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Informal Learning 2.0

Jay Cross

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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Summarizing Learn for Yourself

Jay Cross

Here’s a summary of the Working Smarter Fieldbook : While learning is ascendant, training is in decline, for workers are embracing self-service learning; they learn in the context of work, not at some training class divorced from work. Finally, here’s a summary of Informal Learning.

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So many thoughts, so little time

Jay Cross

The top posts from sources selected for Informal Learning Flow in the first six months of 2009: Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - OReilly Radar , January 11, 2009. Ten years after - Informal Learning , January 10, 2009. CEO: Just Say No to Layoffs - Knowledge@Wharton , February 10, 2009.

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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

The 50,000 foot view of what’s going on in social networks and informal learning has changed very little In the last five years. Knowledge management and corporate learning may never be the same. The potential effect on learning and knowledge management is huge. So rest easy.

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Working smarter

Jay Cross

We used this technology together to create a site called Informal Learning Flow. I am encouraging companies to consider using private versions behind their firewalls for dynamic knowledge management. The software has evolved. Tony recently set up a company, Aggregage, to make the technology publicly available.

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Informal Learning 2.0

Jay Cross

Today’s learning is a mash-up of performance support, internal communications, collaboration, social software, real-time feeds, organization development, what’s left of knowledge management, collective intelligence, search, nurturing communities, and traditional learning. Informal Learning 2.0

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The future is people, not technology

Jay Cross

That first round of e-learning largely failed for precisely this reason. You can’t remove the humans from learning. Companies should embrace network-supported informal learning because it works better, not because it reduces labor costs. It was a classic industrial age proposition: Replace humans with machines.