Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Take this free, brief, online course on Learning to Learn

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Yesterday I put together a sample course to put SpacedEd to the test. Users are also given performance data (their course progress and performance relative to peers) which feeds their addiction to the courses. I was skeptical. People are supposed to learn by answering questions they at first don’t know the answers to? History quiz.

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Blogging to show off your organization

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

chooses its bloggers through a contest, in which applicants submit samples of their writing. “There’s no better way for students to learn about a college than from other students.”. Students get off on the blogging: M.I.T.

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Under the radar: great technologies you could be using

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

EyeJot for video email and a sample. Community , where you can add comments and ask questions after this session. overview of these pages on Jing. Publishing. Mimeo on-demand publishing for training. Lulu on-demand publishing for books. Veodia video directly to the cloud. Scribd “social publishing&# for documents. Collaboration.

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Donald Clark on training departments…

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Most evaluation is ‘after the event’ when it’s too late and revolves around happy sheets, with its crap sampling and irrelevant data. Training is also locked into a form of evaluation that guarantees that it won’t be taken seriously. Few ever get near level 4, where the real action lies. Kill Kirkpatrick before he kills you.

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How to support informal learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

You can learn a lot about cause and effect by interviewing a sample of workers in depth. Given an adequate sample size, you can reliably generalize about the whole group. The only thing that counts is business results. The arbiter of business results is the executive who’s footing the bill.