Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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May – June 15 Great Ones

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Study: Twitter Is Not a Very Social Network - ReadWriteWeb , May 11, 2010. Blog – The Fundamental Limits of Privacy For Social Networks - Technology Review Feed – Tech Review Top Stories , May 4, 2010. On social media policies in the workplace - Karyn’s Erratic Journey , May 18, 2010.

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Corporations need to catch up on open content

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Before YouTube Edu and iTunes U made video and audio lectures by the best professors in the country available for free, and before college students built Facebook into the world’s largest social network, changing the way we all share information. I predict we’re going to see more and more shared corporate content.

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How to support informal learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Cross: Formal learning can be somewhat effective when things don’t change much and the world is predictable. organizations spend so much money on formal learning but spend little (if any) in support of informal learning? That’s what we saw in the command-and-control corporate world of the mid-twentieth century.