Jay Cross

MAY 30, 2009

That first round of e-learning largely failed for precisely this reason. You can’t remove the humans from learning. Companies should embrace network-supported informal learning because it works better, not because it reduces labor costs. New communities have different requirements than old.

Technology 38

Technology Wiki Metrics CLO 38

eLearning Learning Posts

JANUARY 3, 2011

Take This LMS and Shove It - Living in Learning , May 19, 2010. Workscape evolution - Informal Learning , May 7, 2010. Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning , April 22, 2010. The problem with E-learning games - Stoatly Different , February 5, 2010. Explore Bloom’s Taxonomy Using this Interactive Resource!

Blended Learning 105

Blended Learning Instructional Design Corporate eLearning eLearning Strategy 105

The Learning Circuits

MAY 26, 2006

I saw this discussion as an opportunity to review some of our classic pedagogic strategies and made the following reply, highlighting some points about formal and informal learning as well as CoPs: I see this exercise as a first phase of creative thinking, and this for three reasons. Unfortunately, that still rarely happens.

Strategy 40

Strategy Social Networks Case Study Social Network 40

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

There is quite a network that is participating in the launch - from people who are close friends and trusted colleagues, to interesting people I try and follow. Shawn Callahan of Anecdote covers collaboration and communities of practice. The best part of this is this is not just about my content. I’m not alone.

Network 100

Network Community Social Networks Social Network Analysis 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The term topic hub was not something that I was familiar with until John Tropea used it to describe the content communities eLearning Learning , Mobile Learning , Informal Learning Flow , Communities and Networks Connection that we've been launching.

Network 100

Network Community Communities of Practice Reputation 100

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Jane Hart and I keynoted “Learning Day” for senior training managers of the European Commission. The sixteenth-century guild halls that line Brussels’ Grand Place (AKA Grote Markt) are a reminder of the ancient communities of practice where craftsmen learned their trade through apprenticeship and curated their professional know-how.

Internet 57

Internet Social Media Communities of Practice Cognitive 57

eLearning Learning Posts

JUNE 9, 2010

Workscape evolution - Informal Learning , May 7, 2010 This morning Jane Hart posted this 5-stage model of the evolution of workplace learning in an organization. I’ve re-worked the model to show: my domain is the workscape (the merger of work and learning, the learning ecosystem). Not even close.

eLearning Strategy 89

eLearning Strategy Corporate eLearning Authoring Tools eLearning 89

Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2009

At the same time, we are shifting into an era in which knowledge work and learning occur where re-engineered business processes collide with a participative and interactive ecology of information flows. In a business culture that is skeptical of nonnumerical reasoning, ROI implies disciplined, mathematical rigor.

ROI 66

ROI Social Networks Network Authoring Tools 66

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 12, 2010

by Robert Morris, Dallas Business Commentary Examiner. Cross is a champion of informal learning, Web 2.0, His calling is to help business people improve their performance on the job and satisfaction in life. They are currently refining informal/web 2.0 learning management approaches that accelerate performance.

Informal Learning 73

Informal Learning Performance Support Informal Support 73

Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. I’ll be leading a series of master classes on informal learning and working smarter in Europe. Informal Learning – the other 80%. Because organizations are oblivious to informal learning, they fail to invest in it.

Informal Learning 98

Informal Learning Informal Blended Learning Authoring Tools 98

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 1, 2009

The ability to engage with senior (and not-so-senior) line managers to identify the root cause of performance problems, and not simply focus on learning. the ability to ‘speak business’. An understanding of business goals is the ‘so what’ in learning. New communities have different requirements than old.

Skills 40

Skills Wiki LearnTrends Attitudes 40

Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

What worked twenty years ago doesn’t work well in the social, always-on, networked world of business we now inhabit. Service industries challenge workers to acquire tacit knowledge — the kind of know-how one learns on the job, not in the classroom. Drucker wrote The Practice of Management. Bureaucracies mushroomed.

Corporate eLearning 71

Corporate eLearning Compliance Training Blended Learning Training 71