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  Jay
Cross is the champion of
informal learning, web 2.0, and systems thinking. His
calling is to help business people improve their performance
on the job and satisfaction in life.
He has
challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the
first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix three
decades ago.Now in its ninth year, Internet Time Group LLC has provided advice and guidance to Cisco, IBM, Sun, Genentech, Merck, Novartis, HP, the CIA, the World Bank, the World Cafe, and numerous others. We are currently refining informal/web 2.0 learning management approaches that accelerate performance. He frequently leads "Adrenalin Shot Workshops" for corporate teams. Jay served as CEO of eLearning Forum for its first five years, was the first to use the term eLearning on the web, and has keynoted such conferences as Online Educa (Berlin), I-KNOW (Austria), Research Innovations in Learning (U.S.), Emerging eLearning (Abu Dhabi), Training (U.S.),Quality in eLearning (Bogotá), and Learning Technology (London).
He is the author of Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance, coauthor of Implementing eLearning, contributor to The Blended Learning Handbook, and author of many magazine articles. Every day, thousands of people read his two blogs, Internet Time and Informal Learning Blog.
Jay is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. He and his wife Uta live with two miniature longhaired dachshunds in the hills of Berkeley, California. |
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What I'm Up To
Assembling how-to examples for the Informal Learning 2.0 Fieldbook. Quick overview. Concept slides. Brief presentation. Please join me.
Helping companies build online communities and boost innovation, often via two-day site visits reinforced with web 2.0 tools.
Speaking, writing, promoting, explaining, and demonstrating informal learning, loosely-coupled organizational ecologies, and ways to harness collective intelligence. (I'm the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning.)
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Hi there Jay, I feel compelled to put fingers to keyboard as I'm up to Chapter 6 of Informal Learning and am absolutely bowled over by your work. I'm heading up a newly formed Learning Solutions team and we are keen to tranform ourselves from the formal to informal 'space'. You have articulated so beautifully what we are trying to achieve, but have struggled to put into words. I feel totally inspired to make this live and breathe in our organisation and am fortunate enough to work with a group of people who I know can make this work. Thank you so much - your insight arrived at just the right time SL
The key to the 21st Century will be in learning how to leverage informal learning for us all. Jay provides us an evocative roadmap to how we can do this. John Seely Brown
Jay talks about unblended learning, emergence, grokking, envisioning, unconferencing, connecting, conversation, community, web2.0 and JDI (just do it). He makes the point that classes are dead, that every learner needs to cultivate an ecology, share via voicing, communicate using stories and build common text by collaborative editing (wikis). Denham Gray
Jay provides an important challenge for us all—to move our focus from the classroom to the workplace, and, in doing so, reframe what we do in ways that much more closely reflect how people actually learn and perform on the job. Marc Rosenberg
Jay is one of the most courageous personalities I've ever encountered, especially in a field where self-interested cowardice is pretty much the rule. His clarity of vision on all things relating to learning in the corporate world is only matched by his commitment to helping others make it work. He cuts through nonsense with incredible speed and precision.
Is Jay a revolutionary? Only in his long-term vision. For the rest his focus is on the nuts and bolts of human relations, which is what transfer and development of knowledge is all about. Peter Isackson
“Internet Time dominates the North American eLearning information landscape. I just can’t believe any other site comes close. At Learning Designs Online, it is now our principal point of reference. You should charge for this–it is truely awesome.” Al Bailey
“Take a mega-high IQ, some Berkeley attitude, a dose of e-learning curiosity and you get Jay Cross. For opinion and analysis, nothing is as interesting or fun as Jay’s blog.”6 Kevin Kruse, eLearning Guru
“When I started in this field, your site was one of those that quickly got me up to date and current on the subject. Plus, I find that what you put up is very much ‘ahead of the curve.’" Rod Savoie
“You give us Europeans an opportunity to follow the hottest e-learning topics being discussed in the USA.” Kari Mikkel
“I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again…you’ve got the best e-learning reference source on the web.” Ned Davis
“I’ve just spent the better part of the day wandering around your Internet Time/ eLearning site in search of a good keynoter for our conference next August. You really have too much information there and you’ve displayed it too well.”
“Internet Time is the most useful elearning site on the web.” Dennis Callahan
“Jay Cross, among just a few others, gives me the impetus to keep on moving ahead into uncharted territory.” Michael Hotrum
“Very few times have I bumped into a presentation material around the world of Learning and Knowledge that I may have enjoyed just as much as the one I have just been through from Jay Cross over at Informal Learning. It is titled Informal Learning Research Findings. There are just so many things that Jay mentions throughout the presentation that in itself it is just worth while the time to go through it. It is not too long so you can just sit down, relax and enjoy the show. Because it certainly has been one of those presentations worth while listening and learning from.” Luis Suarez
I was already sold on the central idea - that informal learning was an important and often neglected element of learning at work - and so was really just looking for those little extras that a first rate thinker and communicator like Jay Cross is likely to have gathered together in such a publication.
So, what do I think? I like it. Jay's friendly, unassuming and approachable personality shines through the book. I get the impression he's writing for me. In terms of content, I measure books on the number of sections that I've underlined or annotated and I've just counted 50 - I make that less than a dollar a hit.seduction Clive Shepherd
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Brief introduction
Chapter 1: Out of Time Chapter 2: A Natural Way of Learning Chapter 3: Show Me The Money
Free Articles
Growing a Business on Internet Time |
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Learning Technologies 2008 London
Informal Learning in 10 Minutes, YouTube, January 2007
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