Jay Cross

OCTOBER 15, 2012

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

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

These examples grow didactic and digital competencies of learning professionals and improve relevant skills and capabilities for learners. Share solutions, services or products for educators, learners, trainers and learning providers which support innovative methodologies, didactics and pedagogies and effectively use digital tools.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2015

Not useful for solo learners. A How-To Guide on Becoming an Excellent Learner and Fast Reader. Become a Super Learner. Otherwise, I guess super-learners don’t learn from people and events. “Use animation to spice up a course.” remember that you are training adults.” Become familiar with AICC and SCORM.” By Don Long.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

On Facebook, I was asked to fill out a questionnaire to determine whether I’m an informal learner. (We We are all informal learners.). (That varies by what’s being learned, who’s doing the learning, and a lot of other factors. It’s not an organization-wide choice.).

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Jay Cross

APRIL 17, 2012

The learner can watch the mini-lectures when it’s convenient to do so. The learner controls the pace by pausing, replaying, or fast-forwarding. Learners convene to get answers to questions, discuss examples, put what they’ve learned in context, debate, explore, and extend their knowledge.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Learner-created content presents a challenge to CLOs: they want to control it. Learner-created content is out of control by definition. help employees become effective DIY learners by making Real Learning available organization-wide. They don’t need him any more. EasyGenerator CEO Kasper Spiro points out that you can’t.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 30, 2015

Thinking about learning from the learner’s point of view is different from looking on it as a learning executive or instructional designer. Many will be stuck in place there, non-learners who couldn’t keep up with the flow. It’s the underground passageway to success. I’d rather work with them directly.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 30, 2013

Engaging Learners by Clark Quinn. Informal Learning by Jay Cross. A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. Working Smarter Fieldbook by Jay Cross. Implementing eLearning by Jay Cross. Social Learning Handbook by Jane Hart. The New Social Learning by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. The Connected Company by Dave Gray.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 10, 2015

I’m investigating what it takes for a learner to become self-sufficient, to both learn and design learning experiences. How many books look at learning from the point of view of the learner? I plan to write an eBook on learning for learners. is a set of practices I’m developing to help pull-workers learn to learn.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 9, 2014

All living things are learners. Learning is the process of making improvements. Try to imagine thinking without learning. Feedback nurtures change in behavior and beliefs. That’s learning. I don’t have an fMRI machine to prove it, but I imagine that learning occurs all over our brains. Brain Science Meta-Learning'

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Jay Cross

JUNE 6, 2013

Many L&D departments act as if their work is over once the learner walks out the door. Yet research finds that people forget the majority of what they learn in workshops and classrooms. Typically, only 15% of what’s covered in a workshop ever shows up on the job! I hold them accountable to the point that performance changes.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Learning is formal when someone other than the learner sets curriculum. Formal learning is pushed on learners. By contrast, informal learners usually set their own learning objectives. Learners are pulled to informal learning.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 25, 2015

This is one of thousands of findings from benchmarking studies drawing on the experiences of more than 3,500 L&D professionals and 16,000 learners. WHAT DO LEARNERS VALUE HIGHLY FOR LEARNING? 63% lack of time for self-study. 40% can’t find what they need. 41% find current online learning not relevant to their need. 73% web search.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 23, 2012

Co-host Jenny Zhu filled me in on how this Shanghai-based company is helping adult learners, 60% of them from the U.S., Most of Chinese Pod’s learners are 25-50 year old adults who are learning Chinese for personal growth, as a hobby, or because they have Chinese spouses or kids. attain fluency.

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Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

Imagine what adult learners could do if we encourage them and let them learn with one another. 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.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 20, 2015

Some learners are active, others merely receptive. Learners teach. We see elaborate social exchanges where roles and status and self-image come into play. Some learning is planned; other learning just happens. Some are gaining information, others pick up new skills, and yet others are developing something deeper, beliefs.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 12, 2013

Informal learning in a nutshell is giving control to the learner and setting up an environment that encourages experimentation and discovery.” People don’t like being told what to do and they usually don’t remember what they’re told for very long. ” 702010'

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

Learning that is more formal has a curriculum: content and objectives that are set by someone other than the learner. The learner chooses the subject matter and often decides how and when to learn it. Learning is neither formal nor informal; it’s always a bit of both. Often people learn formally in groups at set times.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 11, 2015

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Rather, it is a construction of ideas negotiated by the learner in a social setting.” The frog swims, carrying his passenger, feels an ominous sting. Why, he asks.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 13, 2012

We’ll look at what makes people happy, how this impacts working and learning, and what you and your organization can do to be happier, better learners. Join Jay to talk about the notion of well being and its importance on the job. Lead a happier life. Assess your own well being. Learn about the Positive Psychology Movement. Live longer!

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Jay Cross

APRIL 1, 2013

Engaging Learners by Clark Quinn. On April 30, I’ll award a copy of a book I really liked (or wrote) to a baker’s dozen of participants: Informal Learning by Jay Cross . A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. Working Smarter Fieldbook by Jay Cross. Implementing eLearning by Jay Cross.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Learners convene to get answers to questions, discuss examples, put what they’ve learned in context, debate, explore, and extend their knowledge. Instructors, freed of the need to mouth the words of lessons, focus on helping learners understand things and coaching individuals.

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Jay Cross

JULY 4, 2012

We’ll look at what makes people happy, how this impacts working and learning, and what you and your organization can do to be happier, better learners. Join Jay to talk about the notion of well being and its importance on the job. Lead a happier life. Assess your own well being. Learn about the Positive Psychology Movement. Live longer!

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

It depends on the context: what’s to be learned, who’s learning it, and where’s the learner starting from. They deal with learners who are enrolled. QUESTION: How do you know learning on the job is 80% informal? ANSWER: Study after study arrives at that figure but it’s a generality. They provide top-down classes and rigid content.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

Writing it has reinforced my belief that the way to become a better learner is to construct a better network. The 45-question survey is here. I suggest you take it. I’m finishing up my next book, Informal Learning in Business. A early step is reflecting on your current network. Who are you connected to? Where do you go to learn things?

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Building out relationships through social networking is not just an HR issue – it’s connected to the ability to become a lifelong learner. How do we prepare learners for the skills of the future, and also how do we prepare them to engage with the ecosystem? Exposing people to other people who know what they don’t know.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 6, 2012

provide case studies and examples to help people become self-sufficient “pull” learners. 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.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 22, 2011

How about getting learners to pull content to themselves? They are backing away from the sort of rigid content that appears in catalogs and embracing learning on demand in small chunks. Registration has nothing to do with informal delivery: how could it? Pushing content to instructors?

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Jay Cross

MARCH 5, 2010

Independent learning – demand-driven choice by the learner. I prefer calling the bookends of the spectrum of corporate learning… Traditional learning — institutional control, paternalism. Traditional learning is not better than independent learning or vice-versa; context determines utility. What are your thoughts about this?

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Gina : pocket video cams are cheap, put ‘em in the hands of learners, upload to YouTube. That encompasses learning & pedagogy, creativity, tech, and business. Ellen : data-driven decision-making is on the way. Aaron : The more we share, the more we connect, the more we learn. Q&A: Etiquette on Twitter: don’t be an asshole.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 22, 2015

Learning is experiential, and stretch assignments give learners new experiences. People learn by doing. Encourage experimentation. Ensure that managers and mentors understand the impact of stretch assignments. Teach people the least they need know to tackle things on their own.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 14, 2010

This is of course an average; the value depends on the context and the individual learner. People learn socially and informally. Research usually finds that around 80% of workplace learning is informal.

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Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

We are all natural lifelong learners. We perceive our identities in terms of our ability to contribute and to affect the life of communities in which we are or want to be a part. Failure to learn is often the result of exclusion from participation. Learning requires access and the opportunity to contribute. All of us, no exceptions.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 12, 2012

I’ve been ruminating about what people really need in their learning toolkit to be self-sufficient, effective, turned-on learners. Every independent learner needs these “pull skills.” We’re all in this together. I may write a book on it.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

He discussed a form of knowledge that would involve learners thinking about and confronting themselves with the uncertainties and dilemmas in their own lives. Learning is at the heart of personal change and transformation, and the learner needs to take risks and deal with changing situations in his or her environment.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

There’s a lot bigger bang for the buck in making the learning ecosystem supportive of learner-directed “pull” learning. Salas offers common sense advice on making the 10% work better.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 18, 2011

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Rather, it is a construction of ideas negotiated by the learner in a social setting.” The frog swims, carrying his passenger, feels an ominous sting. Why, he asks.

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