Jay Cross

JULY 11, 2008

He and another text veteran formed Flat World Knowledge to reverse the tide. And they don’t contain local information. This morning I had a chat with former textbook publisher executive Erik Frank, who’s out to change the situation. Flat World proposes to offer e-texts by known authors to students for free.

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Knowledge Social Networks Social Network Flash 36

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

“The justification for a university is that it preserves the connexion between knowledge and the zest for life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning. This atmosphere of excitement, arising from imaginative consideration, transforms knowledge. for the first time in a decade.

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Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

In this 90-second excerpt from his TED talk on new experiments in self-teaching , Sugata Mitra describes how children in a remote village taught themselves bio-engineering using the net. Imagine what adult learners could do if we encourage them and let them learn with one another.

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Knowledge Engineering Emergent Teach 43

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

George writes: By way of a final analysis, thousands came, less stayed, and even less contributed.

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Knowledge Metrics Wiki Write Blog 36

Jay Cross

APRIL 21, 2008

The strength of weak ties explains that you never find your new job through your friends; you find it through their friends. Your pool of contacts overlaps that of your friends; there’s nothing new there. But their friends are members of many different communities. In diversity, there are job leads.

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Long Tail Knowledge Diversity Training RSS 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

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Internet Knowledge Blogging Analysis 36

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

More than ten years ago I read The Knowledge Creating Company. If I may summarize 400 pages from a vague memory, the gist was that I acquire tacit knowledge experientially, say baking a brioche. When I’ve mastered the baking, I explain how I did it, thus making the knowledge explicit. I gave up on Nonaka and Takeuchi.

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Jay Cross

JULY 11, 2008

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Internet Blogging Knowledge Cost 36

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

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Internet Blogging Knowledge Authoring 36

Jay Cross

MAY 22, 2013

I am going to use the concept to describe two different sorts of knowledge and the different way we learn them. #1 1 is intuitive knowledge and #2 is logical knowledge. Intuitive knowledge. Intuitive knowledge is what Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes in Thinking Fast and Slow as System 1.

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Culture Brain Simulations CLO 45

Jay Cross

AUGUST 18, 2013

I am going to use the concept to describe two different sorts of knowledge and the different way we learn them. #1 1 is intuitive knowledge and #2 is logical knowledge. Intuitive knowledge . Intuitive knowledge is what Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes in Thinking Fast and Slow as System 1.

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Culture Brain Simulations Wikipedia 40

Jay Cross

APRIL 21, 2008

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Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

While learning is about the process of acquiring knowledge, it actually encompasses a lot more. Knowledge is integrated in the life of communities. We often glean knowledge from observation of, and participation in, many different situations and activities. Learning is fundamentally social.

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Communities of Practice Community Learning Research 85

Jay Cross

APRIL 30, 2015

My professional interest is shifting to helping knowledge workers learn and flourish without training. Well, most knowledge workers don’t know they have an CLO and certainly never heard of instructional design. Increasing border crossings will boost organizational knowledge. I’d rather work with them directly.

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Knowledge Worker Instructional Design CLO Brain 36

Jay Cross

JANUARY 16, 2013

In the current issue of Chief Learning Officer , IDG’s Cushing Anderson reports that these CLOs think “informal learning deserves more attention because it reflects the real world outside the classroom and knowledge that is more applicable to tasks.” It’s number one on the list.)

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 23, 2011

It reminded me of the initial Knowledge Management fiasco where bright MBAs assembled well-written but irrelevant platitudes and stuffed them into databases nobody ever visited. Their in-house editor would mercilessly cull out any junk that got into the system. It shouldn’t be too challenging to. What did I think? It didn’t work.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Concept work relies on pattern recognition, tacit knowledge and the wisdom borne of experience. My research methods — my personal knowledge management system, if you will — are also different from yesteryear’s. You have to develop an approach for making sense of this sea of information and knowledge.

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Social Networks Jive Diversity Training Social Network 55

Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2015

Not bad but focused 100% on learning explicit knowledge. They miss the most important learning: tacit knowledge. Explicit knowledge? Tacit knowledge? Otherwise, I guess super-learners don’t learn from people and events. The authors are quite taken with themselves. Learning 300% Faster: 25 Learning Techniques.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 2, 2013

From this foundation , we explore communities of practice, capturing and disseminating news, knowledge sharing at Intel, experiential learning at Xerox, conversation at HP, volunteerism at SAP, Twitter at Deloitte, product knowledge at BT, and learning from microblogs.

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Informal Learning Informal SAP Internet 70

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein. Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge. Knowledge is not a commodity to be traded between expert and novice. Knowledge is of two kinds. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

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Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2013

The concept of ‘knowledge worker’ which Peter Drucker coined in 1959, is perhaps not so clear (as shown again in a recent LinkedIn discussion - access potentially limited) and can be understood at … Jay Cross ‘s insight: Brilliant. See on Scoop.it – Humanist Business.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

David Weinberger’s Too Big To Know convinced me that networks have radically changed the notion of what constitutes knowledge. Lots of our previous concepts about knowledge were due to the limitations of paper, not that there’s some absolute truth out there. On the net, facts don’t stay on the page.

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Jay Cross

MAY 31, 2015

The shelf life of STEM knowledge is about the same as for French mustard, several years. After that, the mustard begins to smell funny and the STEM knowledge is obsolete. It’s explicit knowledge. Besides, isn’t STEM often the algorithmic knowledge that robots are going to being doing in a few years?

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 23, 2015

Learning is the primary determinant of personal and professional success in our ever-changing knowledge age. Learning is a skill one can improve. Learning how to learn is a key to its mastery. People and organizations that strive to succeed had better get good at it. Our goal is to help them.

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Jay Cross

MAY 16, 2011

Related post: Flat World Knowledge. Smart phones. Just think about the words: TEXT (no pictures?, not interactive?) BOOK (dead-tree overhead, one-way, no community-building).

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 19, 2011

A dozen years ago, JSB described explicit knowledge (know-what, resides in books) and tacit knowledge (know-how, lives in people and their practices). The explicit stuff is the tip of an iceberg of knowledge that is primarily tacit. Hence, the importance of communities of practice.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 6, 2012

help individuals build trusted Personal Knowledge Networks of colleagues they can call upon for advice and support. help teams set up and sustain internal communities of practice – to improve knowledge sharing within teams. Share responsibility for the process with business units.

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Corporate Learning Social Networks Case Study Taxonomy 75

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Luis Suarez is an IBMer with a passion for everything to do with knowledge management. His interest is in real knowledge management, the field that includes knowledge sharing, collaboration, expertise location, content management, online facilitation, and building communities. I’m delighted to highlight their ideas here.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Perhaps most importantly, however, a MOOC builds on the active engagement of several hundred to several thousand “students” who self-organize their participation according to learning goals, prior knowledge and skills, and common interests. Barnett (2002) had his own interpretations of knowledge in relation to uncertainty and change.

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Pedagogy Social Networks Distance Learning Wiki 65

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Jonah Lehrer has written some great articles lately on the believability of science and credibility of knowledge. I think the bias toward STEM is that agencies like NSF focus on transferring explicit knowledge rather than tacit knowledge because it’s easier to measure outcomes. All of Europe produces just 100,000.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 10, 2014

Role-Related Knowledge. But all-in-all, Google’s findings bring into question training’s usual focus on knowledge over personal growth. . Google looks to what people can become as they grow on the job, not where they come from. Leadership. Your company’s situation may differ. At Google, self-directed continuous learning is the norm.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

Know-who (social networking skills, locating the key people and communities where competencies, knowledge, and practice reside and who can add the greatest value to one’s learning and work) Two students working on one computer learn more than both would learn if working individually. .”

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This is where knowledge and practice meet. Jane Hart pointed me to this presentation by John Seely Brown on the Entrepreneurial Learner. DML2012 John Seely Brown Keynote from DML Research Hub on Vimeo. Entrepreneurial learners are makers and tinkerers.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 25, 2013

Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skulthorpe, the inventor of “social capital” and a master Aborigine artist respectively, give a wonderful and artistic assessment of the Aborigines’ knowledge management practices in their book Treading Lightly: the Hidden Wisdom of the World’s Oldest People (2006). Fast-forward to today.

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Social Networks Social Network Community Virtual World 38

Jay Cross

APRIL 18, 2013

“Our study suggested that managers learn mostly from informal learning, that proficiency is the product of informal learning, and that metacognitive knowledge and self-regulation skills moderate informal learning and the transfer process. Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency.

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Management Develop Informal Learning Study 52

Jay Cross

MARCH 5, 2012

Successful businesses insure that software and tools are available for such things as bookmarking reference information, collaborating on tasks, searching organizational content, recording knowledge for peer learning, reinforcing of key concepts, locating experts, accessing outside information, and connecting with customers and partners.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 16, 2012

A dozen years ago I needed to get up to speed on business process automation, knowledge management, and workflow systems. I attended KM World in San Jose gratis and came away with great foundation knowledge. ” I owe KMWorld a debt of gratitude.

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