Jay Cross

JUNE 12, 2013

Informal learning in a nutshell is giving control to the learner and setting up an environment that encourages experimentation and discovery.” People don’t like being told what to do and they usually don’t remember what they’re told for very long. ” 702010'

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Informal Learning Informal Video Trust 44

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Here’s a provocative article by John Seely Brown and Doug Thomas, Cultivating the Imagination: Building Learning Environments for Innovation. JSB and Doug Thomas argue that imagination and creativity are entirely different from one another. Creativity is problem-solving; imagination is building worlds in the mind.

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Problem Learning Environment Innovation Environment 56

Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

The “scape” part underscores the need to deal at the level of the learning environment or ecology. The “learn” part highlights the importance of baking the principles of sound learning into that environment rather than leaving it to chance. Learners are pulled to informal learning.

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Learning 2.0 Informal Learning Informal Cognitive 75

Jay Cross

JANUARY 21, 2010

Amazon’s blurb: Understanding the impact that 3D environments, virtual worlds, and immersive learning spaces will have on society, business, and learning is a challenge. I haven’t read the book yet (maybe this weekend), but I’m intrigued by the way Tony and Karl are publicizing it.

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Virtual World Social Networks Facebook Web 40

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

“Knowledge games are models of business scenarios, environments and interactions. AEIOU = Activity, Environment, Interaction, Objects, Users). We modeled a stranded passenger dealing with an airline’s telephone customer support, both real and how it might be. Gamestorming. ” Cognitive Apprenticeship. Make a model.

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Cognitive Toys Coaching Diversity Training 68

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 16, 2011

My friend Jerry Michalski has been linking his thoughts for a long, long time in the hypertext environment known as The Brain. Click a few links to explore his thinking. All thinking is linking. Looking at another person’s links shows you their reality. I preach the importance of transparency and narrating your work.

Brain 40

Brain Environment Personalization Personal 40

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Faced with the demands of an ever more complex world, today’s learning is being delivered in a multiplicity of forms and a variety of new environments. Modern education is evolving into a different shape. What will the shape of future learning look like? How are we changing learning to meet our new demands? How is learning changing us?

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Pedagogy Community Education Expertise 57

Jay Cross

AUGUST 30, 2010

The challenge in today’s workplace environment is finding the time to walk the minimum amount of steps required to improve mental processes. Walking is part of my personal learning environment. Additionally, the study found that walking also improves cognition and combats the decline in brain function normally associated with aging.

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Cognitive Brain Network Study 55

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

I learned a lot about how he works in an anthropological sense. While there, I was so happy to meet fellow #lrnchat-ter Jane Hart (@C4LPT) and one of my idols, Harold Jarche (@hjarche).

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 31, 2012

I plan to talk about the shift from push learning to pull that refocuses language learning from courses to learning environments. On Thursday, I’ll be addressing the social web and its impact on practical education at Expo-Langues in Paris. Du pousser au tirer. . Now I seem to bring snow and ice.

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Web Learning Environment Innovation Discussion 38

Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

People learn more in an environment that encourages conversation, so make sure you’re fostering an environment where people talk to each other. Effective managers encourage their team members to buddy up on projects, to shadow others and to participate in professional social networks. amateur photographers).

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Social Networks Social Network Communities of Practice Lesson 83

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Participants created four scenarios for the future environment of learning. You might want to check out Learning Technology in European Businesses 2011 , a report from Toward Maturity that was issued at the event. Shell’s Willem Manders and Hans de Zwart led a dynamite pre-conference workshop. It’s compelling.

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Diversity Training Online Calendar Lecture 48

Jay Cross

AUGUST 6, 2011

People work in concert, continuously ping their environment is search of opportunity (and looming walls) and share their insights. Instead of erecting walls between departments and functions, flexible organizations tap into a shared flow of intelligence fed by every tributary where action takes place.

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Business Outsource Synchronous Pattern 61

Jay Cross

MARCH 18, 2013

Yet learning to navigate complex environments is totally different than learning to follow procedures and solve bounded problems. Will complex work become the norm by 2020? Everything I’m talking about here is on an accelerated schedule. Faster, faster, faster. There’s more to learn every hour.

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Low Cost IBM Outsource Statistics 41

Jay Cross

JANUARY 5, 2010

His latest project, code-named Zebra, is a powerful, drag-and-drop authoring environment. (In case you didn’t know, Michael was chief architect of Authorware, the precursor to Macromedia and granddaddy of digital authoring systems.). I’m impressed. I expect Zebra to own the market when it becomes available.

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Authoring Macromedia Authorware System 41

Jay Cross

AUGUST 27, 2010

The alternative to dependence on schools is not the use of public resources for some new device which “makes&# people learn; rather it is the creation of a new style of educational relationship between man and his environment.

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Attitudes Alternatives Learning Objects Wikipedia 50

Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

Design the environment to support informal learning. Technology is a key support for informal communities. We need to support natural communities as well, including face-to-face. Develop new practices with an appreciation of the old. Realize that learning off the record is where a lot of really powerful learning occurs.

Communities of Practice 85

Communities of Practice Community Learning Research 85

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The school system is one of the few institutions where lectures, courses conducted in artificial environments away from the context of what’s to be learned, and one-way “push” learning are the norm.

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Journal Lecture Learning Theory Theory 46

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Harold’s schema drew on and expanded the work of our friend Lilia Efimova : Harold applied Lilia’s concepts to a corporate network environment: As Clark pointed out, “The benefits are clear: when folks have maximal information about what they’re expected to do, and minimal barriers to achieve their goals, the organization succeeds.”

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Organization Social Networks Communities of Practice Sun 84

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

What are we if not defined by our environment? And in one of the harshest environments on Earth one of our oldest civilizations became literally as one with the country. A key concept of aboriginal culture is that the aboriginals and the land are one. Wikipedia). Adolescents Aborigines learn through Walkabouts.

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Wiki Wikipedia Write Blog Stock 44

Jay Cross

AUGUST 12, 2010

In a increasingly volatile environment, rigidity is suicidal. It’s time to shed the delusion that we are in control. Logic is oversimplification. What’s a person to do when complexity turns our clockwork universe on its head? But how can we be flexible without being wishy-washy?

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Innovation Predictions Emergent Internet 47

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 4, 2008

03 MLE = managed learning environment, 05 Personal Learning Environment, 08 CWE Collaborative Working Environment. Operating system for learning. authentication. integrate and launch apps. store and manage files. personalize. secure area as well as open. '98

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Open Elluminate Online Technorati 36

Jay Cross

JUNE 3, 2011

Join us to discuss how work, learning, and the environment have changed and what the future holds. Our speaker was the first to use the term eLearning on the web and headed the prestigious eLearning Forum. Now he feels the twenty-first century has rendered the term obsolete. That description leaves a lot of wiggle room.

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Conference Forum Web Discussion 37

Jay Cross

JUNE 17, 2013

This is an inevitable part of moving from Stocks to Flows, from Push to Pull, from institutional control to personal freedom, and from rigid industrialism to flexible, more human work environments. Focus on improving the learning ecology rather than tackle one event at a time.

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Mash-up Mashups Virtual World Stock 65

Jay Cross

JANUARY 26, 2013

Boards have the advantage of being more aware of the external environment than management. Jeff— The guy in Seattle who has used agile throughout his organization is Bill Justice. I’ll try to track down his coordinates. Loretta Donovan. Jim, I agree.

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Management Agile YouTube Slides 41

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 24, 2008

. “All instrumental human behavior–all behavioral components of performance–have two aspects of equal importance: a person with a repertory of behavior (P) and a supporting environment (E). We can therefore define behavior (B) as the product of repertory and environment: B = E x P. Environment. Environment.

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Behavior Performance Support Policies Engineering 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

My programming skills are so lame, I just locked myself out of my personal Drupal environment and can’t find the back door to get in. Hence, I’m turning my attention to something simpler: EtherPad. Give it a shot.

Drupal 36

Drupal Attention Environment Program 36

Jay Cross

JANUARY 16, 2011

“The tricks of the intangible trade will become the tricks of your trade.&# "The aim of swarm power is superior performance in a turbulent environment.&# "To prosper, feed the web first.&# .&# Also New Rules for the New Economy. Also, read We are the Web. Kevin’s thesis is that we need a theory of technology.

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Wiki Technology Sound Photo 53

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 30, 2012

The characters get trapped in a virtual reality environment and when the force field gets hosed, the picture jiggles and sometimes what you thought was the real world begins to pixelate and morph into little cubes. Nearly impossible to put down. I love the way this woman thinks. This is a beautiful book.

Brain 69

Brain IBM Journal Theory 69

Jay Cross

AUGUST 23, 2011

You controlled the environment. In the last century, you achieved consistency by walling off outside influences. You captured the logic of business but buried the emotional baggage that goes with it. You threw out exceptions that made things messy. You can no longer wall things off. Everything’s connected. Reality is messy.

Content 57

Content Engineering Knowledge Management Knowledge 57

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

They learned in transparent environments, and in the process, became teachers to others. Perhaps life circumstances, personal schedule, motivation for participating, confidence, familiarity with the online environment, or numerous other factors, impacted their ability to contribute.

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Knowledge Wiki Write Blog Moodle 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Jane has installed a dozen SoLEARN environments this year including University of London. Now the system hosts courseware. It’s become SoLearn (short to Social Learning) because that’s what it’s about. Jane walks us through SoLEARN. Check out her site to see what this stuff looks like. Users find ELGG quite intuitive.

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LearnTrends Courseware Open Source Site 38

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Building a Social Learning Environment. We aim to explore how to corral the loose pieces of learning technology, both on the web and off, in order to come up with a unified, targeted strategy for moving forward. These people… …will be addressing these topics: Convergence in Learning. Personal Knowledge Management.

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LearnTrends Enterprise 2.0 Learning Objects Diversity Training 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Cross has been striving to educate workplaces and their employees on the benefits of a happy working environment and teaching how small changes can boost productivity, ultimately increasing an organisation’s bottom line.

Attitudes 53

Attitudes Productivity Product Integrate 53

Jay Cross

JULY 28, 2011

Socio-efficiency involves minimizing costs not just in the business but in the environment, communities, and society at large. Haque’s constructive capitalism replaces chasing efficiency with seeking socio-efficiency. Full-cost accounting takes on new meaning.

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Cornerstone Yahoo Community Apple 57

Jay Cross

MAY 9, 2008

At the same time, online opportunities — such as datasets and museums, remote observatories, public art displays, wiki sites, and collaborative research environments–are expanding access to resources, thereby increasing opportunities for faculty, teachers and students to collaborate with and learn from practitioners.

Wiki 36

Wiki Music Collaboration Site 36

Jay Cross

AUGUST 5, 2012

Nurturing informal learning requires working at the platform level; the powers that be create an environment that makes learning on the job second nature. Formal learning occurs at the program level; authorities define the curriculum. Leadership is a complex phenomenon. Scientists have been working on this issue for more than half a century.

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Leadership Learning Behavior Instructional Design 53