Harm told me about his team’s experience with informal learning in an engagement with Sara Lee. At the beginning of this century, learning management systems were quite dominant, and therefore dominant on the radar screen of Sara Lee. Informal: - Experiences on the job. Tags: Informal Learning Training programs. MORE >>

I recently participated in MIT’s 2010 Systems Thinking Conference for Contemporary Challenges.  This annual conference is sponsored by Systems Design and Management (SDM) - an interdisciplinary program between MIT’s School of Engineering and Sloan School of Management.  Political leaders blame recession on corporate fraud or terrorism.  MORE >>

Digital technologies are enabling us to develop systems with huge numbers of interconnected components and sophisticated software that infuses them with seemingly unlimited capabilities.  But, we have much to learn on how to best design and operate these systems.  We are not just passive observers.  Let me discuss a few.  . MORE >>

Interestingly, that's how many people used to think of electronic information systems - as mechanisms into which you input facts to facilitate easy discovery and retrieval. The computer, or online systems (such as Minitel) were visualized as giant electronic libraries, with the sum total of the world's knowledge at our disposal. MORE >>

Cross is a champion of informal learning, Web 2.0, and systems thinking. They are currently refining informal/web 2.0 His published works include Informal Learning : Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance as well as other books and countless articles. Tags: Informal Learning MORE >>