Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2009

He will provide case examples of organisations that are taking advantage of Twitter, blogs, wikis, and other social networking tools. How does your organisation stack up? Jay will review the results of the CLO/togetherLearn survey of meta-learning practices and learning culture.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 27, 2009

Moodle (the “M&# is for modular) has sprouted extensions and capabilities you’d expect in a constructivist environment such as forums, chats, and wikis to supplement traditional course management features. Moodle Course Conversion is a step-by-step cookbook for transferring existing course material into Moodle.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 1, 2010

In additional to social learning , vendors are claiming to provide informal learning. Instead of email, you get blogs and wikis tacked on. Thus, it’s generally a good practice to provide comfy nooks that foster conversations; it’s malpractice to tell people what they should talk about in those nooks. The “e&#

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Jay: Getting an answer from the Help Desk, asking Twitter friends for an answer, looking at a FAQ on a wiki. Other people are providing the context and the need, even if they’re not in the room. There’s a lengthy summary of this at Internet Time Wiki. Jay: Learning to walk, talk, eat, kiss, smooch, run or ride a bicycle.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2010

After succinct descriptions of what’s going on and why it matters, the book addresses the organizational roadblocks that inevitably arise and provides logical workarounds. We have a wiki but few people contribute. (Re: Wait – there’s more. Finished content is more valuable to works in progress.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field. Enough variety to provide a wide range of options Enough opportunities for informal fellowship to allow me to meet others. Provides an opportunity to interact with others and create collaborative work.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 12, 2010

. • Use social network analysis to locate and break bottlenecks. • Provide workers with smart phones, modern PCs, and internet access. • Seek opportunities to help customers, partners, temporary workers, alumni, and everyone else who works with the company work smarter. • Set up wikis and collaborative documents to avoid the proliferation of versions (..)

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