there.

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Best articles on working smarter

Jay Cross

The Non-Training Approach to Workplace Learning - Jane Hart , November 23, 2011. So you (still) want to be an elearning consultant? - Harold Jarche , November 7, 2011. eLearning Conferences 2012 - Tony Karrer , November 17, 2011. Flash Dead for eLearning - Tony Karrer , November 14, 2011.

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A job like mine

Jay Cross

He joined a new venture developing training for commercial bank loan officers. His firm, along with most of the training community, had a different vision: interactive multimedia CD-ROM. There weren’t many takers until CBT Systems, the largest and oldest provider of IT training CDs, became interested in online delivery.

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

That led me to an article Harold and I had written on the demise of the training department. The Future of the Training Department. The latter 20th Century was the golden era of the training department. The latter 20th Century was the golden era of the training department. NCR delivered the first sales training.