Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Every morning, my email is littered with very basic questions about informal learning. I’ve been ranting about informal and computer-supported learning in organizations for twelve years now. I’m the Johnny Appleseed of networked, social learning. In fact, the buzz about informal learning seems to grow every day.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Twitter takes the pulse here at Online Educa. Tim O’Reilly just posted a piece entitled Why I Love Twitter. A lot of my job is, as we say, “redistributing the future&# - following interesting people, and passing on what I learn to others. And twitter is an awesome tool for doing just that.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

#lrnchat is an online chat that happens every Thursday night 8:30-10pm EST / 5:30-7pm PST over the social messaging service Twitter. Participants are people interested in the topic of learning from one another and who want to discuss how to help other people learn. The official twitter account is @lrnchat.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Mobilize your users to support one another via Twitter. Here’s a worthy idea. This instance is part of the latest upgrade to Firefox. The push button takes you to their Tweetstream.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Surprisingly, wi-fi was not available, so our online socializing was confined to Twitter. Mind you, many in the audience were one- or two-person businesses, so their answers may not account for much. I’m going to take a poll asking who owns social media in large corporations.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Informal Learning Flow is back! It’s my one-stop-shop for keeping up with things that influence informal learning — and generally don’t show up on traditional learning sites. Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army” (Developing) - TechCrunch , December 17, 200. Tags: Informal Learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 14, 2010

Best of Informal Learning Flow. Performance Learning Productivity , May 28, 2010. On Twitter, Followers Don’t Equal Influence - HarvardBusiness.org , May 7, 2010. Workscape evolution - Informal Learning , May 7, 2010. Study: Twitter Is Not a Very Social Network - ReadWriteWeb , May 11, 2010. Why bash the LMS?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 5, 2010

Activity streams are sort of in between Twitter and Blogs. Here are some of the tools I added to my repertoire of handy freebies in 2009. Egoboo tools help you find yourself, you narcissist. Similar Site searches for sites with similar content to yours. Rypple is a web-based app that makes it easy to gather anonymous feedback quickly.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 27, 2009

Learning Technologies 2009. Learning technologies: the road ahead. Collaborative Learning; Blip.fm Smart Search, e.g. Informal Learning Flow. Jay’s learning ecosystem. Track 1 Session 1. Under the radar: great technologies that you could be using. URL for this page:[link]. TInyURL for this page: [link].

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

From the overview : While a keynote speaker is presenting, back channel conversations occur through Twitter, facts are checked through Google searches, and opinions are expressed on blogs.* The Learning Technologies conference in London last month held its own — but most of the attendees could take The Underground to get there.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 19, 2009

Learntrends is a series of online conversations among people with an interest in improving the process of learning in corporations and government. It’s the April installment of Corporate Learning Trends and Innovation. Learntrends welcomes anyone interested in organizational learning. Take advantage of this learning opportunity.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Twitter hosts more than 10 million microblogs and is growing at 1200+% a year. Ten years ago, the term blogosphere was invented — as a joke. Blogs were geeky lists of pointers and commentary. We bloggers knew one another. Then the public embraced blogs. There are more than 100 million blogs.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Here are the top sites from Informal Learning Flow for September 2009. 9 presentations on 9/9/09 - Workplace Learning Today , September 9, 2009. US Gov Report on Online Learning – a must read - Donald Clark Plan B , September 8, 2009. Corporations need to catch up on open content - Informal Learning , September 17, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 16, 2009

Professional learning is increasingly driven by demand, not supply. You decide what you need or want to learn and you go get it when you feel like it. In the realm of informal learning, I learn from David Weinberger, George Siemens, Nancy White, Ross Dawson, Mark Oehlert, Marcia Conner, and dozens of others. Until today.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 12, 2010

Cross is a champion of informal learning, Web 2.0, He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix three decades ago. learning management approaches that accelerate performance. I’m the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning.

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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. Twenty-One Top Twitter Tips - Forbes.com: News , August 1, 2009. Informal Learning 2.0 - Internet Time , August 7, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

Informal Learning 2.0 When I look at Informal Learning Flow , an aggregator that works over the sites I visit to keep informed, it’s a totally hedgehogian experience. The Latest from Informal Learning Flow. Twitter Brings Search On Site To All. is for foxes, not hedgehogs? These are all pieces of the puzzle.

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