Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

There is a thriving industry devoted to publishing learning-styles tests and guidebooks for teachers, and many organizations offer professional development workshops for teachers and educators built around the concept of learning styles.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 29, 2009

The important transitions are in how people interact with one another, networked business structures, instantaneous communication, collaborative intelligence, and the demise of the industrial era. This is earth-shattering stuff, and it doesn’t do it justice to frame it as a mere transition in corporate training.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 13, 2010

I’d been telling companies stuck in the industrial age to balance their formal programs with informal and social approaches. Riding through the Forest with my colleague Charles Jennings got me thinking long term. I realized I’d been giving some clients and readers bad advice. The New Forest. Changing nature of work.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2010

If you follow the posts of The Internet Time Alliance, you know we are generally in the front lines of the struggle to wrest control from industrial-age fuddy-duddy managers who perpetuate obsolete people practices. We take a lot of crap for trying to force staid companies to wake up and smell the coffee.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2010

I argued that training is mired in old, faddish theory; Bloom, Gagne, Maslow, Kirkpatrick – train the trainer courses are still full of old behaviourist theory (killed stone dead by Chomsky in 1959) trapping us in 50 year old theories that holds the industry back.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 14, 2009

It was a classic industrial-age proposition: replace humans with machines. Ten years ago, venture capital firms issued lengthy reports explaining why eLearning would take the world by storm. Their underlying economic argument was cost-cutting: less travel, fewer facilities, and no more salary expense for instructors.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 29, 2010

The End of the Industrial Training Era - Informal Learning , January 2, 2010. The K-factor Lesson: How Social Ecosystems Grow (Or Not) - Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog , January 5, 2010. Michael Allen describes the future of authoring systems - Internet Time , January 5, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 11, 2009

This change is fundamental: the network era is replacing the industrial age. A dozen of us talked across a round table over lunch. Here are my notes: Massive, disruptive change is underway. Things will never be the same. A “new normal” is on the way. Life-threatening crisis unfreezes organizational structure.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2011

We are going from throwing off the yoke of the industrial age, when you had one class of people telling another class of people what to do, into a network age, where if you don’t empower the people of your organization, the people are going to leave. This is a total phase change.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2009

In the industrial era, things that were important—finances and operations—were the real C-level officers. Or, will we even have CLOs in the future? Cross: My prediction as to how organizational structures will change throws the role out the window. It’s only a piece of a bigger puzzle.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2007

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 10, 2009

Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Working with Emotional Intelligence , expresses the challenge this way: ”In the Industrial Age most work was organized hierarchically, and individual responsibility was replaced by systemic controls. Industrial Age. Salvador Dali, 1930. What happens to traditional training?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

According to a survey released last month that was conducted by the industry trade group Meeting Professionals International and American Express, 7 percent of business meetings already scheduled for 2009 have been canceled. Note : The vintage photos in this post are from training conferences circa 2000.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 19, 2009

It is very rare to get in on the ground-floor of an emerging industry. My pal Tony O’Driscoll asked me to help spread the word about the upcoming 3D Training Learning and Collaboration (3DTLC) conference in Washington DC next month. Tony is hoping to kick off wide-spread adoption of virtual worlds in the enterprise.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Any thinking about the future of industry, work-life balance, regional innovation, corporate culture, or motivation that fails to take the economy into account is folly. I learned a whale of a lot, so I expect to be dribbling out ah-ha moments as they come to me over the next few days.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

The trend has swept the globe, and the service sector is outstripping the industrial sector in every country. A superlative industrial worker was 25% more productive than average. Industrial age workers created value in factories. What’s a service? It’s a product that is created and consumed as it is delivered.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 25, 2008

“What’s our vision for where this industry is going with or without us?&# . ‘Prepare yourself for it to be longer and deeper than you think. And then build flexibility to adjust quickly if you need to.&#. Get ready for the upturn. That, he says is a five-year horizon. That’s a two- to four-year plan.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 25, 2008

“What’s our vision for where this industry is going with or without us?&# . ‘Prepare yourself for it to be longer and deeper than you think. And then build flexibility to adjust quickly if you need to.&#. Get ready for the upturn. That, he says is a five-year horizon. That’s a two- to four-year plan.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 17, 2010

Most managers tell time with Industrial Age watches, acting as if Internet time does not exist and missing the prospects it offers. Internet time is a generalization, like a New York minute, the idea being that it’s faster than regular time. A businessperson with a watch knows what time it is, but a businessperson with two watches does not.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

Idle factories will likely cripple the auto industry in North America. Buy Boeing, Honeywell, Rockwell-Collins and more. It’s time to invest in the recovery. Forbes.com: News. Thursday, April 30, 2009. Motown Shutdown. Ford and Toyota beware. Forbes.com: News. Thursday, April 30, 2009. SmartSynch Future-Proofs the Smart Grid.

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