Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Before the web, we had EDI (electronic data interchange) and EFT (electronic funds transfer). Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. A big part of the sales pitch for early versions of web-supported learning was the elimination of costly trainers. e + learning.

eLearning 36

eLearning Firewalls Masie IBM 36

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 1, 2008

Before the web, we had EDI (electronic data interchange) and EFT (electronic funds transfer). Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. A big part of the sales pitch for early versions of web-supported learning was the elimination of costly trainers. e + learning.

Metrics 36

Metrics eLearning Internet Firewalls 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Before the web, we had EDI (electronic data interchange) and EFT (electronic funds transfer). Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. A big part of the sales pitch for early versions of web-supported learning was the elimination of costly trainers. e + learning.

Metrics 36

Metrics eLearning Attitudes Internet 36

Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

Situating our brains in our heads oversimplifies the situation; our brains are distributed throughout our bodies. So the worker checks Google or SlashDot or other resources on the web to see who’s got books or articles or blogs or case studies on her topic. The hunger for proprietary knowledge does not stop at the firewall.

Informal Learning 98

Informal Learning Informal Blended Learning Authoring Tools 98

Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

Forward-looking companies established corporate universities and tried to become Learning Organizations. In the late 1990s, the web changed everything. eLearning was born. Venture capitalists funded scores of eLearning companies, most of which disappeared in the dot-com crash a few years later.

Corporate eLearning 71

Corporate eLearning Compliance Training Blended Learning Training 71