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Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JULY 11, 2010
Lessons from fifty years ago! Some will come and some will go. We shall surely pass. When the one that left us here. Returns for us at last. We are but a moment’s sunlight. Fading in the grass. C’mon people now, Smile on your brother. Ev’rybody get together. Try and love one another right now. Stephen Stills)
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 8, 2009
Push is the sort of learning you encountered in school, where authorities selected the curriculum and lessons were imposed on you. Furthermore, lessons learned through pull are more likely to stick because they’re relevant to perceived need, delivered when required, and usually reinforced with immediate application. Push and Pull.
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Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JULY 8, 2009
As I read, I jot down notes on how to inject its lessons into the cloud learning environments I call Learnscapes: Tags: metalearning. John Medina’s Brain Rules covers the latest scientific explanation of wetware through folksy, human stories. John is a masterful science writer. I am mid-way through Brain Rules.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
DECEMBER 19, 2009
Now that blogs have “crossed the chasm&# to wide-spread consumer acceptance, corporations are using blogs to capture expert knowledge and the lessons of experience. Twitter hosts more than 10 million microblogs and is growing at 1200+% a year. Google Wave is the johnny-come-lately.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
OCTOBER 20, 2010
The one lesson we should have learnt from the recent banking crisis is that compliance training hasn’t worked. There’s too many ‘courses’ and most could be shortened, as they’re padded out to fit the timetabled slot. Then there’s the flood of compliance programmes on equality, diversity and financial compliance.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
You know in your gut that some learning experiences are exhilarating; they impart lessons that will be with you for decades; they’re challenging but fun. Bean counters treat learning as if it were binary, present or not, when in fact learning outcomes are highly variable.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MARCH 27, 2010
A few lessons from this parable: The returns on decreasing time-to-performance can be so huge that even the crudest measure of ROI is often enough to demonstrate merit. asked Jerry. Zander said he’d attribute perhaps 3% of the revenue increase to the new program. Not bad, said Jerry. That’s $100 million in new sales (3% x $3.5
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