Jay Cross

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Hangout on Implementing Informal Learning this Saturday

Jay Cross

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. Josh Bersin, Elliott Masie, and Tony Bingham sing its praises.

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Contents of the informal cloud book

Jay Cross

Work Smarter: Informal Learning Enters the Cloud. Elliott Masie, 139. Informal Learning , 2, 6, 33, 41, 97, 98, 103, 104, 126, 127, 129, 179, 183, 187. ADDIE, 22, 23, 102, 106. Allen Interactions, 106. Andrew McAfee, 121. ASTD, 56, 66, 120, 183. Skinner, 66. balcony, 73, 106, 107. Baruch Lev, 81. Berkeley, 187, 192. Taylor, 82.

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Conferences can be better, a whole lot better

Jay Cross

As in the workplace, informal learning at conferences has more impact than formal learning. Attendance at the events I examined (eLearning Guild, Masie, Training, ATD, Learning & Technology, Educa) is rising. The cliché is that you learn more in the hallways than in the classrooms. Make this mandatory. Business is good.

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Jay the Novice

Jay Cross

Ten years ago Elliott Masie led a workshop for eLearning vendors at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle. New information and know-how is served in many cool different formats and it is accessible 24 hours a day. Honchos from dozens of top-tier eLearning companies filled the lecture theater.

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Stream of consciousness

Jay Cross

With my immune system compromised and my defenses down, last night I tottered on the edge of the bottomless pit of raw, seething information that is the web. Last night I went online to write a few pages of the Informal Learning 2.0 Like the pioneering Whole Earth Catalog, the Informal Learning 2.0 The Informal Learning 2.0

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

Elliott Masie's bio says he is "acknowledged as the first analyst to use the term e-Learning." Frankly, I prefer to be known as the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning than for naming something, in the company of others, more than ten years ago. You couldn't very well call this training. e + learning. I was not the only one.

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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. You want to find information faster and cut out the less useful, or under-performing parts of your network. formal | informal. To everything there is a season. It’s your network.