Lately I’ve been digging into blogs, books and wiki entries about informal learning and communities of practice. This clip by Jay Cross makes everything click for me.
It seems, though, that the ideas presented by Mr. Cross fly smack in the face of the beliefs of 90 percent of the people with whom I interact in both my professional and academic lives. They need to see this video, though–not only to begin thinking about what Mr. Cross has to say (I love the “training” vs. “learning” part), but also to show that you don’t need fancy equipment, expensive production crews, or complicated distribution networks–you just need compelling content. We can’t use technology or economics as excuses any longer.I know none of this is new–but it is new to the majority of people I deal with daily. How do I introduce them to these concepts without coming off as threatening? I mean, this is pretty paradigm-shifting stuff, for lack of a better buzz phrase–
