Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 3, 2010

Examples on how to apply Informal Learning. We’ll look at examples of organizations using the web to accelerate learning and spark innovation. • Compelling reasons to invest in Informal Learning. I plan to describe informal learning already taking place in organizations, often flying beneath the radar.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The college experience is a perfect example. One no longer needs to own a television station, a printing press, or a broadcast transmitter to disseminate information, for example. Learning from others is neither new nor revolutionary; it has just been ignored by most of our educational institutions.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2009

For example, McCall et al. 1988) found that of thirty-five managerial job skills (for example, negotiating skills), managers developed thirty of them through informal learning (for example, job assignments). Studies that have investigated managerial informal learning in the workplace have demonstrated its pervasiveness.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Alexander’s The Nature of Order and his website tout my neighbor’s house as an example of a successful owner-designed home. For example, with our first rainstorm, water blew right through the walls into their daughter’s bedroom. The owners loath him.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 9, 2010

For example, the current issue describes Clouds, big data, and smart assets : Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch. I enjoy McKinsey Quarterl y because it addresses the Big Picture. McKinsey Quarterly frequently highlights trends that will ripple down through many aspects of the global business environment.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2009

He will provide case examples of organisations that are taking advantage of Twitter, blogs, wikis, and other social networking tools. Jay will present cases studies, research findings and examples. Organisations are finding huge benefits in getting concrete about informal learning, social learning and self-service learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 26, 2008

In Berlin, we continued this theme with half a dozen “ mountain guides &# who chimed in with examples and wisdom, and made themselves available for networking throughout the event. Here’s an example from 2007.) Here’s one guide’s take on the Berlin unworkshop. I love doing these events.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 27, 2010

Examples on how to apply Informal Learning. What are the different ways people learn? Assess when and where Informal Learning is appropriate. How do people ‘learn’ their jobs? Compelling reasons to invest in Informal Learning. Part of UMBC’s mission is to provide service.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Coach: What are examples of offline informal learning? Coach: And examples of online informal learning? Three hallmarks of formal learning are: a curriculum, a schedule and recognition upon completion (even if only a checkmark in an LMS). Jay: Learning to walk, talk, eat, kiss, smooch, run or ride a bicycle.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

For example, executives look beyond mere execution to their readiness to change strategies. Maybe it’s just me, but everywhere I turn, people are looking at things from a higher level of abstraction. They’re seeing a bigger picture by rising above the immediate situation. (I I dubbed this the Helicopter pattern recently.).

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 31, 2009

Seeing examples reduces the risk of misinterpretation. Simulate the environment your process will take place, or, 3. Prototype your solution with actors and props. Acting out forces you to be concrete. It makes ideas come alive. Drama is memorable. It’s such a pity when great concepts never make it off the drawing board.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 26, 2008

In Berlin, we continued this theme with half a dozen “ mountain guides &# who chimed in with examples and wisdom, and made themselves available for networking throughout the event. Here’s an example from 2007.) Here’s one guide’s take on the Berlin unworkshop. I love doing these events.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The sentence “This sentence contains thirty-six letters,&# and the sentence it is embedded in, are examples of sentences that reference themselves in this way. The network of nodes and connectors is at the meta level. Finding a bottle neck in a system. Understanding the patterns of communication in a network.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Take blogs, for example. The space program put men on the moon and gave us Tang for breakfast. Now, innovation often goes the other way. Things start with consumers and are later adopted by corporations. Ten years ago, the term blogosphere was invented — as a joke. Blogs were geeky lists of pointers and commentary.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

For example, instructional designers no longer have time to develop formal courses. . * Working with management to fund and develop appropriate tools and processes for workers. The only certainty about the future from here on out is that it won’t resemble the past.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 5, 2009

What’s it worth, for example, to offer learning opportunities to potential recruits before they come on board? Take me, for example. An organization that is committed to working smarter needs to assess the impact of helping employees learn at every step in their career cycle with the company.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Take a new training initiative, for example, a new product rollout. The consequences can be scary, like astronauts contemplating the fact that their spacecraft was contracted out to the lowest bidder. Benefit analysis. Picture the training in your mind’s eye. Okay, now think about how you could improve the learning taking place.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 27, 2010

Here’s an example. The sooner workers are productive, the larger their contribution to the organization. This makes time-to-performance, the amount of time required to begin performing at target levels, a vital metric. At the end of the last century, Sun Microsystems was a high-flier in the workstation business.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 29, 2010

This is an example. Top Informal Learning links for the first month of 2010. Yesterday’s #lrnchat was on crowdsourcing. The crowd picks this list, not I. Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English - Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English - , January 6, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 8, 2009

For example, Scientific American Mind has a brief interview with Judith Harris, author of the controversial 1998 book The Nurture Assumption , Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do. My search for innovation finds me mashing up concepts from corporate culture with those from other disciplines.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

For example, I have no qualms about walking out of a boring presentation, even if I’ve been sitting in the front row. Chief Learning Officer magazine , Effectiveness, April 2009. by Jay Cross. The Internet is so pervasive that Internet values are blowing back into real life.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

For example, I have no qualms about walking out of a boring presentation, even if I’ve been sitting in the front row. ADDIE (analyze, design, develop, implement & evaluate) made it possible to manage the process of creating useful training programs systematically. Internet culture.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 11, 2009

Specialty areas, for example language learning, will be outsourced. Companies will eliminate measurement and control systems that do not deliver value. Good bye to the fancy LMS. Travel is easy to ban and yields an immediate, tangible cost saving. Virtual delivery and meetings will boom. Bottom-up learning will come into its own.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2008

An example: Most executives don’t realize that there’s more to leading learning than gut feel. In the workplace, teamwork is esteemed; in school, learning with others is called cheating. Training has adopted most of this bad baggage from school. Trainers can fall into the same trap.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Give us a few examples. Can’t think of any examples that cover all of these. Response 46 Organization, quality of speakers, multiple themes, EDUCAUSE ELI is by far the best example I have experienced for overall quality, service to its attendee community. Here are the raw results. 4) What makes a conference great?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2011

Procter & Gamble is a good example. And it is going to be shared with workers and this group of people we don’t have a name for—the people who used to be on the payroll: outsourced, or consultants, or some other thing. And customers are going to be involved. They are the West Point of brand management. Talk about opening the door.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 9, 2007

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 21, 2010

Example : A person interested in becoming rich might seek out books or classes on ecomomics, investment, great financiers, banking, etc. Student centered-learning means reversing the traditional teacher-centered understanding of the learning process and putting students at the centre of the learning process.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 12, 2009

We looked at an example where a combination of eLearning, performance support, and structured activities led to billions of dollars in new revenue. Measuring the impact of an ecosystem is a different exercise from evaluating a single program. Often the payback is so enormous that precision is unnecessary.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 19, 2009

On the client side (people who are hungry to implement Virtual World Technologies within their enterprises) I have heard an ongoing plea for TANGIBLE EXAMPLES of how Virtual World solutions have solved REAL Business Problems and delivered REAL Business Results. NOT ANYMORE ; ). VIrtual world technology is advancing at a tremendous pace.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 12, 2010

You can learn a lot about cause and effect by interviewing a sample of workers in depth. Given an adequate sample size, you can reliably generalize about the whole group. The only thing that counts is business results. The arbiter of business results is the executive who’s footing the bill.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 1, 2008

The Pergamon has splendid examples of cuneiform on tables, columns, and cylinders. The booty is breathtaking: the immense Pergamon steps and altar, the mightiest palace of Babylon with its Ishtar Gate, mythic figures from Abysinnia, and six-thousand year old statuary. Books would not make the scene for some time. 5 comments ↓ #1.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 13, 2010

For example, organizations that are serious about raising their collective intelligence should consider putting treadmills and stationary bicycles in their hallways. For example, I ask one group to read a list of words; I ask another group to read the list of words and think what each of them means. Consciousness.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2008

The August piece ended with a learning example. It’s what happens when people strive together. It’s called collaboration. My columns for CLO are limited to 750 words. Form over function?) In the past, organizations often sent a single individual to an outside meeting, believing that he or she would bring the message home to share.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2008

The August piece ended with a learning example. It’s what happens when people strive together. It’s called collaboration. My columns for CLO are limited to 750 words. Form over function?) In the past, organizations often sent a single individual to an outside meeting, believing that he or she would bring the message home to share.

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