Jay Cross

JUNE 29, 2013

It is difficult to train for time-intensive exception handling that occurs outside of standard, business-as-usual processes. . " While traditional training programs are important, particularly when dealing with items such as compliance and merger integration, they have several shortcomings.

Environment 45

Environment Compliance Training Predictions Global 45

Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

The corporation’s values, standards and investments define the structure of the ecology within which people are granted the freedom to act.

Learning 2.0 75

Learning 2.0 Informal Learning Informal Cognitive 75

Jay Cross

JULY 11, 2012

It’s early yet, but so far, this course is your standard one-to-many, linear learning experience. From the responses posted in the companion Google Group, I’d say about a thousand people have completed Class #1. If there are other discussions going on, I’m unaware of them. No way this is a MOOC.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2011

How does this fit with existing standards, compliance requirements, and regulatory boundaries? We broke into groups to discuss: What’s the role of the CLO as learning shifts from push to pull? What capabilities does the 21st century training department need? How do we go about shifting from what we already have in place?

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 11, 2009

The thought leaders in the activity streams space are thinking about standards for interoperability, how people can grant access to their feeds selectively, stream searching, de-duping, and security concerns. Marc Canter: Diso Activity Streams Standard. Last week, Google, Facebook, Nokia, Yahoo! Chris Messina: activitystrea.ms.

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Streaming Activities MySpace Friendfeed 36

Jay Cross

MARCH 10, 2010

Most people know that it’s worthwhile to lurk when joining a new community to identify its standards before jumping into the fray. Flames are far fewer than in the old days. Most bloggers no longer feel they must blog every day. One area that noobs fail to understand is that it is not cool to “scrape&# other people’s blogs.

Social Networks 50

Social Networks Social Network Stock Site 50

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Mencken on the aim of American education: “The aim… is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.&#. The Ancient Romans enjoyed a higher standard of living and comfort than did most Americans.&#. Enter trains.

Instructional 36

Instructional Instruction Blended Learning Predictions 36

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Mencken on the aim of American education: “The aim… is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.&#. The Ancient Romans enjoyed a higher standard of living and comfort than did most Americans.&#. Enter trains.

Instructional 36

Instructional Instruction Blended Learning Predictions 36

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 8, 2012

The Stanford profs had conducted a series of standard psychology experiments but substituted a computer for one of the participants. Ten years ago next month, Clifford Nass and Byron Reeves published The Media Equation : How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places.

Specialist 47

Specialist Microsoft IBM Wikipedia 47

Jay Cross

APRIL 5, 2009

They convinced Congress, that in turn pressured the Financial Standards Accounting Board (FASB), that they should not have to report their bad bets if their decline in value is “temporary.&#. Banks don’t have to do that. Who decides whether a bank’s investment decline is temporary?

Portfolio 36

Portfolio Security Score Picture 36

Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2011

Advance the state of the art in customer interactions by developing innovative strategies, models and standards. , Dell, Intuit, and Salesforce.com participate in the Consortium for Service Innovation. This shift in the source of value requires new models, processes and practices.

Oracle 41

Oracle Yahoo PDF Microsoft 41

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

We’re software nerds, change agents, standards developers, experience designers, game developers, and problem solvers. Most of the three dozen people convened by the irrepressible Aaron Silvers for a recent retreat in Sedona, Arizona, would say they’re designers, but not instructional designers.

Cognitive 68

Cognitive Toys Coaching Diversity Training 68

Jay Cross

APRIL 11, 2013

Create standards and benchmarks for eLearning. Assess learning outsourcing options. Create a centralized learning and. development team. These days I favor a decentralized L&D team. Source content both centrally and. Share internal and external best practices. with all teams active in developing, commissioning, or implementing.

Compliance Training 41

Compliance Training Virtual Classroom Low Cost Blended Learning 41

Jay Cross

MARCH 20, 2009

I didn’t run Typealyzer on Jane’s blog because her eLearning pick of the day, while extremely valuable, is not your standard blog-text. My togetherLearn pals are INTJs, scientists. Well, not all. The types Typealyzer picked for me feel close to the mark.

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Write Blog Examples Sample Statistics 36

Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

A participant at our panel session asked how one could make sense of the diverse mobile technologies, user populations, toolsets, standards, apps, and devices. SoLoMo business requires SoLoMo learning. I suggested the starting point is not the technology, but what can improve the business.

Diversity Training 67

Diversity Training Performance Support eLearning Guild Write Blog 67

Jay Cross

JULY 14, 2008

past, present, and future along the dimensions of connecivity, interfaces, relationships, services, content, and standards. to try out Future Exploration Network’s Strategy Tools. We looked at Yahoo! began as a recommender of links and became a portal which seemed to offer anything that moves.

Media 36

Media Yahoo Portal Stock 36

Jay Cross

JANUARY 7, 2013

It truly is a wonderful introduction to the power of the web and what we as a community can do when we free our content from the shackles of proprietary tooling and embrace the standards of the web and open formats. Don’t miss this.” ” .

Social Media 48

Social Media Organizational Learning Community Guide 48

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

whether GAAP standards are still valid in a world where most value is intangible, i.e. off the books. Some of the issues on the table: how CFOs evaluate and measure soft-skill areas such as training and development. why investment in people is a short-term expense rather than a capital investment.

eLearning Guild 36

eLearning Guild Liability Evalution Corporate eLearning 36

Jay Cross

MAY 11, 2008

.&# Corporate eLearning: Feeding Hungry Minds. eLearning: The birth of a vibrant industry , 7/2000 (Goldman Sachs) “Why corporate eLearning?

Corporate eLearning 36

Corporate eLearning Sun Knowledge Worker Trust 36

Jay Cross

MARCH 18, 2008

Don’t tell anybody, because some people see me as a champion of this stuff, but the standard formats for reading RSS feeds bore me silly. Bloglines drove me nuts: you couldn’t even change the garish colors. Google Reader is the best I’ve found but even that becomes monotonous. So I rotate feed readers.

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iPod RSS Podcasts Podcaster 36

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Promoting standards for interoperability. Cultivators of learning environments can borrow from network engineers, focusing on such things as: • Improving signal-to-noise ratio. Installing fat pipes for backbone connections. Pruning worthless, unproductive branches. Balancing the load. Seeking continuous improvement.

Social Networks 68

Social Networks Network Social Network Wiki 68

Jay Cross

AUGUST 12, 2012

Today, a course is a standard unit of measure of learning. Over time, it morphed into meaning the circuit that was being run on, as in racecourse. In the fourteen century, academics started using the term to mean a planned series of study. Vendors sell training by the course. Students complete certain courses to earn a degree.

Games 66

Games Course Player Webcast 66

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Let’s hold formal learning to the same standard. Their performance proves that such learning is effective. Similarly, performance on the job is the appropriate measure of informal and social workplace learning.

Metrics 44

Metrics Journal Classes Teach 44

Jay Cross

JULY 6, 2012

Following his standard routine, he invited the village elders for a walk in another village. Civic responsibility fades away. Reckless driving ensues. People get hurt. Monderman was asked to design a bike path for a village. 2,500 children a day would ride on the path. There they saw a road with no speed bumps and no chicanes.

Trust 56

Trust Social Networks Engineering Photoshop 56

Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2010

The standard treatment for people with atrial fibrillation is warfarin, a powerful 60-year-old drug that originated as a rat poison. If you’re looking for my thoughts on working smarter, informal business, and accelerating time-to-performance, go to the Informal Learning blog.

Association 44

Association Site Brain Tagging 44

Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2012

Wise organizations develop platforms with standard interfaces to maintain ?exibility Collaborative organizations outpace hierarchies when the future is unpredictable and change is rampant. The objective in a dynamic situation is to get better at whatever comes along. exibility and spark innovation.

Collaborative Learning 61

Collaborative Learning Collaboration Compliance Training Social Networks 61

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

Government “the gold standard,&# even though Nixon took the gold out of the picture in the early 70s. The continuing “solution&# is to give the Executive Branch a book of blank checks for “correcting&# future screw-ups. We still call IOUs issued by the U.S. The world financial system is built on faith.

Reputation 36

Reputation Score Picture Budget 36

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

When I attended HBS, my Myers-Briggs score put me two standard deviations away from the norm toward introversion. If a student talks often and forcefully, then he’s a player; if he doesn’t he’s on the margins.” ” Cain is absolutely correct. I should know. I never volunteered to speak. I rarely said anything.

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 46

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Scanning HTML Apple 46

Jay Cross

APRIL 4, 2015

Homeostasis — central tendency, self-correction, standard deviation. Live with intention. Think out of the box. Do what I love. Do it with gusto. Maintain balance. Don’t obsess. Seek patterns. Pareto’s law: 20% of the resources yield 80% of the results. Self-organization. Organize by product or area or function.

Brain 36

Brain Pattern Policies Problem 36

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Experiential learning is the gold standard. Being ejected from one’s comfort zone is why some say that the only thing worse than learning from experience is not learning from experience. Stretch assignments. Those were the two most importance sentences in this mass of verbiage.

Social Networks 56

Social Networks Blended Learning Forum Performance Support 56

Jay Cross

JANUARY 22, 2009

The thought leaders in the activity streams space are thinking about standards for interoperability, how people can grant access to their feeds selectively, stream searching, de-duping, and security concerns. Few people have time to traipse around looking into all the nooks and crannies where a netizen or company is streaming content.

Social Networks 36

Social Networks Streaming Wiki Social Media 36

Jay Cross

MAY 23, 2008

Nonetheless, on a standard Blog, the new pushes the old off the bottom of the page, out of sight, and out of mind, regardless of value. I post to Internet Time Blog almost daily, and I hope my words retain more value than yesterday’s newspaper. After all, the Blog is where I share my discoveries and interpretations, not perishable news.

Groupware 38

Groupware Social Networks Wiki Wink 38

Jay Cross

MARCH 18, 2008

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Internet 36

Internet Blogging RSS Format 36

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

This afternoon the rains stopped long enough for me to take my standard 25-minute walk through the North Berkeley neighborhood. It had not occurred to me when I bought it, but should I simply use the new Canon for both video and stills? I took the videocam along to take stills, for example: Our humble house.

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Camera Tagging Standards Quality 36

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

This afternoon the rains stopped long enough for me to take my standard 25-minute walk through the North Berkeley neighborhood. It had not occurred to me when I bought it, but should I simply use the new Canon for both video and stills? I took the videocam along to take stills, for example: Our humble house.

Camera 36

Camera Tagging Standards Quality 36

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 10, 2007

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Internet 36

Internet Blogging Roles Standards 36

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 10, 2007

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