Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Yesterday’s New York Times carried this wonderful article on introductory physics lectures at MIT. I recall sitting in a crowded lecture hall listening to a profesor prattle on about Physics 101 with several hundred fellow bored Princeton students some forty years ago. It brought back bitter memories.

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Corporations need to catch up on open content

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Before YouTube Edu and iTunes U made video and audio lectures by the best professors in the country available for free, and before college students built Facebook into the world’s largest social network, changing the way we all share information. Free, open content provides an irresistible value proposition.

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Power of informal learning in developing managers

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Formal training occurs in the absence of action; learners are removed from the day-to-day work to engage in lectures, discussions, simulations, role plays, and other instructional activities. HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY, vol. 4, Winter 2003.

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Best of informal learning since September 1, 2010…

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Donald Clark’s “Don’t Lecture Me&# keynote at ALT-C 2010 - Fortnightly Mailing , September 12, 2010. Women absent from work more than men - Nine Shift , November 15, 2010. The White House Goes Whiteboard - Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English - , September 30, 2010.

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Mix of short, interactive, discussion sessions with lecture with application sessions. Response 26 Lectures Hypocrisy of people who lecture on why lectures are evil. I’m tired of learning conference sessions that are structured like lectures…don’t we know better?!? Related papers grouped together.

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Carl Rogers

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Student-centered learning, that is, putting students first, is in stark contrast to existing establishment/teacher-centred lecturing and careerism. Student-centered learning is focused on the student’s needs, abilities, interests, and learning styles with the teacher as a facilitator of learning.

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Reflections from Aachen

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

We endured a one-hour lecture at Aachen University by a consultant/professor who described an elaborate, multi-hundred-million Euro plan for Centers of Excellence. Even if you don’t go along with my doomsday scenario, isn’t the very possibility something to factor into your thinking? Some talked about what to do.

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