Jay Cross's Informal Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Indeed, why should students go to mediocre face-to-face lectures when they can watch presentations from MIT, Stanford, and so on on the internet? Free, open content provides an irresistible value proposition. I predict we’re going to see more and more shared corporate content. It is a bandwidth issue.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 27, 2009

The thesis was titled “The use of Open Source software to support a social constructionist epistemology of teaching and learning within Internet-based communities of reflective inquiry.&# Ten years ago an Aussie webmaster named Martin Dougiamas at Curtin University created Moodle as part of his PhD thesis.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 1, 2009

News Providers are Embracing the iPhone - OReilly Radar , July 16, 2009. So many thoughts, so little time - Internet Time , July 6, 2009. How to Troubleshoot a Flaky Internet Connection [Home Network] , July 22, 2009. News Providers are Embracing the iPhone , July 16, 2009. Whatever - Half an Hour , July 13, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Provide opportunities to experiment, and don’t punish “failures.&#. Provide challenges to groups, not individuals. Provide resources for people to learn things for themselves. Internet Time Group, LLC. It’s time to: Encourage discovery and coloring outside the lines. Give workers the freedom to learn.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Other people are providing the context and the need, even if they’re not in the room. There’s a lengthy summary of this at Internet Time Wiki. Coach: Are there advantages to informal collaborative learning as compared to informal individualized learning? Jay: Learning is social. Most learning is collaborative.

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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. If I compare that to companies that play it too close to the vest and are afraid to even give their employees Internet access, it seems silly.

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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. Enough variety to provide a wide range of options Enough opportunities for informal fellowship to allow me to meet others. Provides an opportunity to interact with others and create collaborative work.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

But virtually all the evidence I’ve seen over the years convinces me that people (whether employees, partners, or customers) can be trusted, and do predominantly use the new social software platforms in ways that provide benefit and credit to the companies that establish them. So I think the real reluctance comes from someplace else.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 10, 2009

And what can an entirely new way of business, one in tune with the rhythm of e-commerce and the Internet bring in? It’s not as if the monolithic TimeWarnerMicrosoftCisco Consortium is going to provide all the entertainment, training, phone calls, and news you’ll ever need. A 20% improvement on the bottom line?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 12, 2010

He chairs the Internet Time Alliance, a brain trust of six thought leaders who help companies boost their collective intelligence and profitability through networks. Every day, thousands of people read his blogs, Internet Time and Informal Learning Blog. They are currently refining informal/web 2.0

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 10, 2008

pervasive internet infrastructure for social networking. “Learning providers will go out of business in a short time and businesses need to realise they are also learning providers as well.&#. increasing democratization of the workforce. convergence of knowledge, knowledge work, and learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 17, 2010

The flash occurs in Internet time. A year of Internet time is roughly equivalent to seven years of calendar time. Internet time is a generalization, like a New York minute, the idea being that it’s faster than regular time. Related: Internet Time’s page on Time.

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