Jay Cross

APRIL 30, 2015

My professional interest is shifting to helping knowledge workers learn and flourish without training. Thinking about learning from the learner’s point of view is different from looking on it as a learning executive or instructional designer. It’s the underground passageway to success.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 25, 2015

This is one of thousands of findings from benchmarking studies drawing on the experiences of more than 3,500 L&D professionals and 16,000 learners. WHAT DO LEARNERS VALUE HIGHLY FOR LEARNING? Benchmarking provides independent evidence that can helps organizations: Set a baseline today to help demonstrate progress tomorrow.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 20, 2015

Our goal is to help them. These foundations help me understand what’s going on to this day: “The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.” Some learners are active, others merely receptive. Learners teach. ” Charles Handy. ” H.G.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 1, 2013

Help me out; win a prize. Engaging Learners by Clark Quinn. Something old, something new, something small, something larger… for the most part, you have recipes that make learning more profitable and pleasant. I don’t want to overlook stuff that’s easy to do and particularly effective.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 17, 2012

The learner can watch the mini-lectures when it’s convenient to do so. The learner controls the pace by pausing, replaying, or fast-forwarding. Learners convene to get answers to questions, discuss examples, put what they’ve learned in context, debate, explore, and extend their knowledge.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 23, 2012

Co-host Jenny Zhu filled me in on how this Shanghai-based company is helping adult learners, 60% of them from the U.S., Most of Chinese Pod’s learners are 25-50 year old adults who are learning Chinese for personal growth, as a hobby, or because they have Chinese spouses or kids. attain fluency.

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Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

This is a key dynamic that helps explain the power of apprenticeship and the attendant tools of mentoring and peer coaching. We are all natural lifelong learners. What if the learning experiences you help make happen were directly integrated with the work processes that exist on the job? Learning is an act of participation.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

It’s stupid to keep secrets from customers and partners who can help you. How do you build relationships that help you sustain the right kinds of connections? Building out relationships through social networking is not just an HR issue – it’s connected to the ability to become a lifelong learner. This is a radical shift.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Learners convene to get answers to questions, discuss examples, put what they’ve learned in context, debate, explore, and extend their knowledge. Instructors, freed of the need to mouth the words of lessons, focus on helping learners understand things and coaching individuals.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

Understanding the needs of the learners and following up after the event are also essential for formal learning success. Providing stretch experiences that help their team members learn and develop. Taking time to reflect and help team members learn from experience. Let them know you don’t expect them to train their people.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 22, 2011

How about getting learners to pull content to themselves? “How I can help you?&# As for delivering the same thing to everyone, isn’t this counter to personalization, choice, and learning at the time of need? This same vendor once called to tell me that the organization had a new strategy.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 22, 2015

Help people make sense of and prosper in the world and the workplace. Learning is experiential, and stretch assignments give learners new experiences. Most learning is self-directed. Give people the freedom to chart their course. Make sure resources are readily available and easy to find. Conversations are the stem cells of learning.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2012

They have set up social networks for alumni and help them keep up with new developments. Since learning improves performance, it’s in your interest to help these people learn to do better work. Help your customers become better at serving their own needs. How self-directed learners learn. Many alumni are future customers.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

He discussed a form of knowledge that would involve learners thinking about and confronting themselves with the uncertainties and dilemmas in their own lives. Learning is at the heart of personal change and transformation, and the learner needs to take risks and deal with changing situations in his or her environment.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Successfully Market to Learners. Seven years ago, Lance Dublin and I wrote a book entitled Implementing eLearning. The cover explained… Here Is How To: Manage the Change to E-Learning. Create an Implementation Strategy. These are the 100 most frequently used words in this book.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 5, 2012

Charles Jennings responded, Jesse responded to Charles, and I could not help but join the fray, writing: Jesse, we see things differently. Learners who take ownership of problems and solutions become intrinsically motivated by pride of accomplishment. They can be targeted toward developing particular skills.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

And help you open other people’s minds. . Learner Experience Design. Anyone can draw. It will open your mind. Picture your users. Empathize with them. Respect them. What are their motives? Their likes? Tell stories about them. Especially important for engineers (because “they don’t get empathy.”).

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Jay Cross

JUNE 27, 2011

Michael Allen said, “There is no such thing as a bored learner. If a student is bored, little learning is going on.&# Helping students see the context of what we are teaching, and how it fits into their lives, is usually the short path the teaching relevance and non-boring instruction.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

Learners can give more than they take by sharing what they learned and how they learned it with others. “One way to utilize spacing is to change the definition of a learning event to include the connotation that learning takes place over time real learning doesn’t unusually occur in one-time events.”

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

The curriculum is dynamic and learners get to change and modify it. I listen to their stories and I do my best to understand where they want to get, and then I help them identify possible critical points, as well as the alternative roads available to them.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

Understanding the needs of the learners and following up after the event are also essential for formal learning success. Rather, the focus is on helping people perform better. The Internet Time Alliance helps clients understand and embrace complexity and adopt new ways of working and learning. About the Internet Time Alliance.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 30, 2010

Making it easier for them to get to information, to find one another, to learn through collaboration and by accessing meaningful self-service performance support, will strengthen the organization and “help sharp people become sharper.”. From the abstract to the specific. As I said on Twitter one night, “I am 93.2% 8:30 to 10 PM ET.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Learning needs to be focused on what the learner needs to know, and how they prefer to learn, and if it can be timed right too then it’s going to be even more effective. This may help to explain the explosion of successful coaching models that are really Socratic dialogues. I do not advocate chaos. Get a life, Steven.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2008

Formal learning tends to be expensive; informal cuts costs because it’s learner-driven. To get your wheels turning, here’s a list of more than fifty business problems informal learning can help solve. Better that it’s your informed choice than someone else’s across-the-board cuts. Be decisive.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Customer-learners keep coming back. You can set up an online social learning community without waiting in line for IT to help. Combining learning and marketing is win-win. Here’s why: 1. Informed customers are better customers. They know the goods. They trust the brand. They buy more. Learning relationships are two-way.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Moderator (Clark Quinn): @amy conceptualize the broader perspective re: learners, learning components? Moderator (Harold Jarche): ADDIE cannot help develop emergent practices - they're in th efuture, not the past; no best practices to model. A structure for folks to have some common language- can help with adoption.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Learning needs to be focused on what the learner needs to know, and how they prefer to learn, and if it can be timed right too then it’s going to be even more effective. This may help to explain the explosion of successful coaching models that are really Socratic dialogues. I do not advocate chaos. Get a life, Steven.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Learning needs to be focused on what the learner needs to know, and how they prefer to learn, and if it can be timed right too then it’s going to be even more effective. This may help to explain the explosion of successful coaching models that are really Socratic dialogues. I do not advocate chaos. Get a life, Steven.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Learning needs to be focused on what the learner needs to know, and how they prefer to learn, and if it can be timed right too then it’s going to be even more effective. This may help to explain the explosion of successful coaching models that are really Socratic dialogues. I do not advocate chaos. Get a life, Steven.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Esteemed co-learners, your job is to create new co-learning communities. is in progress and you can help! Your workscape may include being coached on giving effective presentations, calling the help desk for an explanation, and researching an industry on the Net. The people are free-range learners. Version 2.0

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Learning needs to be focused on what the learner needs to know, and how they prefer to learn, and if it can be timed right too then it’s going to be even more effective. This may help to explain the explosion of successful coaching models that are really Socratic dialogues. I do not advocate chaos. See [link].

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Jay Cross

MARCH 2, 2012

The fabric of the social business must incorporate structures and guidance to help people learn. After all, learning underpins continuous improvement and helping to create a culture of continuous improvement is what this is all about. What it takes. New scope of learning.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The most valuable aspect of MOOCs is that the large number of learners enables the formation of sub-networks based on interested, geography, language, or some other attribute that draws individuals together. global flood of learners has turned up for courses on every imaginable topic. MORE >> GEORGE SIEMENS. MARCH 10, 2013.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Google has tapped the power of online collaboration to solve business problems and engage learners. Arguably, we have significantly more data about our learners than Amazon.com has about their customers, and yet we do practically nothing to leverage that data to customize the learning experience. Learning 2.0 Marc Rosenberg.

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Jay Cross

MAY 24, 2011

In informal learning situations, when someone is struggling, others step in to help in “real time.”. It includes events, is generally static and the end result is that the learner comes away knowing things. Dirty words: training, learner eLearning, informal, social, school, learning. It is a fluid, holistic, process.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

Training directors see learners; everyone else sees workers or employees.). The training director’s objective is to help his sponsors achieve their goals. Business managers set objectives; training directors help achieve them. Helping workers learn how to improve their learning skills. Knowledge Workers.

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Jay Cross

MAY 26, 2015

It’s your job to help the system thrive. Helping an experienced person impacts the bottom line immediately. The Workscape should address the needs of learners throughout the extended enterprise. It’s the biggest frame of the big picture. It’s relationships and culture and secret sauce. It’s the organization as organism.

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