Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 2, 2011

From the learner’s standpoint, it is always intentional: i.e. the learner’s explicit objective is to gain knowledge, skills and/or competences. The latest report says: Formal learning is always organised and structured, and has learning objectives. Often it is referred to as learning by experience or just as experience.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 30, 2010

Because skill guilds constrain… …(and defend) an organization, it is often far easier to start a new organization than to change a successful old one. From Kevin Kelly: Originally posted in New Rules. This is a major reason why the network economy is rich in start-ups.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 27, 2009

Unlike Drupal or ELGG, Moodle enables you to set up courses and learning environments without any programming skills… as long as you have a step-by-step guidebook like this one. If you’re a teacher and you’re wedded to content-delivery as your primary means of instruction, Moodle can be an excellent choice of platform.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

We can spread skills for solid group process as deeply and broadly as possible, or we can horde knowledge. To deepen the skills of those who serve as group process guides, leaders, hosts, and facilitators. We can support processes that empower people, or processes that prevent them from taking charge of their own lives.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 13, 2010

Onboarding, learning a new field, or acquiring technical skills often require Push, i.e. formal, learning. When workers take learning into their own hands, i.e. Pull, it’s called informal or social learning. Pull is not inevitably superior to Push. A culture of trust.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

He also recommends helping workers learn how to improve their learning skills as well as creating a supportive organizational culture. In the latter case, this might involve supporting innovation, which requires making failure ‘okay,’ and supporting participation in professional Communities of Practice.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

It is the survival skill and the key to prosperity. This is the thesis of the book I’m working on. It’s not yet beta; this is alpha. Give me feedback and I’ll continue to post as I write. In the network era, learning is the work. This book advocates investing in learning that demonstrably improves organizational performance.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 30, 2009

Saying that learning is the acquisition of skills and knowledge doesn’t go far enough. All learning is part formal and part informal; what impacts the results is finding the appropriate balance. Frankly, I expand the definition of learning because I feel the need to consider outcomes, not just activities.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 27, 2010

You need a 24/7 iPad attendee, so why not consider an iPad Au Pair?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 11, 2009

As we have seen with mergers and acquisitions, project management skills will be in high demand. Personal challenges (think of the Volkswagen 5000 program and Google’s policy of dedicating 20% time to independent innovation projects) will be come more common than costly top-down attempts to impose projects from the top.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2009

What skill sets will they need? Lastly, there are the arguments that you can’t measure (the results of learning). That’s giving up. From anecdotal snapshots, if you get consistent responses, then you have measured impact. LXB: What will the next generation of CLOs be like? Or, will we even have CLOs in the future?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Response 5 Content that is not right for the audience (too technical or not technical enough) - organizers should know the audience Speakers who do not have good presentation skills - orgainzers should review speakers or get references Presentation that is not well designed -. Response 35 Large luncheons or dinners.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 12, 2009

On Tuesday I led a session on Business Impact of Learning in the Real World for the Learning & Skills Group in London. After our presentations to the Learning and Skills Group, Jane Hart and I took a breather at the Pommery Champagne Bar in the Westfield Mall. Slides from the workshop are on SlideShare.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 24, 2010

You think of improving skills and increasing knowledge. Most of them are four letters long. His words were dirty; mine are bad for business. Here we go: Learning is a dirty word because executive managers have a hard time hearing it. They think of classes, teachers, and school. They remember how ineffective school was at getting things done.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 1, 2009

world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?&#. Harold Jarche also made the important point that ‘attitude trumps skills’ for a learning professional.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 10, 2009

Learning has become a corporate survival skill. Half of a high-school grads lack the fundamental skills required of an entry-level knowledge worker. Corporations of the future will often need to train their own in basic skills. Not just in class. It is a line responsibility. Learn or die.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Learning develops new capacities, skills, values, understanding, and preferences. It’s a dog’s breakfast of acquiring skills, information, knowledge, savoir faire, and more. The goal of learning shifts from acquiring skills to doing whatever it takes to prosper in one’s evolving ecosystem.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 17, 2010

Today’s rapid changes require very responsive driving skills. They communicated the firm’s goals to the training department, which in turn translated those goals into workshops, learning management systems and so forth. Back then, the past resembled the future closely enough that driving by the rearview mirror was feasible.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 13, 2010

Insufficient sleep retards executive function and working memory, as well as mood, quantitative skill, logical reasoning, and motor dexterity. Many of Medina’s rules impact how well an individual learns. We know for sure that: Exercise boosts brain power. Get your sleep or act stupid.

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