Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

They learned in transparent environments, and in the process, became teachers to others. George writes: By way of a final analysis, thousands came, less stayed, and even less contributed. But we (and I mean all course participants, not just Stephen and I) managed to explore what is possible online. License.

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Jay Cross

JULY 11, 2008

He and another text veteran formed Flat World Knowledge to reverse the tide. Erik described a “social learning network&# students could join to study with one another; this struck me as a potential ghost town. And they don’t contain local information. They hope to have eight texts available for the ‘09 school year.

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Knowledge Social Networks Social Network Flash 36

Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

Yesterday I came upon a 13-year old cassette recording of Peter Henschel, executive director of the Institute for Research on Learning , speaking to a breakout session at Elliott Masie’s TechLearn conference. Learning About Learning: Lessons from the Trenches. Presentation by Peter Henschel, Institute for Research on Learning.

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Communities of Practice Community Learning Research 85

Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

Imagine what adult learners could do if we encourage them and let them learn with one another. Education is a self-organizing system and learning an emergent phenomenon.

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Knowledge Engineering Emergent Teach 43

Jay Cross

AUGUST 2, 2013

Your organization has decided to tilt in the direction of informal learning. Masterclass for L&D managers, instructional designers, and senior instructors on the concept and implementation of informal learning. Introduction to informal learning. A dive into 70:20:10 as an example of informal, experiential learning.

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Informal Learning Informal SAP Internet 70

Jay Cross

AUGUST 23, 2015

Everyone has the capacity to learn but most people can do a much better job of it. Learning is a skill one can improve. Learning how to learn is a key to its mastery. Learning is the primary determinant of personal and professional success in our ever-changing knowledge age.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Learnnovators: We are excited about having reviewed your new book Real Learning. Could you give our readers a brief on your book that is also a part of a larger part of your Real Learning project please? I want to turn them on to what we know about how brains work and get them off on the right track for their meta-learning journey.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 6, 2012

Experience has taught us that making over a training department into a business learning function requires these activities: Sell the vision of learning as a value-creating component of social business. explain how to integrate learning & development into the fabric of the business. Make the vision a reality.

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Corporate Learning Social Networks Case Study Taxonomy 75

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

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. Networks were made for learning.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 16, 2013

Why isn’t L&D supporting informal learning? Informal learning is important. 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.”

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Informal Learning Informal Masie Calendar 60

Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

I just copied a rough draft of my new book, Learn For Yourself , into a free summarizer. It’s all a matter of learning, but it’s not the sort of learning that is the province of training departments, workshops, and classrooms. You are learning to learn how to become the person you wrote the obit for.

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Social Networks Wiki Summary Social Network Analysis 36

Jay Cross

APRIL 24, 2015

I’m writing a book on learning for oneself, without training. It’s for knowledge workers and bosses who have been told “You’re responsible for your own learning.” It’s DIY learning coupled with Modern Workplace Learning. Talk about Action Learning! “What do I do now?”

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Pattern Knowledge Worker Reputation Learning 36

Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2015

Since I’m in the midst of writing a book on solo/DIY learning, I thought I might learn something from these freebies: 45 Elearning Tips and Tricks , by John Araiza. Accelerated Learning. Effective Learning. Discover Accelerated Learning Strategies. Learn more, study less. Short on learning.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 17, 2013

I’m soundly convinced that Learning Platforms are crowding out Learning Programs. Focus on improving the learning ecology rather than tackle one event at a time. “Learning in advance” doesn’t work in a realtime world, so learning and work have converged. Experiential learning is magic.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 20, 2015

Clark Quinn mentioned The Meta-Learning Lab during #lrnchat today and it brought back a rush of memories. 14 years ago, Clark and I, along with Claudia Welss and Claudia L’Amoreaux, founded the Meta-Learning Lab. Learning is a skill one can improve. Learning how to learn is a key to its mastery. ” H.G.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Leave Learning to Employees. This article describes the CLO of Kaplan as he adapts to a world where employees can route around learning to find their own content. Better that CLOs focus on creating ecosystems that support learning, knowledge-sharing, and social interaction. By Kate Everson. CLO magazine November 2015.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. They learn about twice as much from those conversations compared to structured courses and programs. As Charles Handy has written, “Real learning is not what most of us grew up thinking it was.”.

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Social Networks Compliance Training Jive Yammer 62

Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. Informal Learning 2.0. Corporate approaches to learning have to change, as well. Until the shift from industrial to network dominance, corporations could compensate for crummy learning by hiring experienced people and managing ingenious command-and-control structures.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 17, 2012

Flipping learning is big in education. It will be big in corporate learning. How do you flip learning? Khan Academy is the poster child for flipped learning. In the classroom, they sort out what they’ve learned and do what used to be called homework. Millions of students are learning this way.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 13, 2011

My colleagues at Internet Time Alliance and I have been discussing new models for learning. People retain more when they learn informally, in response to need, because they deem the subject relevant and what they learn is reinforced when they put it into practice. Behavior change entails more than mere learning.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 21, 2008

Novices learn lots; that’s who most of the conferences are for. I’m assembling the un-book sequel to Informal Learning. When I come against an issue of, say, learning culture, I’d be more likely to get a fresh perspective from these folks than from the usual suspects in the training blogosphere. Joho the Blog.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 22, 2015

While cleaning up my office this afternoon, I came up this list of essentials for effective informal learning I wrote a couple of years ago for the ASTD Handbook. Most learning is self-directed. Conversations are the stem cells of learning. People learn by doing. Learning is social. Praise courageous conversations.

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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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Learning Research Learner Knowledge 44

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 18, 2015

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 23, 2012

This morning I revisited the delightful story of how people learn to do their jobs at New Seasons Market , a chain of nine natural food stores in Portland, Oregon. New Seasons exemplifies taking a non-training alternative to workplace learning. That New Seasons is a people-oriented business echoes in their approach to learning.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

When the book on informal learning came out, nay-sayers attacked me as some kind of loony. QUESTION: How do you know that informal learning works? ANSWER: How did you learn to walk and talk? How did you learn to kiss? QUESTION: How can you measure what people learn? Can informal learning do any worse?

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 5, 2012

The cost of experiential learning is rarely measured. Stretch assignments lead to informal learning. Experiential learning is powerful because it deals with real problems in context. Application reinforces what’s learned. An organization that leaves experiential and informal learning to chance is squanders opportunity.

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Leadership Learning Behavior Instructional Design 53

Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2011

A few quick impressions from my initial skim of Learning while Working , a summary report on eight years of European research grants and studies of informal learning in the workplace: This is an amazingly Euro-centric report. Implying that trainers have to get on board to implement informal learning is wacky.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Informal Learning begins with these words: “THIS IS A BOOK about knowledge workers, twenty-first-century business, and informal learning. formal learning of all kinds ? channels some important learning but doesn’t carry the heaviest load. This is a knowledge economy.&#. “Training&# ?

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

How ready are you to tackle Big L Learning? Our people are learning and growing fast enough to keep up with the future. ? We learn something from every interaction with a customer. ? Assessing the cost/benefit of experiential learning is like asking for a cost/benefit of your telephone connections. Higher morale.

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Social Networks Collaborative Learning Collaboration Wiki 57

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

I sensed that learning and knowledge management were converging and invited bloggers form both sides to get together at the Tidehouse to share viewpoints and guzzle beer. If you’re into meta-learning, you should track what’s going on there. Corporate learning and KM are both about getting the job done.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Judy Brown is talking about mobile learning: it’s more that eLearning lite. M-learning : Pervasive. When is learning needed? When learning for the first time. When wanting to learn more. They should be called gateways to all human knowledge.&#. Laptops are mobile but not in Judy’s book.

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LearnTrends Mobile Learning Mobile Augmented Reality 41

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Karl Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll have written a definitive book on virtual worlds, Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension in Enterprise Learning and Collaboration. Karl and Tony see a phase change in how people learn. Everyone will want to read the nine cases which demonstrate a variety of learning environments.

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Metrics Second Life Simulations Instructional Design 41

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Learning is social. So why are so many of the forays into learning technology anti-social? Joe has been marrying people, technology, and learning since the early days. He ran Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe Interactive Studio before he became VP, Platform & Technology for Second Life at Linden Labs.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I am really looking forward to attending the VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning in Barcelona next month! Different designs, tools and functionalities of social learning networks will be evaluated. Different designs, tools and functionalities of social learning networks will be evaluated.

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