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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

to filter, combine, merge, adopt new memes, etc). The hunger for proprietary knowledge does not stop at the firewall. Consider Cisco, a company with a staggering thirst for new-product information and detail. He is CEO of eLearning Forum, a 1500-member think tank and advocacy group, and founder of Internet Time Group.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

eLearning was born. Venture capitalists funded scores of eLearning companies, most of which disappeared in the dot-com crash a few years later. Many of the corporations that adopted eLearning fell under the same mistaken spell that beguiled investors. In the late 1990s, the web changed everything.