Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy by Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel. The reasons to engage with open source include the following: * Getting high-quality, free software and software design and development help. Making your software ubiquitous through participation and low cost.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 27, 2009

Moodle is an open source course management system with a wide following. The Open University in the UK uses it to support 200,000 distance learners. My friends at CV&A in Spain have implemented Moodle to support informal learning in numerous corporations.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 8, 2009

But these curves may explain the rise of network-centric efforts ranging from open source software development to “crowdsourcing&# to “networks of creation.&# The evidence for the collaboration curve is, as yet, mostly anecdotal.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 11, 2009

The challenge for organizations is to use smart delivery, to replace classes with technology, to embrace open source, and perhaps to adopt a software-as-a-service model. Doing nothing is a sign of holistic corporate dyslexia: the inability to read the handwriting on the wall. learning touches all societal issues.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 31, 2009

Wherever possible, we’re replacing proprietary software with open source. 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. We’re scrapping the LMS posthaste.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

It’s a BarCamp, the Open Source Version of a Conference. Response 13 Interaction; good web conferencing software, audio and video elements, whiteboards, diverse contributions. Response 13 Crap software, terrible comms ie having to load software like webex and then make an international phone call.

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