Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 1, 2009

Informal Learning Flow Hot List. News Providers are Embracing the iPhone - OReilly Radar , July 16, 2009. New skills for learning professionals - Informal Learning , July 1, 2009. News Providers are Embracing the iPhone , July 16, 2009. July 1, 2009 to July 30, 2009. Whatever - Half an Hour , July 13, 2009. July 22, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 23, 2009

An Informal Conversation about Informal Learning. You can’t get too formal when your topic is informal learning. Shortly after my book on informal learning came out, I told an audience, “I’m really glad to be here because I’m looking forward to hearing what I have to say.&# Return on Investment.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 7, 2010

learning is a mix of formal and informal , not one or the other. The further you go to the right in these models, the less the support provided by L&D. I advocate filling the gap with support of social and informal learning. Tags: Informal Learning Social Tools. overarching issue is who controls the curriculum.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Mentors provide a sense of structure to guide learning, which they may do by listening empathically and by reinforcing intrinsic motivation to help the student discover a voice, a calling, or a passion. One no longer needs to own a television station, a printing press, or a broadcast transmitter to disseminate information, for example.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 12, 2008

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 20, 2010

Several hundred people joined my webinar on informal learning today. Organizations that focus on the supply side of the training they provide are looking at the wrong side of the equation. By focusing on the demand side (what learners need) they can facilitate the biggest part of the learning experience-informal learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Yesterday afternoon, an acquaintance who was appointed chief learning officer of one of the UK’s major banks three weeks ago asked me where to find some great examples of social & informal learning. People will post incorrect information. These systems compromise classified information. Our information is unique.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Jane Hart provides a snapshot of the State of Learning in the Workplace Today on at 10:45 am on Wednesday, November 3. Tags: Informal Learning. Join us at DevLearn in San Francisco next month. We all plan to be there. At 4:00 pm on Wednesday, we all be engaged in a conversation entitled Work Smarter: Learning is the Real Work.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 30, 2010

Immediate Feedback: Once a question is answered, detailed educational feedback is provided. Topics covered: Formal & informal learning. Tags: Change Informal Learning Working_smarter. Adaptive: The daily content adapts based on past performance automatically to drive long-term retention while requiring less time.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 2, 2011

Recognition of Non-formal and Informal Learning. It defines itself as a forum of countries committed to democracy and the market economy, providing a platform to compare policy experiences, seeking answers to common problems, identifying good practices, and co-ordinating domestic and international policies of its members.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 11, 2010

Organizations that focus on the supply side of the training they provide are looking at the wrong side of the equation. By focusing on the demand side (what learners need) they can facilitate the biggest part of the learning experience-informal learning. You’ll discover the advantages of learners taking over without going crazy!

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

“Empowering individuals to learn through discovery how to lead from their strengths is a major fulcrum for my work,” says Cross, who has written extensively on the subject of self-directed and informal learning and its increasing relevance and effectiveness — as compared to company-provided training — in today’s knowledge economy.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But remember that it might not provide enough of an emotional connection for the talker in your life. Tags: General Informal Learning inttime. Sure, it’s a great way to check in and converse in short bursts. Call someone else. Sometimes it’s better to find an attentive audience, rather than numb one into submission.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 26, 2009

This morning, Mark Sylvester and I conversed online about informal learning. The classic informal learning story from Xerox is the utter failure of their fancy-dancy national learning center. Indeed, learnscaping is all about “ creating an environment for enabling informal learning.&#. Our zany slides. 308 tweets!

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 27, 2010

Undoubtedly, most of this gusher of information pouring in one ear and out the other. Couldn’t Sun provide at least one more week of sales training? The recruits also learned the ins and outs of Sun’s brand new sales information system and were certified as trainers on the new system.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 27, 2009

My friends at CV&A in Spain have implemented Moodle to support informal learning in numerous corporations. While I haven’t attempted to try this out, the instructions appear sound, and there’s plenty of hand holding provided by an author who clearly wants to help you succeed in putting courses online.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Before YouTube Edu and iTunes U made video and audio lectures by the best professors in the country available for free, and before college students built Facebook into the world’s largest social network, changing the way we all share information. Free, open content provides an irresistible value proposition.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 25, 2009

However, in terms of sticking things in people’s heads, the informal combo of free-flowing discussion and audience interaction probably got more across than covering more topics in an efficient manner. This was an experiment in making an event more informal and spontaneous. Y todo ello a un ritmo vertigionoso.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 5, 2009

Next month I’ll be conducting several onsite workshops to inject informal/social learning practices into hidebound organizations that are anxious to ramp up to the future. They work for an outsource provider. They are temps, specialists, consultants, and service providers. I intend to coax them to plant dozens of seeds.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

When information abounds, peers take over. People who hoard information shoot themselves in the foot: Nobody will know who they are. Asymmetrical productivity : Twenty years ago, training departments prided themselves on consistency: providing precisely the same training experience to everyone in the organization.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning (and author of the definitive book on the topic), Web 2.0, Jay spoke with Learning Executives Briefing about informal learning and the changing role of the CLO. It’s also changing informal learning. Their IT people are fearful or they are afraid that information will leak out.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2011

Mixing case studies, stories, and actionable recommendations together with humor and easy-to-understand language, Jay Cross provides much more than buzzwords and back-patting, or so says his bio. Formal and informal never exist in isolation. LX Briefing. He also has some very strong opinions on the future of workplace learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field. Interesting spaces - informal meeting and/or socializing space. As a presenter, great guidance and specific information from organisers. Choices but not overwhelming number of events. Response 22.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 16, 2010

Immediate Feedback: Once a question is answered, detailed educational feedback is provided. 16 of these provided feedback, usually including a one- to five-star rating. My bottom line is that SpacedEd is cool for conveying explicit information that can be boiled down to a limited number of options. It’s simple.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

In an article titled Taking the Social Media Plunge: Learning to Let Go , Andy McAfee explores the reluctance of traditional organizations to embrace social media (and informal learning). Tags: Informal Learning innovation inttime. Many organizations appear scared to death of Enterprise 2.0. Andy and Jay.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 12, 2010

Cross is a champion of informal learning, Web 2.0, They are currently refining informal/web 2.0 His published works include Informal Learning : Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance as well as other books and countless articles. I’m the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 10, 2009

The Information Era has arrived. In the information age, innovation is the competitive advantage. That bears repeating: In the Information Age, learning is the business. Consider what businesses must do to win a seat at the riches of the Information Era. Abundant information obsoletes the concept of rank.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 21, 2010

Such an individual would perceive (and learn) any information provided on this subject in a much different fashion than a person who is assigned a reading or class. Example : A person interested in becoming rich might seek out books or classes on ecomomics, investment, great financiers, banking, etc. Principles: 1.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 1, 2009

Expert moderators may vet the accuracy and clarity of information in their domains. Yet other moderators seed discussions to channel conversations in ways that might provide insight to the organization. They understand how adults learn and how to transform information into learning. These tasks won’t happen by themselves.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

Informal Learning 2.0 When I look at Informal Learning Flow , an aggregator that works over the sites I visit to keep informed, it’s a totally hedgehogian experience. The Latest from Informal Learning Flow. The Smart Charger Controller may provide a solution. is for foxes, not hedgehogs? Fast Company.

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