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The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award 2020

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The Internet Time Alliance 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. In spite of his work demands, Andrew continues to share through his blog and on Twitter (as @AndrewJacobssLnD ).

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2015 Top Tools for Learning

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Like the brains of many professors, the information you’re looking for is usually in there somewhere, but sometimes difficult to pin down. Twitter : I have learned more in my professional life through Twitter in the past six-and-a-half years than in the previous 30 years. We can barely imagine life without Google Search.

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2016 Top Tools for Learning

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Twitter: My first port-of-call every morning to get daily insights into what my wider network is reporting. Twitter works as a window to my professional world. I use Facebook for family and personal friends, and Twitter for my professional social network. The second resource I turn to each morning after Twitter.

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Jay Cross Memorial Award - 2017

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She was subsequently the Information Futurist at PeopleSoft. She also was the instigator who organized the team for the twitter chat #lrnchat, which continues to this day. As a Senior Manager at Microsoft, she developed new training practices and wrote an accessible white paper on the deeper aspects of learning design.

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Embedding Learning in Work: The Benefits and Challenges

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(a version of this article was originally written as background for an #OzLearn chat held on Twitter, 11th November 2014) The Power of Embedded Learning A common finding that has emerged from study after study over the past few years is that learning which is embedded in work seems to be more effective than learning away from work.

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JAY CROSS – Pushing the Envelope to the End

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You’re learning all the time, taking in new information and making sense of it. Jane has also done a great job curating Twitter condolences. The analysis he carried out for his 2006 Informal Learning book says it all. Jay didn’t come to informal learning by happenchance. No, this is learning as a life skill.

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Real learning – let’s not confuse it with completing templated exercises

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Most people working in the knowledge economy want to create their own personal learning environments with tools that suit the way they work, gather information, and learn. LMS seems to be a tool designed and adapted for a world of reasonably neat formal event-based learning, not a messy world of informal process-based learning.

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