Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here’s a six-year old article on informal learning I discovered while Googling for material on learning transfer. Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency. Studies that have investigated managerial informal learning in the workplace have demonstrated its pervasiveness.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Here are the most popular posts on the Informal Learning Blog in 2009. Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning. T o implement social/informal learning infrastructure projects, learning and development professionals need to shift their focus from learning to earning. Power of informal learning in developing managers.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2007

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AUGUST 29, 2006

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 14, 2010

Best of Informal Learning Flow. Workscape evolution - Informal Learning , May 7, 2010. Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know Google Maps Could Do [Lifehacker Top 10] - Lifehacker , May 1, 2010. Finding questions that Google can’t answer - edublogs , June 9, 2010. Information (1697). Google (1149).

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Informal Learning Flow is back! It’s my one-stop-shop for keeping up with things that influence informal learning — and generally don’t show up on traditional learning sites. Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried - ReadWriteWeb , December 13, 2009. Tags: Informal Learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2011

I look at Google and see that they have $8 billion in fancy kitchen equipment and server farms, and the stock market values the company at $157 billion—so where is that other $150 billion? LXB: How does that differentiate a new-era organization such as Google from a company such as Buggy Whips International? It has context.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 18, 2009

to discover a juror had Googled information about the defendants. Using Google and Wikipedia for fact-checking are becoming the way of life. The judge in a big Federal drug trial in Florida was shocked ( shocked !) Do judges really expect people to turn off their access to facts from the world at large?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 27, 2009

Google Docs/collaborative writing. Smart Search, e.g. Informal Learning Flow. Google for an ever-greater array of services. RSS Reader. YouTube, SlideShare. Skype/Instant messaging. Learner redefined. Prospering in community with others. Becoming who you are. Getting good at what you do. Figuring out how to do a good job.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Here are the top sites from Informal Learning Flow for September 2009. Corporations need to catch up on open content - Informal Learning , September 17, 2009. Google Wave (continued): The Conversation Becomes the Process, and Even the Product , September 13, 2009. Google Sidewiki , September 24, 2009. Featured Sources.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Before Google scanned and digitized 7 million books and Wikipedia users created the world’s largest encyclopedia. What WGU is doing is using the Internet to disaggregate the various functions of teaching: the “sage on the stage&# conveyor of information, the cheerleader and helpmate, and the evaluator.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

When information abounds, peers take over. People who hoard information shoot themselves in the foot: Nobody will know who they are. Google figures a superlative engineer creates 200 times as much value as his middle-tier peer. I expect attitudes like Internet values to underpin exemplary corporate learning in the future.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 16, 2009

Since you chose your topic rather than being told, you’re more likely to retain information you find. In the realm of informal learning, I learn from David Weinberger, George Siemens, Nancy White, Ross Dawson, Mark Oehlert, Marcia Conner, and dozens of others. Go to the site and click on a concept, say, informal learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 28, 2009

Informal Learning takes place in the context of work and life. Hence, the articles and posts from Informal Learning Flow aren’t confined to what you’ll find in training magazines and learning conferences. Informal Learning 2.0 - Internet Time , August 7, 2009. Just Google Me , August 10, 2009. Google (549).

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 1, 2008

Informal Learning Blog. is as informal as it gets. How well would extreme informal learning work with people whose minds have already been polluted with schooling? Keen told the audience that at Google, no one was in charge; the kids are running the show. Classrooms in the wild — Informal Learning Blog on 05.14.08

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Unprecedented changes in the role of the worker, the nature of business, the pace of innovation, the importance of intangibles, the explosion of information, and the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy have rendered traditional corporate learning obsolete. Most of the learning going on is informal.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

Informal Learning 2.0 When I look at Informal Learning Flow , an aggregator that works over the sites I visit to keep informed, it’s a totally hedgehogian experience. The Latest from Informal Learning Flow. is for foxes, not hedgehogs? These are all pieces of the puzzle. Showing page 1 of 6655.

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