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Jay Cross – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Jay has keynoted conferences in the U.S., Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Forming the Alliance community was easily the best professional development move of my career. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning.”. Canada, Austria, U.K.,

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JAY CROSS – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

Jay has keynoted conferences in the U.S., Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Forming the Alliance community was easily the best professional development move of my career. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning.”. Canada, Austria, U.K.,

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Reflections from May trip to Italy, UK, and Netherlands

Jay Cross

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. COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE. Chefs are my favorite example of organic communities of practice.

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LearnTrends: Microlearning

Experiencing eLearning

From a 2008 microlearning conference “There is a need and pressure to learn continually due to rapid change in society and the economy…Knowledge gaps are widening.&#. Basic goal: make learning more effective through new media. To know if it’s effective. not knowledge workers. tension.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

The road ahead : I am presently developing detailed role descriptions, community guidelines, role assessment tools, and the identification of appropriate learning products and offerings. aLearning , April 13, 2010 We make recordings all the time: podcasts, recorded audio conferences, recorded Webinars. Can You Learn from a Recording?

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

Informal learning is effective because it is personal. When I’ve pointed this out in presentations at conferences, members of the audience ask what they can do to improve informal learning. Now it’s often more effective to take control by giving control, by letting “the invisible hand” self-organize worker learning.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Service industries challenge workers to acquire tacit knowledge — the kind of know-how one learns on the job, not in the classroom. Person-to-person instruction is no longer cost-effective. Workers learn their jobs in the course of doing their jobs. Where Corporate Learning Came From.