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Embedding social learning into texts and enterprise software

Jay Cross

He ran Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe Interactive Studio before he became VP, Platform & Technology for Second Life at Linden Labs. Joe described an elite group of engineers at IBM that replaced their bi-annual face-to-face sessions with meetings in Second Life. Second Life became a great equalizer.

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Learning on the Holodeck

Jay Cross

I don’t expect 3D learning environments to thrive in Second Life. Second Life is a pioneer and is the gorilla in the 3D space right now. Many workers’ minds are too calcified to handle the concept of avatars and alternative realities.

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Jay Cross

As for never having heard of SharePoint, known as ScarePoint to many of its users, read this post from Nancy White.

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Wikipedia’s 10th

Jay Cross

I wanted to be able to walk around in the knowledge space, sort of the Library of Alexandria meets Second Life. Another breakout discussed Wikipedia – the next ten years. What should evolve? I also pushed my current passion, the workscape. Why not give readers the option of checking a box that would prompt periodic reinforcement?

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Come Together

Jay Cross

Software such as Second Life allows executives — in avatar form — to give presentations to one another in virtual boardrooms. Online team rooms keep the lights on as projects move around the world, passed from one team to the next. Skype gives people the ability to place free video calls over the Net.

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Don’t you see it?

Jay Cross

One thing I don’t get yet is the IBM-in-Second Life thing. Thanks mainly to the Internet, “their world is different from the one into which we were born, therefore they start shearing and shaping different neural pathways from the outset. We may not even be able to see their unique gifts and efficiencies.”.

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