Jay Cross helps people work and live smarter. Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. He wrote the book on it. He was the first person to use the term eLearning on the web. He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix.
Recognize this? It cost me $1,000.
When my car was detailed, this part of the steering column was damaged. It doesn’t come any smaller. You can’t buy these individually.
BMW has decreed that you have to buy all these parts, even when some of them are perfectly okay. (My car’s issue was with the collar thing-a-ma-bob in the center.)
Dumb design, eh? It’s (more...)
Click these to see the moon through a 1200 mm lens.
Business+MOOCs Hangout on Air
February 27, 9:30 am Pacific time.
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Instructions for watching on YouTube will appear at the Learning Community at show time.
Clark Quinn will manage our back channel on Twitter. #QMOOC
Links
Jay’s MOOC bookmarks
This is an amazing camera. Takes great shots. The show-stopper is x50 zoom.
These shots of the meditation chair in my redwood grove were all taken from the same location!
Here are two cars filled with intangibles on the n-scale Internet Time Lines:
and the caboose:
Spring has sprung here in Berkeley. This is my neighbor’s back yard:
Here’s a meal of black bean soup (more...)
Ten years ago I devoured this book and passed it along to Clark Quinn, who coined the term “Slow Learning” as a result. Here is his brilliant piece on Slow Learning.
The analogy is apt.
In the dark ages of American sophistication about eating circa 1950, common wisdom was tip was short for T.I.P. meaning “to insure promptness.”* Food in this country was so abysmal (more...)
February 27, 9:30 am Pacific time.
Join the Google+ Learning Community to stay in the loop.
Expected:
Jay Cross
George Siemens
Stephen Downes
Dave Cormier
Center for Creative Leadership
Invited:
Daphe Koller, Coursera
Udacity
edX
Curt Bonk
Who else should be there?
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If you’re new here, be aware that (more...)
50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10
part 1 of 5
People learn their jobs by doing their jobs. Effective managers make stretch
assignments and coach their team members. Experience is the teacher, and managers shape those experiences.
These posts offer guidance to managers who want to make learning from experience and conversation more effective. Replacing today’s haphazard approaches with systematic, (more...)
Learning Innovations and Quality Conference: “The Future of Digital Resources”
LINQ is the only European conference to cover both Learning Innovations and Learning Quality.
I will deliver the opening keynote on Friday, May 17th, at the Global Headquarters of United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome.
The Learning Community now has 345 members. Invite your friends. Tell the staff.
The broader our Community, the more likely it will shower us with great collective intelligence and fun camaraderie. Only connect.
Drop by the Google+ Learning Community Hangout this Friday at 9:00 am Pacific | 12:00 pm Eastern | 5:00 pm Greenwich Mean | 6:00 pm Berlin | Abu Dhabi 9:00 pm | Shanghai 1:00 am | Sydney 4:00 (more...)
Welcome to Jay’s hangout on the web! There’s a lot underneath the hood here. I’ve been blogging more than a dozen years. Go to “coordinates” for a list of what to check out and how to get in touch. Don’t miss the Important Stuff collection.
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