Testimonials

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

Jay is an evangelist of the intelligent application of new learning methods and tools, and he helps organizations improve the performance of their people by speeding up their learning. Jay is also an absolutely great presenter, a good writer, and a sharp mind to work with.

Robin Good

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.

Kevin Kruse, eLearning Guru

You give us Europeans an opportunity to follow the hottest e-learning topics being discussed in the USA.

Kari Mikkel

I have said it before, I will say it again: you have got the best e-learning reference source on the web.

Ned Davis

I have 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 have 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