Jay Cross

JANUARY 6, 2015

Gather information about products, techniques, trends. Learn the basics of L&D from experts. Form opinions on Big Data, informal learning, LMS, Open API, MOOCs, and other buzz-topics. First of all, Why do people attend conferences? Participants attend conferences to network and to learn. Attend workshops and be certified.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

Not only does it confirm the significant frequency of informal learning, it demonstrates that informal learning shows up in many ways: e-Learning, traditional book study, social learning, and experience.” Finally, here’s a summary of Informal Learning.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Work with a recognized expert. Curate information and share with others. The Forum offers a vast repository of practical information and connects members with a vibrant global community of fellow practitioners. Email me for information on working with the Alliance. He literally wrote the book on Informal Learning.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 11, 2013

the training department and information. Create incentives for informal learning and. formal courses with informal learning. to enable greater multiuse of digital content for formal and informal. Foster a good partnership between. technology. Again, not just in this instance. Create meaningful learning. objectives.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 31, 2009

It’s more like being poured into a dense soup of experts, mavens, connectors, futurists, entertainers, network theorists, and other humans. Tags: Business learning Informal Learning. I’m spending Wednesday at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. I don’t think of it as “attending a conference.&#

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 12, 2012

It feels like walking by the expert’s desk and seeing all the major lessons on her desktop waiting for you to scoop them up. As an early true believer in performance support, I’ve always favored organizing information so people can benefit from it. And you can linger as long as you wish. There’s a lot to explore.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2011

A few quick impressions from my initial skim of Learning while Working , a summary report on eight years of European research grants and studies of informal learning in the workplace: This is an amazingly Euro-centric report. Implying that trainers have to get on board to implement informal learning is wacky. I disagree.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2012

They provide a variety of means of for workers to get the information they need. Informal chats with colleagues ranked #1, followed by Internet search, and trial and error. Both social and informal are deemed more important by employees than company documents and training. exibility and spark innovation.

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Jay Cross

JULY 13, 2010

Instructors, experts, and peers continually assess performance and are blunt in feeding it back. Of course, like all training, it’s part formal and part informal.). Feedback is constant. Stress, like staying active for 100 hours, simulates real-life situations. Shared hardships bond participants.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Businesses are changing and at the forefront of this push for change is Jay Cross, chair of the Internet Time Alliance and informal expert. Organisations have discovered that treating people like robots leads to hostility, dissatisfaction and resentment towards management.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

Learning expert Robert Brinkerhoff figures only about 15 percent of formal training lessons change behavior. Email me for information on working with the Alliance. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay’s calling is to create happier, more productive workplaces. About GoToTraining. Online Training Made Easy™.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Cross believes the era of traditional course-led training is coming to an end and that informal, social learning is the way forward. The CEO of the Internet Time Corporation is currently writing a book on informal learning, which is his passion. Informal learning, says Cross, happens without any pre-set curriculum.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Cross believes the era of traditional course-led training is coming to an end and that informal, social learning is the way forward. The CEO of the Internet Time Corporation is currently writing a book on informal learning, which is his passion. Informal learning, says Cross, happens without any pre-set curriculum.

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Jay Cross

JULY 20, 2012

A pre-search can inform the real search. Dan is a very savvy subject matter expert. Previously I approached Google searches much like looking something up in an encyclopedia or dictionary. I’d check the term and leave it at that. After the course, I treat search more as an iterative process.

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Jay Cross

MAY 30, 2009

Companies should embrace network-supported informal learning because it works better, not because it reduces labor costs. Expert moderators may vet the accuracy and clarity of information in their domains. They understand how adults learn and how to transform information into learning.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 16, 2008

They searched the web for experts, and Cross was the only name they came up with. Five years ago, an influential white paper entitled Informal Learning - the Other 80% appeared on Internet Time blog. Cross has become the authority on informal learning. He works at the intersection of learning, performance, and Enterprise 2.0.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Knowledge is not a commodity to be traded between expert and novice. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” “We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.” Bill Vaughn. Rosamar Garcia. Knowledge is of two kinds.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Past: Subject Matter Experts. Feature | Block RobTorio Learning from L&D experts at Learning Trends 2009 #learntrends -10:40 AM Nov 18th, 2009. Past: Subject Matter Experts. Tags: Informal Learning. Feature | Block trishuhl @ #learntrends – Free learning conference! link] -10:54 AM Nov 18th, 2009.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 29, 2010

The conference program would lead you to assume that the Learning Technologies conference would be a hotbed of social and informal learning. social learning environment enables more informal learning. Social and informal learning are not on their radar. The Informal Learning Page. Jane & Charles. BT’s new web 2.0

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Cross believes the era of traditional course-led training is coming to an end and that informal, social learning is the way forward. The CEO of the Internet Time Corporation is currently writing a book on informal learning, which is his passion. Informal learning, says Cross, happens without any pre-set curriculum.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Cross believes the era of traditional course-led training is coming to an end and that informal, social learning is the way forward. The CEO of the Internet Time Corporation is currently writing a book on informal learning, which is his passion. Informal learning, says Cross, happens without any pre-set curriculum.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Cross believes the era of traditional course-led training is coming to an end and that informal, social learning is the way forward. The CEO of the Internet Time Corporation is currently writing a book on informal learning, which is his passion. Informal learning, says Cross, happens without any pre-set curriculum.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

They etched away at the hallowed plaque of “what it means to be an expert”. But we (and I mean all course participants, not just Stephen and I) managed to explore what is possible online. People self-organized in their prefered spaces. They learned in transparent environments, and in the process, became teachers to others. License.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The Community Roundtable is a virtual table where social media and community practitioners gather to meet, discuss challenges, celebrate successes, and hear from experts. The more informal you make it, the more you recognize opportunities to learn. She has a great array of how-to tips. Lead from the back. Set up boundary conditions.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 26, 2010

The 50,000 foot view of what’s going on in social networks and informal learning has changed very little In the last five years. Your editor gets affiliated with some experts to bring you the real story. You want to find information faster and cut out the less useful, or under-performing parts of your network.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 18, 2011

Knowledge is not a commodity to be traded between expert and novice. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” “We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.” Bill Vaughn. Rosamar Garcia. Knowledge is of two kinds.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Schultz and Leonard discuss how Premier achieves its mission, “to analyze and share knowledge nationwide to improve the health of communities,” by sharing clinical knowledge and experience across 1,700 not-for-profit member hospitals and health services experts. Social tools are changing our world and our enterprises.

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Jay Cross

MAY 23, 2008

Informal Learning – the other 80%. informal learning. expert locators. Co nnectivism, recently coined by George Siemens, makes it explicit that the learner is augmented with connections to networks of people and information. Last year, in an informal history of eLearning , I wrote: Learning isn’t content.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Moderator (Harold Jarche): though informal can work for new hires too: [link]. What I hear right now is a lot about information services - becoming information experts in the organization and connecting employees to people and content to enable their work. Jenna Papakalos: Leverage what is happening in the market.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 11, 2014

If a group doesn’t exist for facilitate your informal learning, make one. Formal learning takes place in classrooms; informal learning happens in workscapes. Developing a platform to support informal learning is analogous to landscaping a garden. Let me learn from YouTube, an FAQ, or linking to an expert.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 2, 2012

Social L&D optimizes learning by making it easy for workers, novices and old hands alike, to find the information they need from FAQs and knowledge bases or from coaches, experts and peers. Instead of tracking butts in seats, they monitor the fow on information in social networks and its impact on key business metrics.

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Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2013

Desired traits in the modern knowledge worker: Gifts and skills: A synthetic mind that can ingest a lot of information and summarise it in clear and concise ways, perhaps using mnemonics.A

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Jay Cross

MAY 26, 2015

In the same vein, I talk about Working Smarter instead of informal learning, social learning, and so forth. Some people denigrate informal learning but nobody’s against Working Smarter. That’s where all the informal and social learning we hear about is taking place. Access to information. building self-sufficient teams.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

How do I search for information?”. Reduced email traffic and information overload. Social and informal learning are the hottest trends in corporation learning and development. Faculty use social networks to support communication and information sharing among committees, teams, and research projects. No one works alone.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Experts at OEB 2009 called for caution. For more information on Hauke Heekeren, please refer to [link]. Some “Brain Experts” Sell “Snake Oil&#. The suggestions of these ‘experts’ are often banal: “They explain how a low glucose level in the brain metabolism affects learning. By Andrea Marshall.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Social/informal learning is crossing the chasm to mainstream acceptance. These environments empower people to find any formal or informal learning resource from a single place. Seventy to ninety percent of what we learn is learned informally. But how do we facilitate informal learning in the workplace? Learning is mobile.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

Every business decision is made with less than perfect information, and every decision entails taking a risk. Every business decision is made with less than perfect information, and every decision entails taking a risk. Saying “We don’t have enough information” is not an acceptable excuse. He who hesitates is lost.

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