Jay Cross

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Where organic, bottom-up meets corporate top-down. An article entitled Why Organizations Don’t Learn by Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats in the November 2015 issue of Harvard Business Review caught my eye. The resemblance of their suggestions and the content of Real Learning is uncanny. Both the article and Real Learning highlight: Destigmatize making mistakes (they are opportunities to learn). Embrace and teach a growth mindset. Avoid attribution bias. Don’t work to exhaustion.

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Jay Cross

JULY 27, 2015

Explicit Knowledge. #1 1 is explicit knowledge. By definition, explicit knowledge can be captured in words. It’s the facts. Answers on Jeopardy. Tree/false tests. Retention of explicit knowledge is easily measured and graded and for that reason it’s where tests focus, over-simplified or not. We grade recent recall, but people have forgotten 90% of what they learned before they have the opportunity to apply it.

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Jay Cross

MAY 31, 2015

At a Stanford education conference this morning, speakers made presentation after presentation without once involving the audience, not even asking for questions. For the first couple of hours there was zero audience participation. Finally, following a panel session, we were invited to stand at a microphone if we had questions. Naturally, I was first in line. I explained that I came to this event as an outsider. I am not an academic. In fact, my corporate title is “Chief Unlearning Officer.”

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 22, 2015

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” ” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance. While cleaning up my office this afternoon, I came up this list of essentials for effective informal learning I wrote a couple of years ago for the ASTD Handbook. I don’t know if I’m in a rut or simply unwavering in my beliefs, but I was surprised to find that every one of these appears in nearly the same language in my new book. (I’d

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Jay Cross

JULY 22, 2015

My new book, Aha!, is for all those people we’ve made responsible for their own learning. This is the missing manual. explains self-assessment, setting goals, dealing with feeds and flows, improving retention, curation, working out loud, social learning, and more. Each technique is backed with a practical exercise. reveals how to: Learn from experience. Take advantage of the latest findings from neuroscience. Save time by accelerating how you learn. Remember things faster, better, deeper.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Quickly, now, “What word or words pop into your head if I say Learning ?” ” This was the barrier that kept me from starting the Real Learning Revolution a few nights back. The L-word. Schools brainwashed us so thoroughly that everyone’s immediate association is learning = schooling.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2015

I’ve been depressed. Telling you this will blow my chances of running for president, but what the hell: I have been clinically depressed for the last two years. It’s a form of going crazy. I lost interest in my work, stopped blogging and taking photos. I became a near-hermit. . I want to share my experiences with you so that if the black dog visits you or one of your friends, you’ll recognize it for what it is and take appropriate action.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 24, 2015

How to learn socially, experientially, and informally. Learn how to learn. Real Learning in Pictures (illustrations from the book). Coherent Organization Collaboration Real Learning

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 27, 2015

It’s time once again to contribute to Jane Hart’s annual survey of tools for learning. I was the first person to take part in this project some nine years ago and now it’s an annual ritual. It’s enlightening to review what’s best in the toolbox. My top tools for learning are: Experience. Extracting the lessons of simply living my life. Friends. My colleagues in Internet Time Alliance and colleagues. Books.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Leave Learning to Employees. By Kate Everson. CLO magazine November 2015. This article describes the CLO of Kaplan as he adapts to a world where employees can route around learning to find their own content. They don’t need him any more. Learner-created content presents a challenge to CLOs: they want to control it. EasyGenerator CEO Kasper Spiro points out that you can’t. Learner-created content is out of control by definition.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Setting goals, reflecting daily, taking risks, and doing experiments prime the brain for spotting opportunities and working smarter. Real Learning. Real Learning

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 19, 2015

These are graphics from the. current edition of Real Learning. The Real Learning Project. The Real Learning Book. Buy Real Learning for $2.99. Real Learning

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Excerpt from interview with Learnnovators. Learnnovators: We are excited about having reviewed your new book Real Learning. We couldn’t agree more with Laura Overton (Founder & CEO, Towards Maturity) that this is a manual to empower self-directed learners in really practical ways. Could you give our readers a brief on your book that is also a part of a larger part of your Real Learning project please? Jay: I’d be delighted.

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Jay Cross

JULY 29, 2015

The conference business is booming yet every participant has some major gripe about the way conferences are run. We all think we know better. It goes with the territory. In the beginning of the year, I looked into the future of conferences. Would they go the way of record stores and newspapers? I concluded that: Flipping conference presentations can vastly improve learning outcomes. Community First! Events should focus on nurturing the L&D community of practice before content.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 25, 2015

Fascinating data. WHAT KEEPS WORKERS FROM LEARNING ONLINE? 63% lack of time for self-study. 40% can’t find what they need. 41% find current online learning not relevant to their need. 28% lack of somewhere appropriate to study. 26% find learning content uninspiring. 25% technology issues such as low bandwidth. 22% learning objectives are not clear.

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Jay Cross

MAY 8, 2014

The American Society for Training and Development has ceased to exist. Now it’s the Association for Talent Development. I have mixed feelings about this. Tony Bingham announces name change in Washington, May 6, 2014. This is hardly the first time this professional association has taken on a new name. In 1947, it came to life as the American Society of Training Directors.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ” –George Bernard Shaw. is becoming Real Learning. The old name didn’t fit the book. captures the spirit of “Oh, I see; that’s how you do it.” ” Cool. Unfortunately, the term Aha! only focuses only on the magic moment of enlightenment.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 11, 2014

In his keynote presentation at Online Educa Berlin last week, Howard Rheingold emphasized co-learning. Since the teacher learns more than the student, let’s all be both teachers and students. Esteemed co-learners, your job is to create new co-learning communities. If a group doesn’t exist for facilitate your informal learning, make one. Peeragogy is a set of techniques for collaborative learning and work. It’s a both a discipline and a living book.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

Years ago a start-up commissioned me to write a white paper that would help put them on the map. I wrote the paper that follows. It’s probably the most popular thing I’ve ever written. The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. I think it’s held up rather well. I’ll be leading a series of master classes on informal learning and working smarter in Europe. Informal Learning – the other 80%. Execution is the goal.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 4, 2015

These are my core beliefs about how to get along in the world. I wrote this post fourteen years ago and rediscovered it this morning. I’m amazed at the consistency of what I believe. I still hold to these, although now they’d be supplemented with newfound knowledge about complexity, mindfulness, informal learning, community, social media, and other topics. Here’s how I saw it in 2001: PEOPLE. Perception is reality. See The User Illusion ). Placebos work. Hawthorne effect.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2015

Enterprise Learning takes learning beyond the training department into the overall extended enterprise, the “Workscape.” ” It’s a breakout that’s happening throughout organizations as they embrace digital technology.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2015

Today I paid my $9.99 and started devouring free books on Amazon Kindle Unlimited. I spend on average of $40 a month on hardcopy books, so this seems like a steal. Since I’m in the midst of writing a book on solo/DIY learning, I thought I might learn something from these freebies: 45 Elearning Tips and Tricks , by John Araiza. This is an instructional designer’s record of twelve years’ experience. Advice is for building courses. Don’t buy photos until you get final approval.” “Use

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Jay Cross

APRIL 4, 2015

Sorry, off the point, but I just love this. Ukulele Anthem by Amanda Palmer. Just Jay

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Jay Cross

APRIL 11, 2013

I wrote this post in Thursday, December 08, 2005, but I’m reposting it here because some people still have not got the message. Normally, I would not expect to get many chuckles from a 186-page report entitled Learning styles and pedagogy post-16 learning A systematic and critical review , 2004, by Frank Coffield, Institute of Education, University of London; David Moseley, University of Newcastle; Elaine Hall, University of Newcastle; Kathryn Ecclestone, University of Exeter.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10. part 1 of 5. People learn their jobs by doing their jobs. Effective managers make stretch. assignments and coach their team members. Experience is the teacher, and managers shape those experiences. These posts offer guidance to managers who want to make learning from experience and conversation more effective.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 8, 2015

72% of eighteen Fortune 100 CLOs told me their people are not growing fast enough to keep up with the needs of the business. . Granted, it’s impossible to predict the future needs of the business in this volatile world, it’s still troubling that most big-company CLOs don’t feel what they’re doing is adequate to prepare the workforce for the future. That’s the job, right? If what you’re doing isn’t working, you need to do something else.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 27, 2015

Informal Learning is available via Google Books. Read a couple of chapters for free. Informal Learning Just Jay

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 9, 2015

On its inaugural voyage in 1952, the sleek S.S. United States set the record for an Atlantic crossing (3 1/2 days) and more than sixty years later, the record still stands. The United States was the Concorde of its day: high tech, expensive, and luxurious, the fastest way across the ocean. Made of lightweight aluminum with R&D funded by the Department of Defense (since the United States could be converted into the world’s fastest troop ship.).

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Jay Cross

MARCH 25, 2014

Capturing L&D metrics too often entails asking the wrong people the wrong questions at the wrong time. Line leaders are a CLO’s most important customers. They judge the trade-offs in spending that determine L&D’s fate in the budget process. They base their decisions on what training professionals call Level 4: Did the training impact the bottom line? Did it matter? By and large, line leaders are not happy with L&D’s performance.

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Jay Cross

MAY 26, 2015

Your Workscape is everything in your organization except the training department. It’s where work is done and where people hone the skills they need to add value. It’s the biggest frame of the big picture. It’s relationships and culture and secret sauce. It’s the organization as organism. To prosper, you need to nurture it, plant seeds, pamper the ground. It’s your job to help the system thrive. Learning Ecosystem, Learning Ecology, and Learnscape mean the same thing as Workscape.

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