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Summarizing Learn for Yourself

Jay Cross

Back in California, Peter and I met at the Institute for Research on Learning to talk further about informal learning, communities of practice, anthropological research, and learning as engagement.

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Merger mania in and around eLearning

The Learning Circuits

Anyone familiar with my posts and company knows that I am a big believer in the power of collaboration (and ideally done to such a level of integration that it results in mentoring not just with 'experts' but also with your peers) so it is heartening to see that finally we are moving past 'simplistic' collaboration (i.e.

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How to support informal learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

. • Do not punish people for failed experiments (if you never fail, you’re not innovating). • Create a network that enables people to locate who knows what. • Apply the 80/20 rule to critical functions and seed communities of practice around them. • Make mentoring and coaching part of everyone’s job. • Use information technology to pull knowledge (..)