Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 11, 2009

At Online Educa Berlin last month, I hosted a small discussion on Learning in Times of Economic Meltdown. Since adaptation is the key to survival and learning is the enabler of adaptation, the learning function may be able to get on to the CEO’s agenda. The drive for value will increase demand for learning in smaller chunks.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2006

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 14, 2010

Best of Informal Learning Flow. Performance Learning Productivity , May 28, 2010. Mobile operating systems and browsers are headed in opposite directions - OReilly Radar , May 17, 2010. Workscape evolution - Informal Learning , May 7, 2010. Working (and Learning?) Why bash the LMS? What is data science?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Learning is a continuum of degrees of formality • BY JAY CROSS. In the five years since the publication of Informal Learning, I’ve become the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. Informal learning is older than civilization. Often, formal learning is delivered to many people at once. It’s efficient.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 1, 2010

Jane Hart chimed in, reinforcing Harold’s point that “social learning is being picked up by software vendors and marketers as the next solution-in-a-box, when it’s more of an approach and a cultural mind-set&#. I watched vendors hi-jack the term eLearning, and I don’t want to see it happen to social or informal learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Just as the Google Search Appliance enables companies to find needles in haystacks behind their firewalls, Wave is likely to replace lots of wikis and content management systems. There’s bound to be LMS functionality in there somewhere, too. Don’t buy that new LMS quite yet. The user interface is confusing.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 31, 2009

Learning will be redefined as problem-solving, achieving fit with one’s environment and having the connections to deal with novel situations. We’re scrapping the LMS posthaste. All of our energies will go into peer-to-peer, self-service learning. Training is obsolete because it deals with a past that won’t be repeated.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 8, 2006

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 19, 2009

My pal Tony O’Driscoll asked me to help spread the word about the upcoming 3D Training Learning and Collaboration (3DTLC) conference in Washington DC next month. The difficulty of learning to use a virtual environment is a barrier to wide adoption by corporations. What might IBM learn about leadership from games?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The new face of learning was made of our faces. I was delighted to find my Belgian friend Inge de Waart at the Mobile Learning Camp. David Mallon (Bersin Assocates) said he’d talked with 60 LMS vendors — and not a single one wanted to be known as an LMS vendor. The LMS is market is not dead by any means.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 24, 2010

L ast year I led workshops in London, Madrid , San Jose, Quebec, and Berlin on how to sell social networking and informal learning to senior management. Here we go: Learning is a dirty word because executive managers have a hard time hearing it. Learning taints the conversation. CLO online edition. Dirty Words.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Books such as The Working Smarter Fieldbook, Informal Learning, & Engaging Learning. Tags: Informal Learning itimealliance. Video records of the proceedings. Fee for the day is $1,200. Two from a single organization, $1,000 each. Yes, you are essentially funding our plane tickets and picking up the tab for meals.).

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2010

In this private session, we discuss our latest thinking on what’s important in: social learning. enterprise learning governance. the impact of mobile learning. rethinking the role of the LMS. Books such as The Working Smarter Fieldbook & Engaging Learning. working smarter. breakthroughs in brain science.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 28, 2009

Informal Learning takes place in the context of work and life. Learnscaping — taking a systems view of learning in an organization — necessarily addresses a broad array of topics and disciplines. Informal Learning 2.0 - Internet Time , August 7, 2009. Role of an online community manager , August 27, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 17, 2010

Chief learning officers consider themselves enlightened if they provide workers with a month of training per year. Some creative workers would produce more value were they required to dedicate 11 months of the year to learning and one month to innovation and decision making. Learning to be” will supplant “learning to know.”.

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