Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Internet culture

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Transparency : Seeing the inside of an organization enables us to collaborate with it to make things better. You’ve got to know an organization or person to form a relationship. Five-person companies use Salesforce.com for customer relationship management. You cannot make friends with someone hidden behind a garden wall.

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L&D Suicide?

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Sustainable organizations gain flexibility by empowering their people to make decisions rather than thinking people are mere cogs in a machines. Workers in a Pull organization are delegated the power to solve problems and get things done in the absence of fixed procedures and direct supervision. Many organizations are not ready.).

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Learning in times of economic meltdown

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

This fluid state affords re-organizing, re-arranging, and replacing the status quo. 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. personal learning is essential in addition to managemental learning change.

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Informal learning from the horse’s mouth

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I’ve been ranting about informal and computer-supported learning in organizations for twelve years now. The eLearning Coach is where I share actionable strategies, practical content, personal reviews and resources to help you design, develop and understand online learning. I make 95% of my work available on the net at no charge.

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Informal learning patterns

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Learnscaping , Getting Things done in Organizations , is now available on Amazon for $25 + shipping. Learnscaping describes a dozen learning patterns, e.g. processes that organizations are using to improve performance through networked informal learning. Online content is the end point of group-level work; it is finished goods.

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The New Social Learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media. In person is always best. Re: Second Life) It all seems too sic-fi, too unreal for my organization. The New Social Learning. By Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco. People will waste precious time. Some people will just lurk.

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Competenz

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

They concluded that: In the competence society it will not be enough to “know about” something; “the ability to perform” is a decisive factor in personal success. Personal competence and being capable of performing a job in a way that generates added value are factors which make the individual an attractive job candidate.