Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. Informal Learning 2.0. Some cutting-edge corporations are adopting a new bundle of practices — let’s call them informal learning 2.0 — in order to improve operating efficiency by: • Slashing time to performance. Increasing customer loyalty though learning.

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Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When you’re designing learning, don’t overlook the importance of informal learning. This is learning that takes place outside of the classroom or the eLearning activity. It could be knowledge gained from reading, Web searching, or from colleagues and friends. Build a Learning Culture. Pershing (Ed.),

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2023

The Internet Time Alliance Memorial Award , in memory of Jay Cross , is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay‘s lifetime of work. They share their work in public and often challenge conventional wisdom.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 14, 2009

The second volume includes performance interventions, and includes elaerning, coaching, knowledge management, and more (as well as things like incentives, culture, EPSS, feedback, etc. Overall, there seems to be no awareness of the whole thrust of social and informal learning.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Interesting discussion going on with contribution by Luis Suarez, Jay Cross, David Wilson - around the distinction between Knowledge Management and Learning: Knowledge Management and Informal Learning Knowledge Management and Learning - Separated at Birth? Where They Really?

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Tony Karrer

JULY 18, 2006

Great post by Harold Jarche - Informal Learning and Performance Technology responding to my post - Informal Learning - Let's Get Real. Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g., Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g.,

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 11, 2011

Here’s how a typical LinkedIn network might look: Your weak ties are smaller circles, not at the center of a cluster I heard more support for the Weak Ties theory while attending a Knowledge Management conference in 2005. Instead, tell them where to get the information they need, when they need it. Properly d.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 180

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Delivering Learning. Designing Learning. Managing an L&D Function. Knowledge Management. Even though it is a challenge to prove training/learning’s effect beyond Kirkpatrick’s level 1 & 2 -senior management continues to ask for numbers so here we are – the L&D folks want that skill the most.

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Evalution Skills Teams ASTD 223

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

We need practical ways to build personal informal networks. Helping groups learn from mistakes and errors, practices to carry over learnings from project to project and improve corporate memory. Open space methods, creating forums and 'Ba' for trusted exchanges, blogging and informal wikis may help.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Learning theory & instructional design. • Taxonomy of Learning Theories. • Theory-informed instructional design tips. • The two faces of blended learning. • Art vs (Information) Science. Informal learning. • How to revamp your learning model. Government 2.0.

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Blogging Blended Learning Social Media Augmented Reality 168

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Tags: Informal Learning itimealliance.

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Knowledge Management Personal Personalization Knowledge 40

The Learning Circuits

MAY 2, 2006

First, more importantly, if anyone has a comment on research regarding the effectiveness of informal learning, please attach it to Peter Isackson's comment below. For me, the question is still, what is informal learning? So, with that "dead elephant" out of the way, what is informal learning, anyway?

Informal Learning 40

Informal Learning Informal IM IMS 40

Connect Thinking

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Conduct 1:1 or focus interviews with the e-learning strategy touch-points in your organisation: Business strategy requirements today and future e.g. responsiveness, competition, changing consumer demands, legislation changes. Information management and/or knowledge management e.g. knowledge retention and information maintenance and renewal.

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Learning Strategy Strategy Social Networks Brandon Hall 209

ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Learning Gets Social by Tony Bingham: Karie Willyerd, vice president and chief learning officer for Sun Microsystems explains the huge opportunity the profession has in informal learning: “One of the things that has happened is that we have focused so much on the 10 percent [formal learning] that we abdicated the 70 percent [informal learning].

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Learning 2.0 Blended Learning Social Networks Gartner 132

Jane Hart

JULY 11, 2012

Our Summer Camp provides an opportunity to learn with peers and gain some of the essential skills needed to support learning in the networked world. informal learning. social learning. mobile learning. Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). We’ll be discussing. online communities.

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PKM Social Learning Social Knowledge Management 157

ID Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

Why Mobile Learning The strongest Value Proposition for mobile learning comes from connecting people with ideas, information, and each other—anytime, anywhere! Ten years back, Clark Quinn’s statement about mobile learning seemed wishful thinking. Today, mobile learning is no longer a buzzword. It has arrived.

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Mobile Learning Mobile iPod Wiki 166

ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

1 Instructional Design Multimedia Learning Richard Mayer. 2 Workplace Learning The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge. 3 Workplace Learning Informal learning Jay Cross. 4 Workplace learning The Working Smarter Fieldbook Jay Cross. 5 Workplace Learning/Training Social Media for Trainers Jane Bozarth.

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Social Networks Cognitive Enterprise 2.0 Social Network 172

Learnnovators

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Underlying this military and manufacturing discourse is an insidious and difficult to pin down aspect – the scarcity mindset – be it of money, skills, information, time, talent, and so on. This clash is not the fault of managers or leaders taking the organization forward – in most cases, it is done in good faith.

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Culture Social Business Change 170

Learnnovators

MAY 4, 2015

As an L&D professional who is passionate about self-driven learning, #pkm and #pln, and believe in and evangelize social and informal learning, I realize it’s time to take a step back and do a reality check. Showcase benefits of personal learning networks: This, I believe is one of the most critical steps.

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Change Blended Learning Social Networks Social Network 150

Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The baby boomers are retiring taking their tacit knowledge and experience with them. We live in an age of information abundance but lacking in insight and wisdom; it is almost impossible to make sense of it as an individual. I deal with sensitive information and data. Five generations are working side-by-side (often virtually).

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Diversity Training Cognitive Blended Learning Network 172

Coursy

AUGUST 26, 2022

They won't, however, be positioning themselves well for informal learning, performance support, or knowledge management. Connected specialization, modularization, and decentralization are learning foundations capable of adjusting to varied information climate changes. Tools like Furl , del.icio.us

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Learnnovators

MARCH 22, 2015

. “ Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. ” – Albert Bandura (Originator of Social Learning Theory). “ The research isn’t heartening. Here they are: Quotes.

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Social Networks Social Learning Social Case Study 172

Learnnovators

AUGUST 19, 2015

Her work with various companies like Tata Interactive Systems, Zensar Technologies, ThoughtWorks and Future Group has given her a width of experience that spans instructional design, workplace learning strategy, knowledge management, social learning and community management, and people development.

Social Networks 188

Social Networks Diversity Training Community Social Network 188

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 8, 2012

Given that the goal of instructional designers and training developers is to improve employee performance, it’s surprising that many continue to create blended learning programs with little or no reliance on performance support tools or systems. Build performance support into every blended learning effort.

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Performance Support Blended Learning Support Performance 190

Big Dog, Little Dog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

The other part of a complex environment is providing better means of informal learning as all this learning taking place would be quite inefficient if placed in a formal learning platform. Part of its inefficiency is capturing lessons learned. How do you plan on supporting the informal?

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Learnnovators

JULY 6, 2015

Beyond Information Sharing – “Working out loud” is not about sharing information. It is about providing the context to the information, the exceptions to the processes, the failed attempts and successes. That can be better achieved via reports, datasheets, and meetings.

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eLearning Strategy Strategy Blended Learning Community 133

Learnnovators

MAY 11, 2015

To transition from a hierarchical to a networked and transparent culture requires a conscious untangling of all the unspoken assumptions and biases that inform the present culture and values. Without an explicit understanding of the assumptions across the board, it is not possible to change any one them.

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Social Learning Social Integrate Blended Learning 176

Upside Learning

MAY 7, 2010

Emergence of social media (and reviewed focus on social and informal learning). Mobiles will become the platform of choice for workplace learning delivery (or learning/knowledge management system access). Games (and simulations) will become integral part of workplace learning.

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Learning Technologies Authoring Tools Technology Simulations 271

ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

Technology —is great for exchange of information, updates and other transactional stuff. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. To strike a work-life balance, work from home as much as possible (most of the time). This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself.

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Stock Skype Knowledge Worker Community 124

Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

Because of its blended nature – formal course content with informal and social learning woven around it – MOOCs cannot be a top down endeavour. Even if corporate MOOCs are designed along the lines of xMOOCs (structured, sequenced, with a defined start and end), the discussion forum will require participation.

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Diversity Training Blended Learning Skills Learner 154

Learning Rebels

JULY 29, 2016

Not to mention they asked really good questions about content design and they genuinely wanted to learn how to do better by their organization. When asked about informal learning and how they progressed their own knowledge of the training industry, the room got silent. It was a week where ideas flowed! Then it happened.

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eLearning Cyclops

MARCH 1, 2009

The March Big Question from Learning Circuits is What will workplace learning look like in 10 years? Here are some of the things I see in 10 years: We will see much more informal learning and knowledge management. Participants will have much more control of learning events.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 6, 2015

While I cannot profess that L&D/OD specialists can change the nature of management, I can say that well-informed and skilled professionals from this field can enable an organization to empower its employees and management to acquire those skills that will get them to use the social technologies with greater efficacy.

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Community Social Technology Management 140

Learnnovators

AUGUST 19, 2015

Her work with various companies like Tata Interactive Systems, Zensar Technologies, ThoughtWorks and Future Group has given her a width of experience that spans instructional design, workplace learning strategy, knowledge management, social learning and community management, and people development.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 10, 2016

When fully realized and supported, emergent learning provides autonomy, mastery and purpose to learners and agility, adaptability and resilience to organizations. It empowers learners to build their personal learning networks (PLN) and personal knowledge management (PKM) by leveraging technology to connect a distributed and diverse workforce.

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Continu

DECEMBER 7, 2018

As you might expect, continual learning is exactly what it sounds like—ongoing learning and development. That means people undergo all sorts of training (on- and off-the-job, formal and informal) to build new skills on a consistent basis. But isn’t that what all learning and development programs do? Not exactly.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 29, 2015

While “social learning” as a phrase, concept and strategy is fairly well-known by now, the concept of “working out loud” hasn’t yet garnered that level of popularity. When my comment drew that blank stare, I thought it would be a worthwhile topic for a short blog post.

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