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

JANUARY 7, 2013

Academics and instructional designers will tell anyone who wants to listen just how important formal training is, as it fades in relevance to both learners and businesses.The ITA will keep on questioning the status quo and show how work is learning and learning is the work in the network era – some will listen, many will not. Clark Quinn.

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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. For the better part of twenty years, school indoctrinated us that formal learning was the legitimate way to learn, that teachers and books provided the knowledge one needed to master, and that grades were the measure of accomplishment.

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Informal Learning Informal Trust ROI 66

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

MARCH 13, 2011

The proportions of formal and informal learning vary with the task at hand, the context for learning, and the psyche of the learner. I want a model that provides more depth and guidance. Generally, informal learning carries anywhere from four to ten times the weight of formal learning. 10% from formal training. It’s beta.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2011

it provides registration and ties to a financial system for charge-backs. How about getting learners to pull content to themselves? It’s jarring to listen to a message that is so contrary to the headline. The customer likes them because… it enabled his organization to deliver 200% more training.

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Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

From extensive fieldwork, the Institute for Research on Learning developed seven Principles of Learning that provide important guideposts for organizations. We are all natural lifelong learners. The real work. The poetry of what it takes to get something done. These are not “Tablets from Moses.” They are not a mantra. Not a dogma.

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Jay Cross

MAY 2, 2015

Improving their learning efficiency will provide billions of hours over the long term to redeploy on activities with a higher return. I want to empower workers to be intuitive instructional designers as well as self-directed learners by sharing what we know. Project is taking shape at internettimealliance.net.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2012

rms, and sometimes even provide leads for new business. They provide a variety of means of for workers to get the information they need. How self-directed learners learn. Mentors and coaches give assignments that provide new challenges and therefore require learning. exibility and spark innovation.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Successfully Market to Learners. Seven years ago, Lance Dublin and I wrote a book entitled Implementing eLearning. The cover explained… Here Is How To: Manage the Change to E-Learning. Create an Implementation Strategy. These are the 100 most frequently used words in this book.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2010

tools give learners more control, by allowing them to easily create, share or reuse their own learning materials, and these tools also enable social learning networks that bridge the border between formal and informal learning. Don’t get me wrong. Connections matter more important than content.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 27, 2011

For me, in reference to effective teaching, we can’t stop talking about context or the need to provide it as part of our instructional plan. Michael Allen said, “There is no such thing as a bored learner. Maybe we need to push harder on these “code words.&#.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

Understanding the needs of the learners and following up after the event are also essential for formal learning success. Providing stretch experiences that help their team members learn and develop. Post 5 You will need to become a champion for the new approach to developing talent.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

Learners can give more than they take by sharing what they learned and how they learned it with others.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Web-based analytics are easily baked into online communities such as this, and Google now provides a service that enables a Web site to compare itself to its peers. Customer-learners keep coming back. When thousands of people join a community, its conveners need metrics to assess progress and chart their next steps. Here’s why: 1.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Organisationally, I think we do need to determine learning paths and programmes of learning and development so that we can provide our employees with the opportunities they need to develop. Technology now has provided a way for people to reach through cyberspace and learn from each other (social networking). If this is what Web 2.0

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Moderator (Clark Quinn): @amy conceptualize the broader perspective re: learners, learning components? Sandy E: In this context, I think ADDIE simply provides a way to organize and structure the things that we're exploring. stevenasstrom: NexGen learners are demanding immediate realtime feedback, annually is eons to them.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Organisationally, I think we do need to determine learning paths and programmes of learning and development so that we can provide our employees with the opportunities they need to develop. Technology now has provided a way for people to reach through cyberspace and learn from each other (social networking). If this is what Web 2.0

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Blended Learning Social Networks Training Train 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Organisationally, I think we do need to determine learning paths and programmes of learning and development so that we can provide our employees with the opportunities they need to develop. Technology now has provided a way for people to reach through cyberspace and learn from each other (social networking). If this is what Web 2.0

Blended Learning 36

Blended Learning Social Networks Training Train 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Organisationally, I think we do need to determine learning paths and programmes of learning and development so that we can provide our employees with the opportunities they need to develop. Technology now has provided a way for people to reach through cyberspace and learn from each other (social networking). If this is what Web 2.0

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Blended Learning Social Networks Training Train 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Organisationally, I think we do need to determine learning paths and programmes of learning and development so that we can provide our employees with the opportunities they need to develop. Technology now has provided a way for people to reach through cyberspace and learn from each other (social networking). If this is what Web 2.0

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Feature | Block cynan_sez #learntrends 48% of surveyed uk orgs provide no collaborative support to learning ( @lauraoverton ) -10:17 AM Nov 18th, 2009. Feature | Block cynan_sez #learntrends @jcross : “CLOs need to become Chief Meta-learning Officers&# … dont assume ppl (staff) are good learners -9:09 AM Nov 18th, 2009.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Esteemed co-learners, your job is to create new co-learning communities. The people are free-range learners. Our role is to protect their environment, provide nutrients for growth, and let nature take its course. Provide a single, simple, all-in-one interface, like that provided by Google for search.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 2, 2012

A sustainable social business provides the means and motivation for workers to learn what they need: the know-how, know-who, and know-what to get things done and get better at doing them. Organizations must provide the scaffolding that focuses on discovery, practice, sharing, and reinforcement. What it takes. New scope of learning.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Group work advice for MOOC providers. The most valuable aspect of MOOCs is that the large number of learners enables the formation of sub-networks based on interested, geography, language, or some other attribute that draws individuals together. . global flood of learners has turned up for courses on every imaginable topic.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Google has tapped the power of online collaboration to solve business problems and engage learners. Arguably, we have significantly more data about our learners than Amazon.com has about their customers, and yet we do practically nothing to leverage that data to customize the learning experience. Learning 2.0 Marc Rosenberg.

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Jay Cross

MAY 24, 2011

You need to provide a framework for informal learning, but experienced workers don’t want to go to “courses.”. It includes events, is generally static and the end result is that the learner comes away knowing things. Dirty words: training, learner eLearning, informal, social, school, learning. It is a fluid, holistic, process.

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Jay Cross

MAY 26, 2015

Corporate learning must expand from focusing on the classroom, which provides at best 10% of learning, to the entire organization where learning while doing is the rule. The Workscape should address the needs of learners throughout the extended enterprise. Friends and colleagues provide answers. Mentors, coaching.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 22, 2011

Free-range learner. Best Practices look backward, providing advice that worked in the past; Next Practices focus on what to do in the time ahead. Why you cannot step in the same river twice. Nothing is permanent; everything flows. Also, the euphoria that accompanies flowing in sync with your reality. Often discovery learning.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 24, 2013

Group work advice for MOOC providers. The most valuable aspect of MOOCs is that the large number of learners enables the formation of sub-networks based on interested, geography, language, or some other attribute that draws individuals together. These are the most highly rated articles so far this year: GEORGE SIEMENS. MARCH 10, 2013.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

In response to the number of learners, the term MOOC (massive open online course) was coined by Dave Cormier and Bryan Alexander. If you look closely at people who are succeeding in this new digital world of work, you’ll notice they have something in common: they’re fast learners and they’re willing to adapt. JUNE 16, 2012.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

DavidPerring #qmooc MOOCs have an intrinsic value to Businesses by triggering life long learners. -10:33 KathiEdwards RT @brandonwcarson : Dream: Siemens, Downes, Griffith provide a job aid on how to design a MOOC. 10:33 AM Feb 27th, 2013. QMOOC -10:24 AM Feb 27th, 2013. gsiemens MOOCs suffering signal to noise issue.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

The learner is responsible. How many learners believe the subject matter of classes and workshops is “the right stuff?” Workers reported that informal learning was three times more important in becoming proficient on the job than company-provided training. Many learners are not self-directed; they are waiting for directions.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Needless to say, the “capital of Silicon Valley&# has a different take on providing wifi. Google provides a lot of the infrastructure social learning rides on; they own Blogger, YouTube, GoogleDocs, GoogleAnalytics, and so forth. I became a “pull&# learner, pursuing what I wanted aggressively and bypassing the rest.

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Jay Cross

MAY 1, 2012

Two actions that can begin even before a formal offer is made: Providing access to an online knowledge base. When the Learner is the Teacher, Do We Need Instructional Designers? CEOs now realize that creativity trumps other leadership characteristics. MORE >> HAROLD JARCHE. APRIL 19, 2012. Using social media for onboarding.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

I recognize that learner-centric is the wrong term. It should be learners-centric. Most important of all, the Web software provides a social layer that connects people with one another and with information. The common denominator is that learning enables the learner to function better in his or her environment.

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