Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2010

Being an Instructional Designer, my first thought was: this book makes me interact with it. Simultaneously, her interest in eLearning as a medium grew, and she formally entered the world of Instructional Design. Sahana says Instructional Design taught her the value and importance of being a lifelong learner.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

For example, instructional designers no longer have time to develop formal courses. Workers will also have to be their own instructional designers, selecting the best methods of learning. . * Working with management to fund and develop appropriate tools and processes for workers.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 21, 2009

Rumor has it that the podcasts are homework for some instructional design classes. Earlier this year in London, I sat down with the editor of Learning Technologies magazine, Ben Chai, to share my views on natural learning, the credit crunch, slam-dunk ROI, social networking, closing the training departments, and more.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

A storyboard can keep everyone involved in the development of the learning “on the same page” as they frame and communicate the instructional design. For me, storyboards are an essential tool for developing learning, particularly e-learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 30, 2009

How about new forms of Instructional Design? What does the Future of Learning look like? What are the new roles? Should instructor-led environments live long? How informal? What does future learning architecture look like? Please add your suggestions on the Corporate Learning Trends site. What are your burning topics?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Design, processes, and ADDIE , September 9, 2009. New challenges of management , September 22, 2009. Google Sidewiki , September 24, 2009. Getting started with visualization , September 3, 2009. Leaning Towards Intention , September 24, 2009. like changing tires on a speeding car” , September 16, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Her writing is not sufficiently obscure to appeal to doctrinaire instructional designers and academic design gurus. So, if you consider yourself an expert instructional designer, with all the associated jargon, this book is not for you.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Instructional designers used to design programs. They confront situations no one has encountered before. They must perform on the spot. And the only way they can keep up is by learning for themselves. Learning has become the work.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 14, 2009

Some instructors and instructional designers now see me as a job threat. Get Out of the Training Business , my last column for Chief Learning Officer, called for the abolition of corporate training departments. Help me write the next installment. They needn’t worry. Enlightened eLearning requires more people, not fewer.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 27, 2010

Time-to-performance provides a better goal for instructional designers than merely attaining competence. A few lessons from this parable: The returns on decreasing time-to-performance can be so huge that even the crudest measure of ROI is often enough to demonstrate merit. The time-to-performance metric takes this into account.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 14, 2010

ID – Instructional Design or Interactivity Design in an interconnected world? - OReilly Radar , June 2, 2010. 10 techniques to massively increase retention - Donald Clark Plan B , May 28, 2010. Wikipedia – Explained By Common Craft - Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English - , May 25, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

This is the website of Connie Malamed, an eLearning, information and visual designer with a Masters Degree in Instructional Design & Technology and 20 years of experience in the trenches. It’s the Coach’s list of Stock Photo sites. Welcome to readers around the planet!

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Informal Learning Informal Wiki Social Networks 49

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 16, 2010

The questions are relevant to the career of Instructional Designer. But, what Jay accomplishes in those 16 questions is reasonable for this medium. Current rating: 06/28/10. I love the delivery method. Current rating: 06/15/10.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2011

He has spoken with executives, marketers, entrepreneurs, chief learning officers, sales staff, instructional designers, HR directors, bankers, and academics. Jay covers topics from 50,000 feet to ground level, depending on audience and need.

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Change Case Study Google CLO 52

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field. The instructional designs I created after his suggestion were later on submitted to AACE Ed Media conf, IADIS Mobile Learning conf. After my participation in SITE, a University prof.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 19, 2009

At Training Conferences they are pushed out of the limelight by Instructional Design Approaches and LMS vendors, and, until NOW, at the Virtual Worlds conferences it felt like Entertainment and Media was sucking up the bulk the oxygen. At the Serious Games conferences they are marginalized my the more jazzy games. NOT ANYMORE ; ).

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Instructional designers no longer have time to develop formal courses. They will also have to be their own instructional designers, selecting the best methods of learning. Past principles and practices were captured in books, stored in the library, and described in lectures.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 1, 2009

Last month I opened the IADIS eLearning 2009 Conference in Portugal with an address on Redefining Instructional Design. See Ellen’s Prerequisites for Instructional Designers. Face-to-face instruction packs a punch but is difficult to scale. This month’s big question asks, “In a Learning 2.0

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