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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

Here’s a mid-2003 article from an internal newsletter from Deloitte: Social Software: Get Affiliated. Social Software: Get Affiliated. Want to understand the emerging world of social software? While the technology is nothing spectacular, social software is one of the catalysts of the change.

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Favorite 2009 posts on Informal Learning Blog

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I expect attitudes like Internet values to underpin exemplary corporate learning in the future. This morning I received an email asking…”How are people using social software to support learning?” Everybody knows about network effects: the value of a network increases exponentially with the addition of each new node.

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Top 47 Posts and 10 Hot Topics for February

eLearning Learning Posts

How to effectively architect information for your elearning course - Free as in Freedom , February 6, 2010 As Instructional Designers, its always a challenge to balance meaningful instruction with information. It’s a good reminder of the level of effort that is required to make online learning effective and valuable for our students!

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Person-to-person instruction is no longer cost-effective. Training departments are mired in Industrial Age, top-down attitudes, and that’s not playing well with Network Era, customer-focused workers. Studies) Most corporate training is an example of the “Streetlight Effect.”. Where Corporate Learning Came From.