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

JANUARY 29, 2010

Top Informal Learning links for the first month of 2010. Google and China: What’s the real story, and where does it go from here? - OReilly Radar , January 14, 2010. Open course-wars, redux… the real nastiness is elsewhere - Abject Learning , January 5, 2010. I find lists like this great for serendipitous learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Every morning, my email is littered with very basic questions about informal learning. I’ve been ranting about informal and computer-supported learning in organizations for twelve years now. I’m the Johnny Appleseed of networked, social learning. In fact, the buzz about informal learning seems to grow every day.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 19, 2007

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 29, 2006

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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. New roles for former trainers.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

In the network era, learning is the work. This book advocates investing in learning that demonstrably improves organizational performance. Pragmatic and grounded in experience, this is a re-think of how organizational learning can increase profits, spur innovation, and help businesses prosper. Learning is not schooling.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2011

He also has some very strong opinions on the future of workplace learning. He has spoken with executives, marketers, entrepreneurs, chief learning officers, sales staff, instructional designers, HR directors, bankers, and academics. I thought it was more than a little striking that P&G traded workers with Google.

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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. 40%-50% were using some sort of social media to enhance corporate learning. 40% found some value in social learning, and another 20% found high value. Only 5% said more that 80%.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 27, 2009

Learning Technologies 2009. Learning technologies: the road ahead. Collaborative Learning; Blip.fm Google Docs/collaborative writing. Smart Search, e.g. Informal Learning Flow. Jay’s learning ecosystem. Google for an ever-greater array of services. Track 1 Session 1. URL for this page:[link].

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Google Wave is the johnny-come-lately. Just as the Google Search Appliance enables companies to find needles in haystacks behind their firewalls, Wave is likely to replace lots of wikis and content management systems. Most people, me included, have a hard time getting their minds around it. Or you could collaborate simultaneously.

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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. Swimming in Data?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Here are the top sites from Informal Learning Flow for September 2009. 9 presentations on 9/9/09 - Workplace Learning Today , September 9, 2009. US Gov Report on Online Learning – a must read - Donald Clark Plan B , September 8, 2009. Corporations need to catch up on open content - Informal Learning , September 17, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

From the overview : While a keynote speaker is presenting, back channel conversations occur through Twitter, facts are checked through Google searches, and opinions are expressed on blogs.* The Learning Technologies conference in London last month held its own — but most of the attendees could take The Underground to get there.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 1, 2011

Computer-based learning is a high-priced sham , bound to stunt the emotional and intellectual growth of our children, argues William Rukeyser … [ more ]. This was pre-Google. Chance and necessity don’t account for everything. The notion of an aggregator with intelligent selections was a breakthrough.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

Chief Learning Officer magazine , Effectiveness, April 2009. I expect attitudes like Internet values to underpin exemplary corporate learning in the future. Think of learning as a partnership with learners, not “delivery.”. In learning, being authentic means admitting we don’t have all the answers. by Jay Cross.

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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. togetherLearn and CLO magazine recently conducted a survey on meta-learning. But that was then — before MP3s and iPods proved just how freely music could flow. It is a bandwidth issue.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2007

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FEBRUARY 13, 2007

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 16, 2009

Professional learning is increasingly driven by demand, not supply. You decide what you need or want to learn and you go get it when you feel like it. 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. Until today.

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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. WHAT IS LEARNING? Organisms only stop learning when they die.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 28, 2009

Informal Learning takes place in the context of work and life. Learnscaping — taking a systems view of learning in an organization — necessarily addresses a broad array of topics and disciplines. Informal Learning 2.0 - Internet Time , August 7, 2009. Shifting from push to pull - Informal Learning , August 3, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 1, 2008

Informal Learning Blog. At another location, a thirteen-year old learned to browse in eight minutes; by the end of the day, seventy children were browsing. Several weeks later, he returned to find that the children had learned anatomy. Half the instructions were wrong, but it did not matter; everyone learned nonetheless.

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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. The issue becomes “what’s the puzzle?&#.

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