Jay Cross

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Conferences can be better, a whole lot better

Jay Cross

Attendance at the events I examined (eLearning Guild, Masie, Training, ATD, Learning & Technology, Educa) is rising. Make this mandatory. Conference ends with plan for distributing ideas back to home organization and team. Business is good. John Seely Brown says every business model will be disrupted.

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Jay the Novice

Jay Cross

Ten years ago Elliott Masie led a workshop for eLearning vendors at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle. POP is more like a VIP club than a training school. Honchos from dozens of top-tier eLearning companies filled the lecture theater. Everybody was new at this, so we spent a lot of time on nuts and bolts.

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

The meme of learning was replacing training. Training is something trainers push to trainees. You couldn't very well call this training. Elliott Masie's bio says he is "acknowledged as the first analyst to use the term e-Learning." E-loan announced e-track. People read e-zines and e-books. e + learning.

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Contents of the informal cloud book

Jay Cross

Close the Training Department, 76. Elliott Masie, 139. Golden Age of Training, 66, 72. Chief Learning Officer magazine, 192. China, 145. Christopher Alexander, 26. Cisco, 77, 79, 86, 129, 151, 152, 153, 187. Clark Quinn, 71, 186. Clay Shirky, 14, 185. Cliff Atkinson, 154. Clueless, 3. Cluetrain Manifesto , 69, 141, 184.

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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

While you may be part of sales organization 60 and training district 12, that turns out to have not much to do with how you learn or affiliate. At Elliott Masie’s TechLearn in late 1998, I gave my first live presentation predicting the future of networked learning. Forget top down. Think bottom up.

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My evolving learning journey

Jay Cross

It’s not just for newbs any more, although the event is conflicted about ditching training for learning: for taking taking the game into the 21st century where pull replaces push. I attended ASTD, eLearning, Online Learning, Elliott Masie’s TechLearn, Training, ISPI (then NSPI), and many others.