Jay Cross

JUNE 13, 2012

Next month I’ll be offering an experiential workshop on Informal Learning through Jane Hart’s Social Learning Center. Form an on-going community of practice. By the close of the workshop, you will be able to… understand what informal learning is, how it works, why it’s important. with Jay Cross.

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Honeywell has developed a prototype helmet that monitors brain states associated with distraction and information overload. Book Your BrainyBot™ Discovery Session with Margie. Samsung is developing a device to enable people to operate a computer through brain signals. The Internet of Everything Is Us.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 17, 2017

If your New Year’s Resolution is to read more books, you’ve found the right post. This is a compilation and update of my previous book list and review posts. Design For How People Learn by Julie Dirksen is one of my favorite books in the field. Read my full review about this practical book.

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Matrix

AUGUST 7, 2018

Without ruling out traditional L&D practices, informal learning should find its way into today’s workplace. Read more: The truth about informal learning: it happens all the time, anywhere. 8 practices to facilitate informal learning. First of all, it is very cost effective. Employee set-up CoPs. All in all.

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Instancy

MARCH 9, 2023

Creating Communities of Practice Instancy’s social learning tools help learners to create communities of practice based on their interests. Each learning community may have its own unique site containing a content library, discussion forums, wiki knowledge base, polls, and more.

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Web Courseworks

AUGUST 24, 2017

National associations or “communities of practice” have been in the business of content curation for many years: publishing journals, books containing the community’s body of knowledge, and face to face educational sessions. I call this: making the informal digital learning nuggets formal.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/28/2010 The most updated and informative e-Learning community on Twitter On Twitter exists a resourceful community of e-Learning professionals. The honor is mine! Among great company.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

An instructional designer by profession who started her career anlayzing learner needs, creating micro-design documents, writing story-boards and discussing the nitty-gritty of course navigation with visual designers, I have long been interested in the power of social, collaborative and informal learning. Rangaswami , Venkatesh Rao , et al.

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Web Courseworks

MAY 18, 2016

In his recent book Improving Professional Learning: Twelve Strategies to Enhance Performance , Knox offers a distillation of what he has learned over the course of his long and distinguished career. As could probably be deduced from its subtitle, Improving Professional Learning is first and foremost an immediately practical book.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

Communicate clearly and often – Do not assume that in this age of email, cell phones, text messaging, and Web conferencing, people are getting the information they need. In a learning culture, people are continually sharing needed information with the people who need to know. In some cases, a few minutes will do.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Two books I have recently read influence my thoughts in this post. These are The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here by Dr. Lynda Gratton (a book review coming up soon), and The Second Machine Age by Andrew Mcafee and Erik Brynjolfsson. Most of us do a retrospection of the year gone by, and a future-spection of the year to come.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

One of the items that led to lower trade publication subscription rates is that a lot of information that use to be found only in the trade publication can now be found all over the Internet with no cost to the person who needs to learn the information or become part of a community of practice.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

Dirty Words: Training, Learner, eLearning, Informal, Social, School, Learning What is the role of L&D specialists in working smarter? Companies are outsourcing their course development so internal L&D can focus on communicating and connecting. Becoming CURATORS of information – tagging, editing. Clark says yes.

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Hurix Digital

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Further, its influence spreads far beyond mere communication; it can help shape our perception of information, influence cultural identity, and can also serve as a canvas for creative expression across the world. Typography in the Pursuit of Knowledge Communication design and typography are practice-based disciplines.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The other day I caught up with Catherine Lombardozzi who is the principle behind the firm called Learning4Learning Professionals and author of a brand new book. And she has recently penned a new book. Kapp: You’ve got a great new book out, can you tell me why you decided to write this book? Or from Amazon.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I’ve since started writing chapter summaries (here is the last article ) so people can “preview” some of the great books out there and hopefully end up reading them! For the full text, here’s a Springer Link , which is free with subscription, or you can purchase the chapter or book.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay’s calling is to create happier, more productive workplaces. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay’s calling is to create happier, more productive workplaces. Jay has keynoted conferences in the U.S.,

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2010

Image via Wikipedia "Collaboration is a process through which people who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for the solution that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible." ~ Anecdote And informal learning is hinged on collaboration.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I have been busy writing a new book, and the last month has involved a lot of research and writing, completing, editing and polishing of my manuscript for final submission later this month. It's a book I was commissioned to write for Kogan Page, and will be aimed at the learning and development (L and D) sector. Unported License.

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eLearning Brothers

MAY 22, 2017

They do this mainly by providing information in the form of research, webinars, conferences, and even educational programs online, on demand and face-to-face. Customizable Library (2 e-books/yr): Access to books authored by respected leaders in training and development that will help you advance within your profession.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Informal Learning begins with these words: “THIS IS A BOOK about knowledge workers, twenty-first-century business, and informal learning. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning. Most teaming about how to do a job is informal. “Training&# ? Is that okay?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Seven). Information flows freely throughout the organization. Leaders of work units don’t hesitate to communicate with one another, and they provide assistance and peer coaching as needed.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Content apps – using a software application on a mobile device to provide information and instruction on-the-job, just-in-time. Community of practice – people who share the same interests or responsibilities in an organization come together to learn from each other. I’m sure you can think of more ways to lever learning.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay’s calling is to create happier, more productive workplaces. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay’s calling is to create happier, more productive workplaces. Jay has keynoted conferences in the U.S.,

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

MIT professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland, often called the father of social physics, defines social physics in his 2015 book, “Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter,” as “a quantitative social science that describes reliable, mathematical connections between information and idea flow on the one hand and people’s behavior on the other.”

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Web Courseworks

MARCH 22, 2010

When it comes to eLearning, the Guild is a trusted source of information, networking and a true community of practice. Will Thalheimer and his session, Improving Systems Training by Adding Informal Learning to the Blend. Clark Quinn is one of the most important instructional designer/thinkers in our eLearning community.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Seven). Information flows freely throughout the organization. Leaders of work units don’t hesitate to communicate with one another, and they provide assistance and peer coaching as needed.

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Nick Leffler

JANUARY 27, 2016

One of the most recent examples I can think of is the ports on the Mac Book, simplified down to one. Communities of Practice Need Some Practice. The changes they make to their products which are truly innovative and new are simple and relatively small. You might also enjoy: Idea Management and Design – You Mean PKM?

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E-learning Uncovered

JANUARY 20, 2014

The e-learning industry has so many outlets for information and growth opportunity. Although the Lectora forum and the Captivate forum do not have quite as many contributors, you will find quality information on each of these, too. eLearningGuild.com : Serves as a global community for designers, developers, and managers of e-learning.

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Matrix

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Participants react better to something that comes from a person rather than a book or scholar article. The modern employee has very limited time and wants to get the information only when it is needed. Communities of practice are excellent learning venues. SMEs can help sort out difficult challenges.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 10, 2010

Among our recommendations were: Informal Live webcasts. Informal Recorded webinars. Informal Video conferencing. Informal Workshops. Informal Audio/ podcasts. Informal Learnshop. Informal Case Studies. Informal Non-formal video.

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Leo Learning

OCTOBER 23, 2019

It is fair to say that early learning management systems, largely associated with eLearning delivery and event booking, were often more top-down and business-focused than solutions aimed at solving learners’ real needs. Xerox: Communities of Practice. What about the emergent systems that delivered digital learning?

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Support communities of practice around domains. Institute of Technology: Information shared with a heavily modified version of Sharepoint. Institute of Technology: Information shared with a heavily modified version of Sharepoint. Integrates JIT learning from their Books 24X7 site. hours finding information vs. 5.4

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Even a tool such as a book, when read by a solo reader, socially mediates learning. Another theory derived from social constructivism has been proposed by Lave and Wenger (1991) who argue that the formation of communities of practice can explain much of the informal learning that occurs for example in the workplace.

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PDG

JULY 17, 2019

We learned leadership informally, through participation in sports teams, youth organizations, or community groups. Actually, I find people are very inspired by these books, and are excited to put these ideas into practice. by Rich Mesch. Many of us have been in “Leadership Training” since we were very young.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

Technology —is great for exchange of information, updates and other transactional stuff. Working from home offers me plenty of solitude but not the intellectual stimulation and those over-the-shoulder conversations so crucial to serendipity, ambient awareness, and informal learning. But not so great for building bonds and trust.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

I read the book Brein@work van Ria van Dinteren en Nina Lazeron. They interviewed various scientists and are translating new insights from brain science into practical consequences for organising effective learning situations. An example: sleep is very important for processing new information and new stimuli.

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