Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Seven years ago, Lance Dublin and I wrote a book entitled Implementing eLearning. We wrote that for eLearning to work, you needed to set the stage with change management and sell the stakeholders with the methods of consumer marketing. People still buy copies of Implementing eLearning today. Successfully Market to Learners.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 8, 2010

Four members of Internet Time Alliance submitted their thoughts to eLearn Magazine’s 2010 Predictions. Wave Crests.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Today’s newsletter from Kineo features my breezy audio answers to “six simple questions about doing e-learning right.&#. Why is this a good time to talk about e-learning? Answer : It isn’t. Great, we’re off to an excellent start. Who should you involve when you’re starting e-learning? Everyone, of course.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

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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Jay Cross

APRIL 11, 2013

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. Use eLearning to provide on-demand learning. Use eLearning to improve.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 17, 2012

I fear that flipping learning in corporations may meet the same nasty fate as eLearning. In the early days, 1999-2000, many of us believed that eLearning was the forefront of a renaissance in learning. The eLearning dream didn’t last long. Vendors put deadly-dull page-turner courses online and called it eLearning.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

She defends mass learning the way I used to fight for eLearning. ” With eLearning, I’d explain to the professor that he was unaffordable but personal treatment by Ivy-League professors does not scale. Her TED talk won me over for many reasons. Just watch it, just F do it.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 28, 2011

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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Jay Cross

APRIL 30, 2013

Implementing eLearning by Jay Cross. This baker’s dozen have influenced my thinking enormously, sometimes by the act of writing them. Informal Learning by Jay Cross. A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. Working Smarter Fieldbook by Jay Cross. Engaging Learners by Clark Quinn.

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Jay Cross

MAY 2, 2015

First to use term eLearning on the web. CEO, eLearning Forum. Wrote Implementing eLearning. I saw the web and fell in love. The web and knowledge were made for one another. I became a fanatic. Chief cheerleader for concept. Early conceptualizer. informal learning. Thought leader and chief proponent of informal learning.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 3, 2011

This Wednesday I’ll be keynoting The International Conference on eLearning in the Workplace. Here’s what I said I’d talk about: “Why eLearning Is No Longer Enough in Today’s Workplace&#. eLearning was state-of-the-art when it first appeared on the scene in 1998. More information is here.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

People who are no longer freshmen, he argues, should invest their time in eLearning and informal learning in social networks. Thinking about how came to eLearning? CROSS: eLearning is the marriage of learning and networks. GLOBO: Workshops are just for freshmen? We thought we could train them to do their work.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 26, 2014

And I have to comment on eLearning. eLearning covers all manner of sins. Look at ways people can really accelerate their learning — by having managers who encourage people by setting stretch goals and by encouraging individual initiative. It’s important to have a lot more of these.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

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Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2012

eLearn Magazine: The Oxford Union Debate on Informal Learning, Style or Substance? A couple of years ago, several of us traveled to Oxford to debate whether Informal Learning was style or substance. Substance won out 5:1. Here’s a brief excerpt of my position. Related: The debate over informal learning.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 25, 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. Reflecting on #socialartists and #change11 - Nancy White , November 8, 2011.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 17, 2013

Informal learning, 702010, complexity, amygdala learning, eLearning, and more. This is a recording of a two-hour session with Prof Curt Bonk at Indiana University. Unless you have a lot of time on your hands or are a Jay-junkie, I wouldn’t bother. The content’s not bad — there’s just too damn much of it! Just Jay'

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Jay Cross

APRIL 29, 2015

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, so I’ll reflect on the old days a dozen years ago when we were sorting out the ground rules for eLearning. In 2002, ASTD and I introduced a blog, Learning Circuits Blog, about eLearning and networking. I was an early and frequent contributor. <Kudos!

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

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Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2010

Strong on instructional design, management, learning, eLearning, marketing & sales, and psychology. I will throw in an afternoon on my back deck in Berkeley going over what I thought were the major messages of as many volumes as you wish. Shelves of inspiring books. Some travel, humor, web 2.0, last 25 issues of Harvard Business Review.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

I plan talk about aborigines, Andrew Carnegie, Gloria Gery, Hans Monderman, George Carlin, drunk tank pink, the hills of San Francisco, founding the University of Phoenix, the birth of eLearning, the Oxford Union, a trip to the Morgan Motorcar factory, and more. December 6 is Saint Nicholas day.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

By the way, if you are interest in a similar take on eLearning, visit eLearning Learning. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments. What blogs do you find enlightening in these areas? Are there any of these you don’t find valuable?

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Jay Cross

JUNE 27, 2011

The Cluetrain Manifesto, United Breaks Guitars, and blame your friends if you’re fat: the conclusion of my presentation at the International Conference on eLearning in the Workplace earlier this month.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 1, 2013

Implementing eLearning by Jay Cross. On April 30, I’ll award a copy of a book I really liked (or wrote) to a baker’s dozen of participants: Informal Learning by Jay Cross . A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. Working Smarter Fieldbook by Jay Cross. Engaging Learners by Clark Quinn.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The pre-eminent eLearning forum in Europe is becoming the pre-eminent business eLearning forum in Europe as well. Here’s the program. BUS01: Business EDUCA: The Opening Conversation. Thursday, December 2, 2010, 12:00 – 13:30.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 22, 2011

At the International Conference on eLearning in the Workplace , I talked with Sid Slover, the founder of Learn It Live.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 29, 2009

eLearning is not a big cost-cutter. C orporations are flocking to eLearning for all the wrong reasons. This sort of fanciful thinking tripped up eLearning ten years ago. Free chapters from Implementing eLearning. S even years ago, Lance Dublin and I wrote a book entitled Implementing eLearning.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today eLearn Magazine published a story on the debate at Oxford on whether informal learning is more style than substance.

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Informal Learning Informal Corporate eLearning Behavior 51

Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

I also recommended checking the free parts of the book Lance Dublin and I wrote ten years ago on implementing eLearning. eLearning Guild has announced a Performance Support Symposium that will take place this fall in Boston. Mobile learning is inevitable because mobile business is inevitable. There’s no time to learn in advance.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Check out the new blog on Learning Architecture from the eLearning Forum (which has become a part of the Human Capital Institute.) The new site has a link back to the old eLearning Forum site , and the archives are a walk down memory lane. Of course, the precise definition of eLearning is still up in the air.

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Jay Cross

MAY 11, 2008

Artifacts from the early days of eLearning keep appearing as I reflect on the long, strange trip it’s been. At the turn of the century, investors agreed that for eLearning, the sky was the limit. The first report to focus exclusively on corporate eLearning and still one of the best out there. The e-Bang Theory , 9/99.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Ten years ago Elliott Masie led a workshop for eLearning vendors at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle. Honchos from dozens of top-tier eLearning companies filled the lecture theater. Elliott asked for a show of hands: How many of us had actually completed a module of eLearning in order to learn something?

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 9, 2010

eLearning Debate at Oxford Union , October 6, Oxford. Gnomedex , August 19, Seattle. 2nd SEMINÁRIO A SOCIEDADE EM REDE E A EDUCAÇÃO, September 15-16, Sao Paolo. Enabling Innovation Facing Global Dilemmas , September 30-October 1, Potsdam. DevLearn , November 3-4, San Francisco. LearnTrends , November 15-17, online.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Judy Brown is talking about mobile learning: it’s more that eLearning lite. How mobile differs from eLearning? M-learning : Pervasive. Get learners to complete tasks while going about their day-to-day lives. Laptops are mobile but not in Judy’s book. She wants something you always take with you. It’s always connected.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It reminds me of ten years ago, when some troglodyte would prattle on about how eLearning would never be as effective as learning face-to-face in the classroom. Despite its faults, most eLearning scales, is affordable, can be made available 24/7, and changes with the times. That turned out to be an elitist argument.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

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