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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. Before the web, we had EDI (electronic data interchange) and EFT (electronic funds transfer). The meme of learning was replacing training. Training is something trainers push to trainees. I can learn something; you can't learn me something.

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. 2002 Update : I just came upon an article on the web that talks of eLearning in 1997. Before the web, we had EDI (electronic data interchange) and EFT (electronic funds transfer). The meme of learning was replacing training. License.

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. 2002 Update : I just came upon an article on the web that talks of eLearning in 1997. Before the web, we had EDI (electronic data interchange) and EFT (electronic funds transfer). The meme of learning was replacing training. License.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Human resources are more important than natural resources, brains more important than brawn. Training” extends outside the firewall. That’s why the ten essays I excerpted for this post look back at the future from the vantage point of 2002.) The Information Era has arrived. The Machine Age is over. The rules have changed.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

Situating our brains in our heads oversimplifies the situation; our brains are distributed throughout our bodies. The hunger for proprietary knowledge does not stop at the firewall. Snyder, Harvard Business School Press, 2002, ISBN 1578513308. [12] ” Ageless Learner, 2002. Each is whole, unto him or herself.