Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

If you’re unfamiliar with Google+ Hangouts, you should join us just to experience the platform: it’s going to shake up the video conferencing field. When the ten seats “on stage” are filled, the streaming video on YouTube is what to watch. Our Hangouts are “On Air.” You can tweet questions to us.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2012

The great news is that social and informal learning don’t require new systems because learning can take place on the same “platform” as the existing social network, if a company already has one. Social networks are the ideal platform for the new corporate learning, so let’s briefly examine how they support corporate learning.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The Workscape, a platform for learning. Developing a platform to support informal learning is analogous to landscaping a garden. Let me choose and subscribe to streams of information I’m interested in, like BoingBoing, LifeHacker or Huffpost. Formal learning takes place in classrooms; informal learning happens in workscapes.

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Jay Cross

MAY 26, 2015

Activity stream keeps one up to date. Platform for conversation. Job aids, bookmarks, FAQs, aggregation, curation. Access to information. Wiki, inhouse YouTube, internet. Self-study catalog, portals. Enterprise social network. Opportunity to share knowledge. Communities of Practice. Professional growth. Knowledge repository.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 15, 2011

Think flow: the feeling of drifting along a stream, being carried in a clear direction, but still tossed in surprising ways by the eddies and whirls of moving water. The real benefit of stacked platforms lies in the knowledge you no longer need to have. We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 30, 2012

Education as Platform: The MOOC Experience and what we can do to make it better - Stephen Downes: Half an Hour , March 23, 2012. Yammer and why activity streams are a key foundation for integrated applications and organizations - Ross Dawson , March 26, 2012. . “Go With The Flow” CIO Magazine (NZ & Aus.) Not so much.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

Of course there’s no guarantee that the fab plant wouldn’t be another white elephant when it comes on stream in three years. This eLearning infrastructure would give Charlie a platform for broadcasting and reinforcing his message about transforming our organization. The breeze is picking up outside. I bet it rains tonight.

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