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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

The 50,000 foot view of what’s going on in social networks and informal learning has changed very little In the last five years. From 2003 : As the pendulum of culture chic swings from the institution to the individual, it’s natural that empowering the common participant is back in vogue. formal | informal.

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Co-creation

Jay Cross

Informal Learning – the other 80%. Thursday, May 08, 2003. informal learning. Co nnectivism, recently coined by George Siemens, makes it explicit that the learner is augmented with connections to networks of people and information. Last year, in an informal history of eLearning , I wrote: Learning isn’t content.