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To optimize your learning, optimize your networks

Jay Cross

The Internet Time Alliance has been brainstorming models of learning networks. Harold recently posted this model: Workers collaborate in Project Teams to get the job done. These networks operate behind the firewall (e.g., The work team is a different sort of animal because we have a job to do. research chemists).

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How to Replace Top-Down Training with Collaborative Learning (3)

Jay Cross

Conventions like ASCII, programming languages, Internet protocol, and encryption were developed for corporate mainframe computers and only later adopted for personal computers. You probably can’t afford, and definitely don’t need, to create your own Facebook or Google behind your firewall. A Note About Internet Access.