Jay Cross

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The culture of social learning

Jay Cross

Understanding Corporate Twitter , a post from an employee of EMC, got me thinking about the role of corporate culture in implementing the social learning platforms I’ve been calling learnscapes. Shouldn’t that be at the heart of any corporate social media strategy?

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Training departments: wake up, smell coffee

Jay Cross

The study revealed that Social Business is increasingly perceived as a strategic executive imperative in the enterprise, with 78 percent of the executives surveyed admitting that having a social strategy is critical to the future success of their businesses.&#. Conversations are the stem cells of business learning.

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Top Ten Tools

Jay Cross

In addition to implementing social learning systems for universities and corporations, she leads workshops on social learning and somehow finds time to maintain the most useful learning site on the net, the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Disclaimer: Jane is a member of togetherLearn.

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Headlines are not reality

Jay Cross

None of these things have anything to do with informal learning. In fact, most of them are antithetical to informal and social learning. The organizations we respect are delivering less training while facilitating more learning. This same vendor once called to tell me that the organization had a new strategy.

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LearnTrends 2009

Jay Cross

We aim to explore how to corral the loose pieces of learning technology, both on the web and off, in order to come up with a unified, targeted strategy for moving forward. These people… …will be addressing these topics: Convergence in Learning. Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations.

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Best books

Jay Cross

We call this phenomenon the new culture of learning, and it is grounded in a very simple question: What happens to learning when we move from the stable infrastructure of the twentieth century to the fluid infrastructure of the twenty-first century, where technology is constantly creating and responding to change?”.

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How to Replace Top-down Training with Collaborative Learning (2)

Jay Cross

Beyond that, learning with one another forges of trust and goodwill. Co-learning – adapting to the future – with customers is an unexploited marketing strategy. Who should control learning? A survey last year asked managers how they learned their jobs. Help your customers become better at serving their own needs.