Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Time Is Money

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

At the end of the last century, Sun Microsystems was a high-flier in the workstation business. Sun was bringing 120 new salespeople a month to a one-week immersion course in Santa Clara. The new hires went through briefings on equipment, applications, competition, Sun, and more. Here’s an example. asked Jerry.

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No Child Left

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

An opinion piece by the New York Sun’s Andrew Wolf writes : It is not only the foundations that Ms. Seeing the lack of results of No Child Left Behind, Ravitch summoned the courage to admit that she was wrong. Big foundations, accountable to no one, have pushed one failure after another.

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Why you should embrace open source

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

In Weapons of Mass Instruction , John Taylor Gatto writes: Open-source learning accepts that everything under the sun might be possible a starting point on the road to self-mastery and a good life… And everyone you encounter is a potential teacher. . * Creating markets. Making ethical, moral, and political statements.

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Jay’s new book on learning metrics

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Maybe it was sun spots. How can you say that training caused the. Maybe it was a new bonus system that. went into effect at the same time. products were better than the competition’s. Once again, it’s a. judgment call, most likely the judgment of the. person with authority to write checks to fund. Speed matters. Getting a quick solution is.

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Get Out of the Training Business

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Clock watching replaced working to the rhythm of the sun. This is akin to when the Industrial Revolution overwhelmed the agrarian age. During that time, people moved from farms to cities. Repetitive, mindless factory labor replaced working holistically with nature. Taking orders replaced thinking for one’s self.

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Giving up control

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

These tools really are something new under the sun, and it wasn’t initially clear if people would use them maturely, and for productive purposes. They seem quite concerned about what will happen when they give demonstrably powerful tools to their most important assets. Andy McAfee last year at DevLearn in San Jose.