Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay’s calling is to create happier, more productive workplaces.

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ID Reflections

APRIL 22, 2010

What does Agile have to do with Informal Learning and Instructional Design? Agile means the willingness to be in a perpetual state of Beta, accepting that there is no closure, can be no closure with information, requirements, needs, business opportunities changing at lightning speed. It's all about the mindset.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 19, 2015

She blogs at www.sahanac.com on topics related to the future of work, the shifting digital trends, and their deep impact on how we will work, learn and live in the future. Her writings and articles have been published in papers like The Business Standard, Inside Learning Technologies Magazine, U.K., and others.

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Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Working out loud has been steadily gaining popularity and has become a topic of conversation on many forums including the Facebook community of the same name. The 9:00 am to 5:00 pm notion of work is all but vanishing, at least for the knowledge workers. Disruptive business models are upending traditional org structures.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2013

While we in the learning organization may find ourselves asked to build programs and curricula to develop deep skills in various topics, we know there are already plenty of experts floating around with far more skills than we already have. What is your role in this new world of expert-to-expert learning?

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

2) Do you think that learning needs to be designed to solve every business or job problem? 2) Do you think that learning needs to be designed to solve every business or job problem? When in fact, by doing this, they are simply formalizing informal learning. It is still a formal learning intervention.

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ID Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2015

I would say that a platform that facilitates easy and seamless interaction, forming of groups and threads, a powerful search mechanism and a way to aggregate conversations across topics (#) would be ideal for working out loud effectively. Why should I work out loud when my immediate team sits right next to me?

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Learnnovators

JUNE 13, 2015

“ Learning and teaching are not symmetrical. They are not the flip sides of the same coin, in spite of the fact that almost all papers and conversations on education assume they are. This, clubbed with the need for creative thinking to solve our business problems of today, is making us re-think the role of learning at workplaces.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. They learn about twice as much from those conversations compared to structured courses and programs. Social software facilitates conversation. It’s about making the business better.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Instead, we will call this "self-directed learning" and will do our best to support the workforce to learn it on their own with minimal guidance and support. But the reality was more than that as I explored in posts like Business of Learning and Models for Learning Questions. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 27, 2008

This is a group that learns from nano-nuggets. The magic of Sun’s approach is that it accelerates informal learning. Performance is what matters, not how you learned to perform. Throughout the CLO Symposium, people grappled with ways to explain the value of learning to business leaders. Check this out.).

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eLearning Learning Posts

APRIL 6, 2010

The Great ADDIE Debate - Learnlets , March 27, 2010 At the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions conference this week, Jean Marripodi convinced Steve Acheson and myself to host a debate on the viability of ADDIE in her ID Zone. How to facilitate synchronous learning for real and virtual learners using technology? Social Media (55).

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Jay Cross

JUNE 2, 2013

Two days of the trip were paid work: One day I keynoted the Learning Innovations and Quality Conference and participated in the launch of the International Council for Open Research and Education ( ICORE ) in Rome. On another day I led a masterclass in informal learning and 702010 for a high-tech company and its customers in Utrecht.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

When information abounds, peers take over. In a knowledge era, workers are the means of production. Knowledge workers do their best when challenged to figure things out for themselves. Think of learning as a partnership with learners, not “delivery.”. To prosper in this world, forget command and control.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Top 100 Tools for Learning: The Final List , Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day , November 16, 2009. Learning for the 21st Century - Informal Learning , December 17, 2008. LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009. The Juiciest Learning Professionals on Twitter?

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eLearning Learning Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2010

If you’re like me, you’ve probably been busy, as well. and The ILE and the FLE in harmony , I advocate the development of a virtual Informal Learning Environment (ILE) to work in tandem with the Formal Learning Environment (FLE) to support both the learning process and its administration. Informal learning.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

- Dont Waste Your Time , April 8, 2010 I was not privileged enough to be able to attend this years eLearning Conference at the University of Plymouth, but have been following some of the conversations and sessions on Twitter thanks to the #pelc10 hashtag. It captures my current thinking about informal learning.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Charles has deep experience in both the business and learning practitioner sides of performance improvement and effective learning solutions. Charles: We now know that people learn more about their work informally than they do formally. So we are seeing increasing interest in social and informal learning.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Charles has deep experience in both the business and learning practitioner sides of performance improvement and effective learning solutions. Charles: We now know that people learn more about their work informally than they do formally. So we are seeing increasing interest in social and informal learning.

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Instancy

MARCH 23, 2021

The ability to connect with a colleague or a subject matter expert to seek help on specific work-related queries or learning about a topic related to executing a certain job task becomes feasible. Learning can happen within the work environment or business chat applications. Why is Learning in the Flow of Work Important? .

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Tony Karrer

MAY 13, 2009

Catherine Lombardozzi recent post Coaching informal learning sparked something for me around online coaching opportunities. In prior posts she identifies the following elements as being needed for informal learning strategy to be effective in the workplace: Motivation for learning. It's somewhat event oriented.

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Instancy

APRIL 21, 2014

Learn How to Setup a Successful Online Learning Business with Instancy. Create Web Presence, Publish Mobile App, Create Blended Learning Content, Social and Internet Marketing. A successful online learning business can provide people with unlimited learning opportunities to expand their knowledge.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MARCH 3, 2010

Formalizing informal learning? Learnlets , February 16, 2010 The Entreprise Collaborative has a new question , asking whether we can formalize informal learning. Coping with Twitter - Learning Conversations , February 26, 2010 #yam Twitter is a great tool for spreading messages and ideas through your network.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 24, 2010

L ast year I led workshops in London, Madrid , San Jose, Quebec, and Berlin on how to sell social networking and informal learning to senior management. His words were dirty; mine are bad for business. Here we go: Learning is a dirty word because executive managers have a hard time hearing it. CLO online edition.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 14, 2009

The half-day event, hosted by Tony Karrer, Jay Cross, Harold Jarche, and Ray Jimenez, examined “The Future of the Business of Learning”. This is extremely significant because our workers are confronted by moments of learning need more often in their work context than they are in the classroom or online.

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Jay Cross

MAY 24, 2011

The needed information is no longer in the worker’s mind but it is “out there” in the minds of others. The need for personal, informal networks – to be able to find information — has never been greater. We are moving from the information age (knowledge workers) to the conceptual age (conceptual workers).

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Convergence Training

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The idea is you can have conversations with, and ask questions of, the chatbot and get answers in return. You may not have thought yet of the ways chatbots can be used in your manufacturing learning ecosystem, but there’s a lot of potential here. Informal Learning. Artificial Intelligence.

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Janet Clarey

APRIL 2, 2009

Goals pretty evenly spread among rapid e-learning (consumption and development), reduce costs, support informal learning, improve productivity. To provide a collaborative learning environment among cross-functional groups. For knowledge management. As part of a learning plan. information/knowledge workers.

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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.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

How to support informal learning - Informal Learning , July 12, 2010 Interview. 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.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Unprecedented changes in the role of the worker, the nature of business, the pace of innovation, the importance of intangibles, the explosion of information, and the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy have rendered traditional corporate learning obsolete. Industrial age workers created value in factories.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2011

Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. The accelerating rate of change in business forces everyone in every organization to make a choice: learn while you work or become obsolete. Industrial age workers created value in factories. Knowledge workers create value in workscapes.

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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. Training became a department and a standard facet of every business.

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