Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Social Learning Examples

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

She covers blogs, collaborative calendaring, podcasting, feeds, collaborative mind-mapping, microblogging, photo sharing, screencast sharing, presentation sharing, video sharing, social bookmarking, collaborative editing and working and presentations, social networking, personalized start pages, and integrated social/collaborative environments.

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Why you should embrace open source

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Improving integration. . * Changing customer and market perceptions. Making a vision pervasive. Changing the rules. Reducing support costs. Injecting discipline into the development process. Satisfying more customers. Porting to otherwise unimportant platforms. Avoiding lock-in. Changing pricing practices. Creating markets.

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April 2010 Great ones

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Coloring Outside the Wireframe: 3 Tips to Integrating Visual Design in the UX Field - Adaptive Path , April 9, 2010. The YouTube drug observatory - Mind Hacks , April 20, 2010. The Power of Pull - Irving Wladawsky-Berger , April 10, 2010. Volcano 1, Internet 0.01 - Joho the Blog , April 18, 2010.

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Response 3 Figure out how to get WiFi Figure out how to make a readable guide Don’t let speakers sell from the stage Plan some group events Integrate social media. Response 2 Not enough time to meet people. Response 4 Wide but not deep / deep but not deep enough.

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Learning for the 21st Century

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

A learnscape approach brings these things into focus and integrates them into a whole. No one noticed that the parts didn’t mesh, work was fragmented, learning was separate from doing, and everything was ad hoc. Courses end; learnscapes persist.

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Accelerating innovation

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Can we integrate knowledge and work so that the distinction between the two disappears? Should we dedicate more time to learning that takes a while to sink in (like oft-told campfire stories) and less on transferring bare-bones knowledg nuggets? Does “rapid eLearning&# really help us become better workers?

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Brain Rules & learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

SENSORY INTEGRATION | Rule #9: Stimulate more of the senses. SHORT-TERM MEMORY | Rule #5: Repeat to remember. LONG-TERM MEMORY | Rule #6: Remember to repeat. SLEEP | Rule #7: Sleep well, think well. STRESS | Rule #8: Stressed brains don’t learn the same way. VISION | Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses.

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