Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Personal Learning Environment 2010

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

George writes: Announcing: Open Course – Personal Learning Environments, Networks, and Knowledge. This should be fun… Stephen Downes , Dave Cormier , and I will be offering an open course on Personal Learning Environments, Networks, and Knowledge , starting September 13. If you’re interested, you can sign up here. Why am I interested?

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Personal Knowledge Management

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Pergamon Museum, Berlin.

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Social Learning Examples

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

She covers blogs, collaborative calendaring, podcasting, feeds, collaborative mind-mapping, microblogging, photo sharing, screencast sharing, presentation sharing, video sharing, social bookmarking, collaborative editing and working and presentations, social networking, personalized start pages, and integrated social/collaborative environments.

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Social Media Camp

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Mind you, many in the audience were one- or two-person businesses, so their answers may not account for much. Who do you suppose is in charge of social media within companies? In the group, 10% lodge it under PR. The remaining 90% consider social media a marketing function.

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Can You Hear Me Now?

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

‘Remember that you are talking “with&# a person, not “at&# one.’ Remember that if you’re the non-talker, you control and manipulate the communication by constantly curtailing conversation, which can be hurtful to the other person. ’ Let the talker talk. Really listen.

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Learning in times of economic meltdown

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Personal challenges (think of the Volkswagen 5000 program and Google’s policy of dedicating 20% time to independent innovation projects) will be come more common than costly top-down attempts to impose projects from the top. So we all better gear ourselves to overcome this crisis, both on a personal and on an institutional level.

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Social Contagion

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

A person’s happiness is related to the happiness of their friends, their friends’ friends, and their friends’ friends’ friends—that is, to people well beyond their social horizon. And we found that each additional happy friend increases a person’s probability of being happy by about 9%.