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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com, said that however much hype you’ve heard about the web – the best thing since sliced bread or the printing press or sex or fire – whatever you’ve heard is simply not enough to describe what’s going on. Workers are learners, and learners are workers.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

Now it’s often more effective to take control by giving control, by letting “the invisible hand” self-organize worker learning. The organization establishes the goals and gives the workers flexibility in how to meet them. How workers learn now. Think about a go-getter knowledge worker learns something new. [6]