Jay Cross

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Learning a language (1)

Jay Cross

Podcasts, more than a thousand of them, are part of the answer, but it takes more than exposure to 12-minute podcasts to master a language. Co-host Jenny Zhu filled me in on how this Shanghai-based company is helping adult learners, 60% of them from the U.S., attain fluency. 75% are native speakers of English.

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Steve Hargadon + Jay Cross

Jay Cross

If you listen to podcasts while exercising, perhaps you’ll enjoy the Audio of Steve letting me amble on for an hour. Steve Hargadon interviewed me about informal learning yesterday. Steve does his homework and asks great questions. A one-hour audio goes against my religion of brevity & less-is-more.

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Different ways of looking at it

Jay Cross

In a dialog with the No Name Group this morning, Melanie Swan clued me in to a great learning resource, HBS I deaCasts , a series of podcasts on senior management issues. Lately Harvard Business School Publishing, once a soporific, has been churning out lots of interesting stuff: newsletters, blogs, author interviews, and these podcasts.

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How to Replace Top-Down Training with Collaborative Learning (4)

Jay Cross

We distribute information through podcasts, blogs, or videos. ? Our people are learning and growing fast enough to keep up with the future. ? Anyone can set up an online meeting at our company. ? We take time to reflect on our experience. ? It’s easy to contribute to a blog or wiki. ?

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Flat World Knowledge

Jay Cross

Students will pay for print & audio versions of the text, podcast study guides, mobile phone flash cards, etc.) He and another text veteran formed Flat World Knowledge to reverse the tide. Flat World proposes to offer e-texts by known authors to students for free. Books will be printed on demand.

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Web 2.0, collective intelligence, and the future of learning

Jay Cross

Here’s a podcast of our chat. Yesterday in the “Blogtropolis&# room at Web 2.0 Expo , Chris Heuer signaled me to take a seat in the director’s chair alongside his for a chat. We spent twenty minutes talking about building on-line communities, enterprise 2.0,

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Jay Cross

Once a year I trek to Seattle to tap into the zeitgeist of blogs, podcasts, social networks, edgy stuff you don’t find elsewhere, amazing conversations in the hallways, widgets and gadgets, and other by-products of the limitless exuberance of Chris Pirillo. Not just any geeks. It’s all on video.