  Jay
Cross is a 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 eleventh year, Internet Time Group LLC has provided advice and guidance to Cisco, Eaton, IBM, Sun, National Australia Bank, Intel, Genentech, Novartis, HP, the CIA, the World Bank, and numerous others. We are currently refining informal/web 2.0 learning management approaches that accelerate performance. Jay and his colleagues at togetherLearn are helping companies build online communities and boost innovation. We frequently lead "Adrenalin Shot Workshops" for corporate teams. MORE Jay served as CEO of eLearning Forum for its first five years 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 (Bogota), LearnX (Melbourne), and Learning Technology (London). He is the author of Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance and other BOOKS and ARTICLES. Every day, thousands of people read his 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. Brief bio for introductions
What I'm Up To Speaking, writing, promoting, explaining, and demonstrating informal learning, loosely-coupled organizational ecologies, ways to harness collective intelligence, and learnscapes (platforms for learning). I'm the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning.
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You have been a tremendous help shaping our vision for the future of Learning at Intel. I was amazed at the way you engaged with us, brainstormed with us, and then created a presentation within hours, to reflect back our current and future situations. Your individual consultations and idea swap-meets get the creative brainstorming going and have helped us dream big and think beyond the norm. I love that you are able to peel away the layers of “business as usual” to see what’s really been happening all along. Even more than that, you’ve been able to consult with our learning leaders and articulate the true value of our shifting landscape (or learnscape!). As we put a plan in place for next year, it’s been a big help to look back on our time with you and identify some of our critical next steps. Allison Anderson 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 |
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