Jay Cross

AUGUST 27, 2012

Need to get your arms around the essence of informal learning in business in a hurry? Try these ten: The Informal Learning Poster. What’s informal learning? (in Informal learning in a nutshell. Bringing Informal Learning Up To Date. Realtime learning in realtime business.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

This deck is my starting point when I’m asked to do a presentation about informal learning. about informal learning than you did on the way in. Some of these 350 slides are eight years old; most are less than 24 months. Flip through the slides. I guarantee you’ll end knowing more.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

Six years ago I wrote Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance. This is the first in a series of posts about what informal learning is and how to put it into practice. Synopsis of Informal Learning. What is learning? Formal and informal learning.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 16, 2013

Why isn’t L&D supporting informal learning? Informal learning is important. The CLOs reported “…there is little knowledge about how exactly to support informal learning.”. Informal learning is a top priority in most corporate L&D plans. Join me to explore why.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 12, 2013

Two weeks ago, I led a half-day masterclass on informal learning and 70:20:10 for staff and customers of the Dutch high-tech consultancy Ordina. “I do things I don’t know how to do in order to learn how to do them. This is so different from formal learning. This video highlights some of the main points.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. Informal Learning 2.0. Corporate approaches to learning have to change, as well. Until the shift from industrial to network dominance, corporations could compensate for crummy learning by hiring experienced people and managing ingenious command-and-control structures.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 27, 2015

Informal Learning is available via Google Books. Informal Learning Just Jay' Read a couple of chapters for free.

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Jay Cross

MAY 15, 2011

companies spent money on informal learning tools or services last year. Most informal learning takes place despite training departments, not because of them. Most informal learning takes place despite training departments, not because of them. What an astounding finding! L&D people.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

From my pal Curt Bonk at Indiana University: My research team and I from the Instructional Systems Technology Department at Indiana University are conducting a study titled, “Collecting Stories of Extreme or Informal Learning.” I’m finishing up my next book, Informal Learning in Business.

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Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2012

A couple of years ago, several of us traveled to Oxford to debate whether Informal Learning was style or substance. Related: The debate over informal learning. eLearn Magazine: The Oxford Union Debate on Informal Learning, Style or Substance? Substance won out 5:1.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 24, 2013

“How do you learn what’s going on? How do you learn to do your job?” .” The other fellow recently graduated from Cal Berkeley; he was happy to have any job. Both enjoyed their work; it keeps them in shape. Everyone’s allowed to talk.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Jane Hart just alerted me to this post on Blackboard Blog, 5 Myths About Informal Learning. won’t retain” = people who learn at the point of need apply their learning immediately. can’t be measured” = the measure of any form of learning is outcomes. that’s why most learning is informal.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today eLearn Magazine published a story on the debate at Oxford on whether informal learning is more style than substance. More on the debate.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Last Tuesday I delivered a workshop in Sao Paulo on informal learning to clients of fast-moving Brasilian learning company Affero. I’ll let the graphic recorders tell the story.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m writing the sequel to Informal Learning. Harold Jarche posted this to the internal Internet Time Alliance network yesterday: “Check out slides 115-118″ [link] I did. I was blown away. Here ’tis: Culture (Original 2009 version) from Reed Hastings. Four freaking slides.

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Jay Cross

JULY 2, 2012

More skinny about the experiential workshop at the Informal Learning Center. If you want to join me, better hurry up. There are only nine seats on this bus.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 8, 2011

Dan Pontefract had a great post on TrainingWreck about the inadequacy of the Kirkpatrick model in a world where learning is increasingly collaborative and networked. Dan takes the logic further than I did last week in my post on how to assess learning initiatives. Kirkpatrick is about push, not pull, learning.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 20, 2013

Join the Learning in Organizations Community on Google+. A Google+ Hangout with Craig Wiggings, Charles Jennings, Enzo Silva, Pascal le Rudulier, Clark Quinn, and Jay Cross. Rough Agenda. Chat Transcript.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Informal Learning begins with these words: “THIS IS A BOOK about knowledge workers, twenty-first-century business, and informal learning. formal learning of all kinds ? channels some important learning but doesn’t carry the heaviest load. Most teaming about how to do a job is informal.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

“How are informal conversations transforming our understanding and learning practices in businesses and communities?&#. ON INFORMAL LEARNING. “It’s amazing how people can learn much of what they need just talking with each other recursively. REDE DE CONVERSAÇÕES INFORMAIS.

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Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2012

At mLearnCon, I chatted with Float’s Jeff Tillett for a few minutes about why people should be interested in my experiential learning workshop. You can hear the entire conversation on the Float Learning Blog. Jeff and I chat about mLearning, Tin Can, innovation, happiness, neuroscience, and my upcoming experiential workshop.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I’m going to be debating the merits of informal learning with some downright scary competition: Nancy Lewis, who’s probably best known as the champion of IBM’s formidable sales training, and Allison Rossett, who has developed more can-do instructional designers than anyone else on the planet.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Eavesdrop on a concentrated telephone interview avec moi on how to leverage the informal to improve business results. Thirteen minutes long, and you can bail after five. Paris-based Marc Tirel interviewed me on Skype. He made this recording and shared it in a private session with management of a major bank in France. Marc’s a pal.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 31, 2010

Subtitled Informal Learning in the Cloud , this edition focuses on social learning and implementing web 2.0 What can we do to improve this informal learning?…23. Rethinking Learning in Organizations…30. Informal Learning …36. Genesis of the Informal Learning Poster …37.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2009

It beats threshing a barrage of chaff to locate the kernels of information you want. The Informal Learning Flow aggregator is beginning to take social signals into account. on the eLearning Learning. Hot List on Informal Learning. A Guide to Social Learning. eLearning Learning and RSS.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 14, 2008

Listen to this 8-minute update if you want to know about the Informal Learning 2.0 My book on informal learning froze my thoughts as it came off the presses, as if the world is not always changing. Books are an increasingly obsolete medium. Publishers spend a year doing what other sectors do in a month.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 24, 2012

First come, first served. Workshop announcement and pre-registration are here.

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Jay Cross

MAY 7, 2010

Tags: Informal Learning Workscaping.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Associação Industrial Portuguesa, Creative Learning Conference, Lisbon, October 2011.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Buy it now.

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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. Learning Light, 192. learning mixer, 104, 105.

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Jay Cross

JULY 23, 2012

Fresh as of today.

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Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

Yesterday I came upon a 13-year old cassette recording of Peter Henschel, executive director of the Institute for Research on Learning , speaking to a breakout session at Elliott Masie’s TechLearn conference. Learning About Learning: Lessons from the Trenches. Presentation by Peter Henschel, Institute for Research on Learning.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Learnnovators: We are excited about having reviewed your new book Real Learning. Could you give our readers a brief on your book that is also a part of a larger part of your Real Learning project please? I want to turn them on to what we know about how brains work and get them off on the right track for their meta-learning journey.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

is becoming Real Learning. It doesn’t suggest the work that comes before (knowing your goals, tuning your networks) or what it takes to make learning stick (taking action and reflection). Real Learning is based on neuroscience and what’s proven successful, not the standard self-help b t. ” Cool.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2012

Jane Hart’s post yesterday on The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business got me thinking about the evolution of learning culture in organizations. Take a core sample of overall learning and you still find classroom training for newbies, compliance, and technical subjects.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. They learn about twice as much from those conversations compared to structured courses and programs. It’s a handy framework to keep in mind, particularly when someone mistakenly thinks all learning is formal.

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