Jay Cross

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Kevin Wheeler: How Gen Y Learns

Jay Cross

They watch play computer games, watch movies on the Internet, have made YouTube their favorite destination." And because of them book-based learning, lectures, stand-up teaching, grades, honor rolls, and all the other paraphernalia of the 20thcentury will fade away faster than we image." They hardly read.

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Flipping Corporate Learning

Jay Cross

The learner can watch the mini-lectures when it’s convenient to do so. First, we see that video content is engaging to students — many of whom grew up on YouTube — and easy for instructors to produce. What if instead, educators spent class time doing and homework time for the watching of lessons/lectures.

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Top 50 Posts on Working Smarter for May 2011

Jay Cross

Abandon lectures: increase attendance, attitudes and attainment - Donald Clark Plan B , May 15, 2011. Why Don’t You Have an Internal YouTube Video Sharing Service? - Dan Pontefract , May 16, 2011. MoveOn Co-Founder Talks Social Networking - Jay Cross , May 31, 2011. A big question - David Weinberger , May 1, 2011.

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Hangout on Personal Knowledge Management and other topics

Jay Cross

My knowledge of Kahn is very limited–b ut essentiall y it’s a lecture. Hangout on Air, February 8, 10-11:00 am Pacific. Our first weekday Hangout on Air. Attendance was down. Probably not the best weekday to try. Colin Kilburn. assuming you have a capable learner … it is hard to transfer documentat ion that does not exist.

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So many thoughts, so little time

Jay Cross

Lecturing – stupidest profession? YouTube videos inside Slideshare , January 23, 2009. Sir Ken Robinson – The Element - elearningpost , February 25, 2009. eLearning is not the answer - Internet Time , February 20, 2009. Is this the time for a New Renaissance and Reformation? Robert Paterson’s Weblog , April 13, 2009.

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Working Smarter: Most popular posts of 2011

Jay Cross

Recording can improve a bad lecture! 7 surprising facts about recorded lectures - Donald Clark Plan B , September 17, 2011. Abandon lectures: increase attendance, attitudes and attainment - Donald Clark Plan B , May 15, 2011. EmbedPlus : enhanced YouTube embedding , January 4, 2011. Other Sources.

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Dust-up at Training Zone

Jay Cross

Informal learning is not a new concept for goodness sake - even universities (who hav elong been guilty of lecturing for reasons of numbers) deliver many management courses informally - BUT within a formal structure so that it is coherent and understandable. There are those that do not prefer to learn in front of a PC.