Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2009

They see open plan architecture as social engineering, and they have a point. The Center is home to engineering and computer science faculty. You can see what others are up to; their work becomes transparent, enabling people to interact. Not everyone likes the idea. As Tom Davenport said, they want their privacy. They interacted.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

Google figures a superlative engineer creates 200 times as much value as his middle-tier peer. In the old days, a highly proficient worker might outperform the average by 20 or 30 percent. Now that products are intangible, productivity knows no limits. Back the superlative worker, the wild ideas and the weirdness of the new.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Hans Monderman is a Dutch traffic engineer who is gaining fame for what he doesn’t do. Here’s an oversimplification of Sharon’s meta-recipe: Create engagements that capture the learners’ attention. Get out of the way; don’t try to think for them. Encourage people to learn from one another.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The modern definition of agile software development evolved in the mid-1990s as part of a reaction against “heavyweight&# methods, perceived to be typified by a heavily regulated, regimented, micro-managed use of the waterfall model of development.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 5, 2009

I try to RTFM (&# read the fine manual&# ) which reads like handiwork of an engineer with a dictionary and little in the way of English language skills. I recently purchased a snazzy video camera for $800. I’m still trying to figure out the myriad options. No matter how hard I try to decipher it, I can’t figure it out.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2008

A chat with Klaus Henning, who heads the Center for Learning and KM and the University’s Department of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering, got my mental gears turning. Also, I don’t want to be associated with Tom Gilbert’s behaviorist tract, Human Competence: Engineering Worthy Performance.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 16, 2009

This information engine is the brain child of my pal Tony Karrer whom you know from the eLearning Technology blog, enthusiastic conference presentations, the recent Corporate Learning Trends Event with George Siemens and me, and TechEmpower. Then click on another concept, say, formal learning.

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