Jay Cross

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Whose Learning Are You Responsible For? Last month I conducted several workshops to inject informal and social learning practices into hidebound organizations that were anxious to ramp up to the future. What’s it worth, for example, to offer learning opportunities to potential recruits before they come on board? by Jay Cross.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Classrooms discourage learning. For schools this means that in addition to the three Rs of reading, writing and arithmetic, kids should be learning critical thinking, innovation, creativity, and problem solving, all of the skills one can build upon and mesh with the skills of others.”

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Jay Cross

APRIL 7, 2009

Not that SharePoint is the only game in town: IBM ( IBM - news - people ), Oracle ( ORCL - news - people ), SAP ( SAP - news - people ), Sun Microsystems ( JAVA - news - people ) and others offer their own collaboration solutions. Tags: Business learning. Maybe I don’t really want to know.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

You saw such a map of Chief Learning Officer readers who took the time Profile earlier. A landmark study by ASTD and IBM interviewed CLOs and CxOs at 26 leading companies across 11 industries (see The C-level and the Value of Learning , T+D magazine, October 2005). Learning has to bring customers and along the change journey.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Collaboration gets things done and is the most powerful learning tool in the CLO’s playbook. Today’s organizations are learning the power of people working together in real time. The social learning revolution has only just begun. Fewer still are involved with learning for customers, partners, distributors and the supply chain.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

IBM is downsizing radically by spinning out smaller, more manageable units. Integrate learning into the workscape. Working in teams, sharing and collaborating across silos and organizations challenge normal ways of work, recruiting, and learning. I love nothing more than exploring the future and learning from events like this.

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Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2011

7 objections to social media in learning (and answers) - Donald Clark Plan B , June 11, 2011. Making the most of Informal Learning - Jane Hart , June 16, 2011. Making the most of Informal Learning - Jane Hart , June 16, 2011. Social media & learning – note taking on steroids - Donald Clark Plan B , June 20, 2011.

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Jay Cross

JULY 20, 2012

Also, I learned dozens of other little tricks that I’ll probably forget if I don’t put them to use in the next few days. Research is a large part of my work, so I’ll be applying and building on what I’ve learned about search for years to come. Capitalization makes no difference but word order does. For me, yes.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Wise Chief Learning Officers are thinking about how social networks will augment learning & development. Imagine that a Senior Executive in your company returns from Thanksgiving weekend having read white papers from IBM that say social business is the next step in the overall evolution of business. and learning networks.

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Jay Cross

JULY 10, 2008

Responding to the Big Questions (s) of the month: Should workplace learning professionals be leading the charge around these new work literacies? And then shouldn’t the learning organization become a driver for the organization? Our job is to help create the environment like that IBM describes. Back to the Big Questions.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 15, 2008

“It’s the most productive learning technology I’ve ever used.&# When I draw a blueprint of an ideal enterprise learning environment, it always includes an expertise location function. You see, lots of corporate learning comes from asking other people how to do things. Skeptical or not, I had to try it.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Work Smarter: Informal Learning Enters the Cloud. Chief Learning Officer, 71, 78, 107, 192. Chief Learning Officer magazine, 192. e-learning, 93, 147, 170, 171, 172. Emergent Learning, 170. formal learning, 27, 33, 41, 100, 104, 105, 127. IBM, 24, 119, 120, 187, 188. Learning Light, 192.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The meme of learning was replacing training. Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. I can learn something; you can't learn me something. A big part of the sales pitch for early versions of web-supported learning was the elimination of costly trainers.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 1, 2008

The meme of learning was replacing training. Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. I can learn something; you can’t learn me something. A big part of the sales pitch for early versions of web-supported learning was the elimination of costly trainers.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The meme of learning was replacing training. Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. I can learn something; you can’t learn me something. A big part of the sales pitch for early versions of web-supported learning was the elimination of costly trainers.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 29, 2010

Two of my colleagues at the Internet Time Alliance , Jane Hart and Charles Jennings just returned from speaking at the Learning Technologies conference in London. The conference program would lead you to assume that the Learning Technologies conference would be a hotbed of social and informal learning. Jane & Charles.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

What Universities Must Learning About Social Networks. Increasingly, businesses are looking to more social approaches to employee learning and development. IBM describes socially networked corporations as the next step in the overall evolution of business. No one learns alone either. It takes a team to get things done.

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Jay Cross

MAY 26, 2015

Learning Ecosystem, Learning Ecology, and Learnscape mean the same thing as Workscape. I don’t use the word learn with executives, who inevitably think back to the awfulness of school and close their ears. In the same vein, I talk about Working Smarter instead of informal learning, social learning, and so forth.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. I’ll be leading a series of master classes on informal learning and working smarter in Europe. Informal Learning – the other 80%. Employees and partners with more capacity to learn are more versatile in adapting to future conditions.

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Jay Cross

MAY 1, 2012

An IBM Global CEO Study conducted in 2010 concluded that complexity was the primary challenge emerging out of its conversations with 1,500 CEOs and senior government officials. Flipping Corporate Learning . Flipping learning is big in education. It will be big in corporate learning. How do you flip learning?

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Working Smarter Daily points to ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 list is revealed. E-Learning Generations . MOOCs are a platform.

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Jay Cross

JULY 2, 2012

If you haven’t had time to keep up with what’s going on in learning, design, social business, and intellectual capital this year, here’s a reprieve: the top 50 articles from the last six months. Flipping Corporate Learning . Flipping learning is big in education. It will be big in corporate learning.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2011

In this 2011 edition, we added a more lucid description of workscapes, streamlined the social learning chapter, updated the cheat sheets, and included a glossary. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. It’s the platform where learning and work transpire. Workscapes. Workscapes are pervasive.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 2, 2013

Show an Apple logo to people subliminally and they think more creatively than people who are shown an IBM logo. Like it or not, environmental factors like these have huge impact on how well or poorly people learn. As work becomes increasingly fast-paced and complex, more learning takes place on the job. Just Jay Workscaping'

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