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Summarizing Learn for Yourself

Jay Cross

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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Informal Learning Revisited

Jay Cross

The book made the case that most learning about how to do a job is informal. An organization that fails to address informal learning leaves a tremendous amount of learning to chance. Most corporations spend most of their training budget on formal learning, despite the fact that most of the learning that goes on is informal.

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Where’s Your Electronic Learning Record?

Jay Cross

It’s as bad a situation as with corporate learning records. If you’ve worked in a company with more than a thousand employees, your company’s Learning Management System (LMS) has probably assembled a dossier on what courses you’ve completed and perhaps a score on how well you did.

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Dated best practices

Jay Cross

More that people who learn together bond. . . compliance-training requirements cheaply and efficiently using. Use eLearning to provide on-demand learning. from senior management. and line managers. the training department and information. Create meaningful learning. Create a learning.

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Informal Learning 2.0

Jay Cross

The “learn” part highlights the importance of baking the principles of sound learning into that environment rather than leaving it to chance. Learning is formal when someone other than the learner sets curriculum. Formal learning is pushed on learners. They learn when they feel a need to know.

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No thanks

Jay Cross

You will find that: Internet Time Group does not purchase training programs, learning management systems, or advice. I have written several books on the subject. My work is close to being an open book. Read it before we talk. Internet Time Group is not interested in paying to attend your event.

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What Universities Must Learn About Social Networks

Jay Cross

Social networks empower workers to engage in self-determined “pull” learning. People learn their jobs while doing their jobs. They learn more in the coffeeroom that in the classroom. Some training departments see this as learning being out of control; workers flock to it for the same reason.