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How to evaluate social and informal learning

Jay Cross

Network analysis. Social network analysis provides another level of sophistication in analyzing network activity. Social network analysis lets us look at groups. Value network analysis could yield economic information that social network analysis fails to cover.

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Summarizing Learn for Yourself

Jay Cross

” While the summary skips over the primary content, fifty ways to learn better and work smarter, it catches the spirit of the book rather well. When I’m deciding whether reading a lengthy article is worth my time, I’ll sometimes dump it in a summarizer to figure out if it’s worthwhile to read further.

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So many thoughts, so little time

Jay Cross

The top posts from sources selected for Informal Learning Flow in the first six months of 2009: Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - OReilly Radar , January 11, 2009. Debunking Social Media Myths - HarvardBusiness.org , June 29, 2009. Ten years after - Informal Learning , January 10, 2009. April 23, 2009.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): The Social Graph.shaping up to be the hot summer song of 08

Mark Oehlert

It is close to social network analysis but is more closely tied to graph theory - hence its language of nodes and vertices. Think of it as the study of people and their connections. From the land of Huh? The Lewin Links This link should take you to the page I have on del.icio.us

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Let's improve our learning language as learning professionals

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

I am currently in the Exploring Social Learning MOOC by Curatr and it is great. There are many interesting articles and videos to explore, including the twitter chats. The MOOC really makes me think more deeply about what I understand by social learning and how I translate it into practice. More sloppiness?

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How to support informal learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Cross is a champion of informal learning, Web 2.0, He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix three decades ago. Quality in eLearning (Bogota), LearnX (Melbourne), and Learning Technology (London).