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. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning.”. Conversation was a more effective teacher than school.

Blended Learning 167

Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 167

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.

Informal Learning 47

Informal Learning Informal Knowledge Worker Communities of Practice 47

Tony Karrer

JULY 16, 2009

But, I by no means consider myself an expert and find that I spend quite a bit of my time building my network skills so I can do this more effectively. There's quite a lot of discussion/debate whether blogs act as networks or community. Take a look at: How relevant are communities of practice in a network age?

Network 115

Network Skills Wiki Community 115

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. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning.”. Conversation was a more effective teacher than school.

Blended Learning 113

Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 113

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails Corollary: if you have SharePoint installed, you will be using SharePoint a lot more this year. Twitter, Yammer), wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc.

Predictions 198

Predictions Diversity Training Compliance Training Authoring Tools 198

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.

Communities of Practice 40

Communities of Practice Maslow Community Delicious 40

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

“Empowering individuals to learn through discovery how to lead from their strengths is a major fulcrum for my work,” says Cross, who has written extensively on the subject of self-directed and informal learning and its increasing relevance and effectiveness — as compared to company-provided training — in today’s knowledge economy.

Knowledge Worker 36

Knowledge Worker Communities of Practice Performance Support Reference 36

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.). That’s no longer the case. The oldsters are not.

Sun 36

Sun Torrent CLO Corporate eLearning 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A social media consumer, HBS professor, MIT research scientist, and author, McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making. strategy.

KM 38

KM Social Networks Authoring Tools Case Study 38

Living in Learning

AUGUST 23, 2009

Choose a metaphor of your own; bottom-line is painfully clear – the learning game has changed, and our tactics and methodologies that worked so well in a traditional “training war” are not as effective in a non-traditional battle. Our tactics need to shift because we no longer serve the expanded scope of the knowledge worker’s environment.

Performance Support 113

Performance Support Design Support Instructional Design 113

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. tension.

LearnTrends 262

LearnTrends microlearning Learning Objects PLE 262

Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 3, 2013

The key point for HR, Talent and L&D professionals is that training is only appropriate in Simple and Complicated systems where cause and effect relationships exist, are discoverable, predictable and repeatable. Best practice exists only in simple working environments. Clark’s diagram here gives a clear view.

Solution 196

Solution Compliance Training Training Train 196

eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations - Performance Learning Productivity , April 7, 2010 Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations.

Google Buzz 85

Google Buzz iPad Blended Learning Google 85

Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

An executive, a manager, a training director, and a worker each have different but valid ways of evaluating the effectiveness of learning. Training directors see learners; everyone else sees workers or employees.). Knowledge Workers. The knowledge worker’s objective is to learn what it takes to do the best she can.

Business 52

Business Metrics Director Knowledge Worker 52

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.

Informal Learning 98

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. Workers learn their jobs in the course of doing their jobs. How workers connect to colleagues and knowledge.

Corporate eLearning 71

Corporate eLearning Compliance Training Blended Learning Training 71