Jay Cross

APRIL 7, 2015

Belarus has gotten the word about informal learning. Informal Learning If they can do it, you can do it! ?? ?????? ???? ??????, ?????? 10–15 % ????????????? ?????? ???????? ?? ?????????? ??????????, ? ?????????

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 13, 2014

Inthis new E-Learning Guild Survey Research Report,Informal Learning Takes Off, Iexamine the results of a survey about informal learning in the workplace. The results show that there are nowmany interpretations of the term informal learning – from non-traditional approaches to training to autonomous, unplanned individual and team learning. The main informal learning activities […]. Social learnin

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Jay Cross

JUNE 13, 2012

Next month I’ll be offering an experiential workshop on Informal Learning through Jane Hart’s Social Learning Center. Hands-on experiential learning. The month-long event is appropriate for decision-makers, designers, CLOs, innovation leaders, managers of communications, and others who want to accelerate learning in their organization. You learn by doing. find out how to integrate learning into workflow. Informal Learning Just Jay

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Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. I’ll be leading a series of master classes on informal learning and working smarter in Europe. Informal Learning – the other 80%. Employees and partners with more capacity to learn are more versatile in adapting to future conditions. Because organizations are oblivious to informal learning, they fail to invest in it. Learning is social.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2013

People acquire the skills they use at work informally — talking, observing others, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the know. Formal training and workshops account for only 5% to 20% of what people learn from experience and interactions. Order the Informal Learning book or read a summary or download the Informal Learning Poster. What is Informal Learning? Start with these: What’s informal learning?

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Jay Cross

MARCH 27, 2015

Informal Learning is available via Google Books. Informal Learning Just Jay Read a couple of chapters for free.

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Harold Jarche

MAY 17, 2012

Stephen Hart has a good series of quotes on informal and social learning on his website. Informal LearningSometimes the right quote gets the message across faster than a long explanatory paragraph.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 2, 2013

Your organization has decided to tilt in the direction of informal learning. Masterclass for L&D managers, instructional designers, and senior instructors on the concept and implementation of informal learning. Retreat for CLOs, HR directors, planners, and policy makers on the philosophy of informal learning, the change management process required to support it, and the corporate culture that fosters its success. Introduction to informal learning.

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Jay Cross

JULY 8, 2013

If I had it to do over again, I wouldn’t call it Informal Learning. Synonyms for informal include breezy, colloquial, down home, folksy, improv, intimate, laidback, loose, low-pressure, natural, off-the-cuff, relaxed, spontaneous, sporty, throwaway, unceremonious, unconventional, unfussy, unofficial, unrestrained, urbane, without ceremony. Better I should have talked about Experiential Learning , for that’s the informal learning with the most impact.

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Harold Jarche

MARCH 15, 2011

This interconnected world sure makes it easy to learn informally though. From Twitter , I was led to an excellent overview of how the Fukushima Daiichi reactor works at Why I am not worried … which is now being hosted by MIT’s Nuclear Information Hub : The solid fuel pellet (a ceramic oxide matrix) is the first barrier that retains many of the radioactive fission products produced by the fission process. Informal Learning

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 27, 2012

Need to get your arms around the essence of informal learning in business in a hurry? Try these ten: The Informal Learning Poster. What’s informal learning? (in Informal learning in a nutshell. Bringing Informal Learning Up To Date. Realtime learning in realtime business. Controversy over Informal Learning. A Natural Way of Learning. Transform Corporate Learning for the Era of Collaboration.

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Harold Jarche

JANUARY 4, 2012

Tweet Informal learning is not better than formal training; there is just a whole lot more of it. It’s 95% of workplace learning, according to the research behind this graphic, by Gary Wise. Since the latter half of the 20th century, we have gone through a period where training departments have been directed to control organizational learning. In this context, only training professionals were allowed to talk about learning. Informal Learning

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

The 1999 Online Learning conference in Los Angeles was ground zero for eLearning. Our dream of personalized, modular, always-on learning was dashed. I fear that charlatans and dummies are taking informal learning down the same road. An Informal Learning Sequel? While it took six years to arrive, informal learning has become L&D’s flavor of the day. Numerous consultants are offering to help manage informal learning. (It

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

This deck is my starting point when I’m asked to do a presentation about informal learning. about informal learning than you did on the way in. Informal Learning informal informal learning informlSome of these 350 slides are eight years old; most are less than 24 months. Flip through the slides. I guarantee you’ll end knowing more. On my Walkabout I am experimenting with openness. I’m going to be much more open.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 24, 2013

“How do you learn what’s going on? How do you learn to do your job?” Informal Learning1-800-GOT-JUNK (“Junk”) came by Internet Time Lab to pick up 24 months of trash. The two thirty-somethings who showed up were pleasant, hard-working, and efficient. One fellow liked his job because it fix his life as a musician. For seven years, he has worked at Junk six months and then taken off to play music for six months.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

When the book on informal learning came out, nay-sayers attacked me as some kind of loony. QUESTION: How do you know that informal learning works? ANSWER: How did you learn to walk and talk? How did you learn to kiss? QUESTION: How can you measure what people learn? QUESTION: How can we assess the ROI of informal learning? But hold it, how to you assess the ROI of formal learning? Can informal learning do any worse?

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Jane Hart

APRIL 9, 2014

I am working with the E-Learning Guild on a research project about the current state of informal learning in the workplace. What types of informal learning are going on inside your organization? Please share your insight by completing the Informal Learning in the Workplace survey. Social learning The results of this survey will be analyzed and shared [.].

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 16, 2013

Why isn’t L&D supporting informal learning? Informal learning is important. In the current issue of Chief Learning Officer , IDG’s Cushing Anderson reports that these CLOs think “informal learning deserves more attention because it reflects the real world outside the classroom and knowledge that is more applicable to tasks.” (It’s The CLOs reported “…there is little knowledge about how exactly to support informal learning.”.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 12, 2013

Two weeks ago, I led a half-day masterclass on informal learning and 70:20:10 for staff and customers of the Dutch high-tech consultancy Ordina. “I do things I don’t know how to do in order to learn how to do them. That’s the basis for informal learning — trusting people to do the right thing, to go after it for themselves and take responsibility. This is so different from formal learning.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 24, 2012

Informal LearningFirst come, first served. Workshop announcement and pre-registration are here.

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Jane Hart

APRIL 27, 2012

Jay Cross, the author of the 2007 seminal book, Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance , recently wrote a blog post in which he explained that although there has been a lot of talk about “informal learning” in the last five years, there has been very little action. They acted as if the natural way of informal learning didn’t exist. Social learning

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The Entreprise Collaborative has a new question , asking whether we can formalize informal learning. To me, it’s not about formalizing informal learning so much as explicitly supporting it versus ignoring it. Like the proverbial ’stuff’, informal learning happens. To me, it is more a matter of providing infrastructure to support informal learning, and facilitating informal learning as well.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

Six years ago I wrote Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance. This is the first in a series of posts about what informal learning is and how to put it into practice. Synopsis of Informal Learning. The book made the case that most learning about how to do a job is informal. An organization that fails to address informal learning leaves a tremendous amount of learning to chance.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 3, 2010

I nformal Learning has been getting a lot of buzz lately. Many vendors claim to offer informal learning, or even “informal learning management&# without having changed anything beyond the words in their advertising. Informal Learning: Five Ways to Do More with Less. We’ll be going right back to the basics: • What is Informal Learning? What are the different ways people learn? How do people ‘learn’ their jobs?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 30, 2010

Tags: Informal Learning

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2010

Working Smarter: The “unbook&# that shows why informal learning must be part of everyone’s future learnscapes. I finished reading the book last week and have been meaning to summarize my learning from it. I have read Informal Learning and this one sums it all up. The previous one enabled me to evolve my understanding of informal, collaborative learning and this one shows me how I can act on it.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. Informal Learning 2.0. Corporate approaches to learning have to change, as well. Until the shift from industrial to network dominance, corporations could compensate for crummy learning by hiring experienced people and managing ingenious command-and-control structures. Organizations that don’t learn can’t keep up. It’s learn or die. Increasing customer loyalty though learning.

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Harold Jarche

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Tweet In Part 2 of Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does , my colleague Jane Hart uses a very helpful diagram created by a previous colleague of mine, Tom Gram : Tom Gram’s diagram [reproduced below] shows that “ most work requires a combination of knowledge work and routine work. Supporting informal learning and helping connect tacit knowledge in the enterprise are now business imperatives, not just something extra. complexity Informal Learning Work

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m writing the sequel to Informal Learning. Informal Learning Unmanagement Working Smarter informal learning informl jaycross netflixHarold Jarche posted this to the internal Internet Time Alliance network yesterday: “Check out slides 115-118″ [link] I did. I was blown away. Here ’tis: Culture (Original 2009 version) from Reed Hastings. Yet here, the CEO of Netflix gave most of my message four years ago in four slides.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 1, 2010

Best of Informal Learning Flow. Informal learning from the horse’s mouth - Informal Learning , February 3, 2010. Excellent Technical Resource for Mobile Learning - Workplace Learning Today , February 9, 2010. SharePoint Social Learning Experience - eLearning Technology , February 1, 2010. EdTechTalk Episode #5: Promoting Learning Through Asynch Discussions - Learning Visions , February 5, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 27, 2010

UMBC’s ISD Now Webinar Series — Informal Learning: 5 Ways to do More with Less, April 20, 2010. UMBC’s ISD Now Webinar Series is UMBC’s ISD Graduate Program’s newest online platform to share ideas and information on topics related to business, organizational productivity and workplace learning and performance. Guest speaker, Jay Cross, will discuss Informal Learning: 5 Ways to do More With Less. Join Us and Discover: What is Informal Learning?

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

From my pal Curt Bonk at Indiana University: My research team and I from the Instructional Systems Technology Department at Indiana University are conducting a study titled, “Collecting Stories of Extreme or Informal Learning.” ” This study explores how people learn (and teach) with technology in unique and nontraditional ways. I’m finishing up my next book, Informal Learning in Business. Where do you go to learn things?

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Harold Jarche

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

My latest article, Informal Learning: mission critical ( en français Apprentissage Informel: Mission critique ) has just been published on the Collaborative Enterprise (#eCollab) site. My interest in informal learning has grown with my experiences online. We now have a wide array of cheap and plentiful platforms for informal learning – blogs, wikis, social bookmarks, podcasts, social networks, micro-blogs. Tags: Informal Learning

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Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2012

A couple of years ago, several of us traveled to Oxford to debate whether Informal Learning was style or substance. Related: The debate over informal learning. eLearn Magazine: The Oxford Union Debate on Informal Learning, Style or Substance? Substance won out 5:1. Here’s a brief excerpt of my position. Just Jay

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Harold Jarche

MARCH 5, 2017

Learning and development (L&D) practices reflect this priority on error reduction. These five triggers can be enhanced through informal and social learning. Often this involves reducing artificial barriers between people so they can learn from each other. To improve insights on an organizational level, all work should be focused on learning. This is learning while working, not heading off on a course or attending a class.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today eLearn Magazine published a story on the debate at Oxford on whether informal learning is more style than substance. It was a rollicking good time, with Allison Rossett, Nancy Lewis, and Mark Doughty futilely making the argument that informal learning is style, and Bill Dutton, David Wilson, and I debating that informal learning is substantive.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 16, 2011

Tomorrow I am going to be chairing an all-day event in Bristol for the eLearning Network, called Making the most of Informal Learning. Here’s a brief overview of the event: “We know how important informal learning is in the workplace, but how do we encourage it? Then from 2.30-4 pm BST (GMT+1) Nic and I will be running a session on using social media tools for informal learning. Tweet.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Allen Tough, a brief talk at the 3rd New Approaches to Lifelong Learning (NALL) Conference. They’re not aware of other people’s learning, educators don’t take it into account and so on. … Another finding was that we were looking at all learning efforts, including ‘professionally planned’ or ‘academic or institutional’ or whatever you want to call them; formal. And the other 80% was informal. Tags: Informal Learning innovation

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 3, 2010

Best of Informal Learning Flow. Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles - eLearning Technology , March 24, 2010. Moodle: e-learning’s Frankenstein - Donald Clark Plan B , March 6, 2010. Blog – Gravity Emerges from Quantum Information, Say Physicists - Technology Review Feed – Tech Review Top Stories , March 25, 2010. Elements for Constructing Social Learning Environments - Workplace Learning Today , March 16, 2010.

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Jay Cross

MAY 7, 2010

Tags: Informal Learning Workscaping

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 29, 2010

Top Informal Learning links for the first month of 2010. Open course-wars, redux… the real nastiness is elsewhere - Abject Learning , January 5, 2010. Do I Need to Know It, or Just How to Find It? - Workplace Learning Today , January 20, 2010. The End of the Industrial Training Era - Informal Learning , January 2, 2010. I find lists like this great for serendipitous learning. Informal learning is like that.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 27, 2010

It captures my current thinking about informal learning. Tags: Informal Learning YouTube of Jay’s UMBC ISD Now! webinar. Warning: This sucker is 64 minutes long.

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Harold Jarche

APRIL 21, 2010

Telling people that we can “formalize informal learning&# is a not so subtle way of saying, “it’s OK, you don’t have to make any fundamental changes to the way you’ve been been doing training & development for the past half century&#. I asked the question in February’s eCollab Blog Carnival , with tongue very close to my cheek, because I knew it would stimulate discussion on the role of informal learning in workplace performance.

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