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Driven by demand
Human Capital Institute is hosting a webinar by Dave Wilkins and Jay Cross entitled Put “Learning Demand” in the Drivers Seat . By focusing on the demand side (what learners need) they can facilitate the biggest part of the learning experience-informal learning. While informal learning is spontaneous it is not as informal as it may initially appear. Organizations that focus on the supply side of the training they provide are looking at the wrong side of the equation. It means orchestrating informal tools to be available in
Informal Learning - Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Favourite Workplace Learning Blogs
Shortly after that, Maria Anderson suggested that I create a list for workplace learning . don’t like creating “Top 50″ lists so here are my current favourite sources of information and knowledge about learning, especially for the networked business environment. These are not all the blogs I read and I have another set of blogs that are more academic and purely learning related. This list is a result of a series of tweets, initiated by Janet Clarey who referred to a Top 50 list of educational technology blogs. I
Learning and Working on the Web - Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Understanding "learning" - some more thoughts
My colleagues at the Internet Time Alliance have been thinking a lot about what "learning" and being a "learner" means.  This has been part of the ongoing discussion we have been having about the hijacking of terms like informal and social learning by "snake oil sellers". Jay Cross has become well known for helping organisations understand that learning is either formal or informal .  In my Social Learning Handbook I identified 5 categories of learning : Formal Structured Learning , Personal Directed Learning , Group Directed Learning , Intra-Organisational Learning and Accidental & Serendiptous Learning .
Jane Hart - Pick of the Day - Thursday, March 4, 2010
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  • Informal learning from the horse’s mouth
    Every morning, my email is littered with very basic questions about informal learning. I’ve been ranting about informal and computer-supported learning in organizations for twelve years now. I’m the Johnny Appleseed of networked, social learning I make 95% of my work available on the net at no charge.
    Informal Learning - Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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  • The future of the training department
    by Harold Jarche and Jay Cross Sometimes guilds helped apprentices learn by doing things under the eye of a master, but there weren’t any trainers involved. Xerox Learning, DDI, Forum Corporation, and hundreds of other “instructional systems companies” sprung up. Thousands upon thousands of trainers attended conferences Prior to the 20th Century, training per se did not exist outside the special needs of the church and the military. Now the training department may be at the end of its life cycle.
    TogetherLearn - Friday, February 20, 2009
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  • Follow the Leaders: Sharing Jay Cross' Collected Wisdom
    The recent Online Educa International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training featured a stream of fascinating workshops in and around informal learning that was organized and facilitated by Jay Cross (author of Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance .) I attended a number of the workshops in this stream, that started with a session called "The Great Training Robbery" and included others such as "The New Era of Corporate Learning Unconference" and a Pecha Kucha Mini-Master
    You Learn Something New Every Day - Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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  • Increased complexity needs simplified design
    In the book Informal Learning: rediscovering the natural pathways that inspire innovation and performance , Jay Cross draws a parallel between the development of: The learning analogy Jay provides is 1) One on One, 2) Classes & Workshops, and 3) Informal learning. 1) Bands, 2) Kingdoms, and 3) Democracies with
    Learning and Working on the Web - Monday, October 5, 2009
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  • Informal Learning 2.0
    Effectiveness – Jay Cross Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009 Informal Learning 2.0 Jay Cross Corporate approaches to learning have to change, as well. In the world of business, the era of networks is crowding out the Industrial Age. Network connections are replacing rigidity with flexibility, penetrating internal boundaries and silos and obliterating the walls that have separated businesses from their customers.
    Internet Time - Friday, August 7, 2009
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  • Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency
    Via Jay Cross, an older article about transfer of learning . The study suggests… …managers learn mostly from informal learning, that proficiency is the product of informal learning, and that metacognitive knowledge and self-regulation skills moderate informal learning and the transfer process. Power of informal learning in developing managers | Informal Learning Blog | Jay Cross | 21 October 2009 ...Tags: A chart from the study [click image to make larger].
    Workplace Learning Today - Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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  • Informal learning hot list for February 2009
    It beats threshing a barrage of chaff to locate the kernels of information you want. The Informal Learning Flow aggregator is beginning to take social signals into account. on the eLearning Learning Hot List on Informal Learning Wouldn’t it be cool to let the wisdom of your crowd suggest things on the net that merit your attention? It’s a time-saver, time is money, and most of us could use more of it.
    Internet Time - Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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  • The Future of the Training Department
    Sometimes guilds helped apprentices learn by doing things under the eye of a master, but there weren’t any trainers involved. Xerox Learning, DDI, Forum Corporation, and hundreds of other “instructional systems companies” sprung up.  Thousands upon thousands of trainers attended conferences to learn about new  approaches like programmed instruction, behavior modification, roleplay, certification, CD-ROM, sensitivity training. The latter 20th Century was the golden era of the training department. Before the 20th Century, training per se did not exist outside
    Learning and Working on the Web - Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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  • Connecting ideas with communities
    I use the chasm model to explain my professional work of 1) seeing what is ready to cross the chasm by 2) staying connected to the innovators & being an early adopter so that 3) I can help mainstream organizations. Mavens are the senders and receivers of information.  For example, informal learning in the organization was an idea five years ago. It’s a good graphic summary of my consulting practice. Five years ago I looked at a couple of models (Rogers & Gladwell) in the Dummies Guide to Change and came up with a model on how you might be able
    Learning and Working on the Web - Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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  • 8 Dirty Words
    by Jay Cross L ast year I led workshops in London, Madrid , San Jose, Quebec, and Berlin on how to sell social networking and informal learning to senior management. Learning is a dirty word because executive managers have a hard time hearing it. Learning taints the conversation. CLO online edition Dirty Words
    Informal Learning - Sunday, January 24, 2010
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