Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 6, 2009

What’s the future of the learning business? Are LMS vendors headed down the trail blazed by record stores? Are content providers going the way of print newspapers? Tony Karrer is orchestrating our next free LearnTrends event on these very questions. Join us July 23, 9 AM – 1 PM Pacific Time / 4 PM – 8 PM GMT.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 1, 2010

Taking advantage of the double meaning of the word network, to learn is to optimize the quality of one’s networks. When you see “informal learning&# on an LMS vendor’s brochure, you might inquire if they’re using Jay’s definition. And how they do that. Sleight of hand.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Delivered in courses or workshops or semesters or degree programs, episodes of formal learning always come to an end, although learning never does. Completion of a formal learning experience is generally celebrated by awarding a grade, certificate, degree, checkmark in an LMS or other symbol. It’s like riding a bus.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Taleo Acquires Learn.com: A Shoe Drops in the LMS Market - Josh Bersin , September 1, 2010. Giving up control - Informal Learning , November 2, 2010. Donald Clark’s “Don’t Lecture Me&# keynote at ALT-C 2010 - Fortnightly Mailing , September 12, 2010. Visual Social Media Aids - Full Circle , October 24, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 31, 2009

We’re scrapping the LMS posthaste. All of our energies will go into peer-to-peer, self-service learning. My assistants will become the director of sales readiness and the director of competitive advantage, respectively. The measure of our contributions will be results, not training measures.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 11, 2009

The drive for value will increase demand for learning in smaller chunks. Companies will eliminate measurement and control systems that do not deliver value. Good bye to the fancy LMS. Specialty areas, for example language learning, will be outsourced. Just give me what I need to know.”.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The issue we’re really addressing is whether the learning is mainly formal (imposed) or informal (sought). Three hallmarks of formal learning are: a curriculum, a schedule and recognition upon completion (even if only a checkmark in an LMS). Coach: What are examples of offline informal learning?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

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. They’re into talent management, social learning, or anything besides what they really do. The LMS is market is not dead by any means.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2010

We’d swap our views on recent thoughts emanating from Altimeter, IBM, Dan Pink, JSB, and others we listen to. Then we spotted a potential pitfall: the echo-chamber effect.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 24, 2010

By the way, I also contend that you can’t manage talent and that LMS do not manage learning. Learning is something people do for themselves. The smart money is betting on bottom-up knowledge bases, compiled and maintained, by the people who use them. Training is something you do to someone.

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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. working smarter. taking advantage of personal knowledge environments. breakthroughs in brain science. revised views of motivation.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 19, 2009

At Training Conferences they are pushed out of the limelight by Instructional Design Approaches and LMS vendors, and, until NOW, at the Virtual Worlds conferences it felt like Entertainment and Media was sucking up the bulk the oxygen. At the Serious Games conferences they are marginalized my the more jazzy games. NOT ANYMORE ; ).

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 8, 2006

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 28, 2009

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 – August Update , August 8, 2009. State of learning management systems in higher education , August 26, 2009. Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day: Some free online courses about e-learning , August 10, 2009. Work 2.0 , August 16, 2009. Kill the curriculum?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 17, 2010

At the dawn of the network age, managers enjoyed the luxury of annual planning. They communicated the firm’s goals to the training department, which in turn translated those goals into workshops, learning management systems and so forth. Today’s rapid changes require very responsive driving skills.

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