Jay Cross

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Dated best practices

Jay Cross

Migrate from physical to virtual classrooms. Low-cost flight simulators? Create a “knowledge. assembly line” of high-impact presentations by subject-matter. If talking heads are your thing. to extend reach and reduce cost. When appropriate. content-selection practices that meet requirements for deployment. generic-content vendors.

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Go straight to the finish line

Jay Cross

The virtual classroom and blended learning were also less prevalent in reported practice than anticipated. Today, there is little evidence of collaborative and user-centered approaches in corporate and government settings , though there are suggestions of influence to come in the future. Old favorites dominated in our study.

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Learning = getting the job done

Jay Cross

Tens of thousands of university students have earned undergraduate and graduate degrees without routinely setting foot in bricks-and-mortar classrooms.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

After all, they already have discussion boards and virtual classrooms and videoconference gear. When I’ve pointed this out in presentations at conferences, members of the audience ask what they can do to improve informal learning. I tell them they need to go beyond dumb technology.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

People at the big events are talking about informal learning, social learning, simulations, webinars, mobile, virtual classrooms, community, interactivity, and web 2.0. Training is not the same as learning. ASTD measures only formal training, the workshops, classes, and assignments meted out by training departments.