Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Forming the Alliance community was easily the best professional development move of my career. We are continuously conversing on Skype and we meet online as a group every Monday morning to talk over news and gossip, chat about trends, and ask for pointers and help.

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Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 113

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. Back in California, Peter and I met at IRL to talk further about informal learning, communities of practice, anthropological research, and learning as engagement.

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Informal Learning Informal Knowledge Worker Communities of Practice 47

Jay Cross

JUNE 2, 2013

A majority of creative knowledge workers will leave Pre-college for a new form of internship, where continuing education and experiential learning co-exist. COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE. Chefs are my favorite example of organic communities of practice. Communities of practice can be subtle.

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Communities of Practice Maslow Community Delicious 40

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 27, 2008

The next morning, Jonny Parkes of The Irish Learning Alliance shared a vision of Elite , a learning platform where the semantic web, social learning, and communities of practice converge. In a knowledge society, work and learning are the same thing. (Check this out.). Sun and ILA are developing what I call learnscapes.

Sun 36

Sun Torrent CLO Corporate eLearning 36

Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

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. Now, new tools.

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LearnTrends microlearning Learning Objects PLE 262

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. One presentation that really caught my eye is the ‘ Twitter is Dead ‘ from Tony McNeill.

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Google Buzz iPad Blended Learning Google 85

Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

Informal learning is effective because it is personal. Now it’s often more effective to take control by giving control, by letting “the invisible hand” self-organize worker learning. The organization establishes the goals and gives the workers flexibility in how to meet them. How workers learn now.

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Informal Learning Informal Blended Learning Authoring Tools 98

Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

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. That accounts for a mere 5%-10% of the way workers learn their jobs. Personal & professional networks & communities.

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Corporate eLearning Compliance Training Blended Learning Training 71