Jay Cross created the Internet Time Alliance, bringing together leaders in the field of social and informal learning to develop thinking, and to help organizations, around exploiting informal and social learning. This slide deck contains some quotes from the members of the Internet Time Alliance posted on the 3rd anniversary of Jay's death.
4. In the new world of work,
learning is not something that happens
just in education or training,
but happens in many different ways
every day both at work and on the Web.
—Jane
InternetTimeAlliance.co
5. In the maelstrom of our
digital communications age
the need to think ‘socially’
is more important than ever.
—Charles
InternetTimeAlliance.co
6. The real mobile opportunity is about
performance support and
contextualized learning.
—Clark
InternetTimeAlliance.co
8. When an enterprise commits
to becoming a diverse, organic,
value-creating network,
the training department
has to join the fray.
—Jay
InternetTimeAlliance.co
9. You cannot force social learning.
Social learning and collaborative
working are organic processes.
—Jane
InternetTimeAlliance.co
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Corporate learning and capability-building
needs to grow up.
For any organization trying to stay
competitive, conventional training
is no longer enough, or even the answer
in many cases.
—Charles
11. Going forward, optimal execution
will just be the cost of entry;
the only sustainable differentiator
will be continual innovation.
—Clark
InternetTimeAlliance.co
12. In today’s digital economy,
you are only as good as your network.
—Harold
InternetTimeAlliance.co
13. The only metrics that matter
are business metrics.
—Jay
InternetTimeAlliance.co
14. Many employees are meeting their
own needs by going AROUND the
training department.
—Jane
InternetTimeAlliance.co
15. Reflective practice itself doesn’t ‘just happen’.
It is a learned process. It requires some degree
of self-awareness and the ability to critically
evaluate experiences, actions, and results.
—Charles
InternetTimeAlliance.co
16. The limitation
is no longer the technology,
the limit now is our imagination.
—Clark
InternetTimeAlliance.co
17. As we attempt to transition
into a networked creative economy,
we need leaders who promote learning
and who master fast, relevant, and
autonomous learning themselves.
—Harold
InternetTimeAlliance.co
18. 80% of corporate learning
is informal;
80% of the money
goes to formal.
—Jay
InternetTimeAlliance.co
19. It is ultimately your
responsibility to take
charge of your own
lifelong learning.
—Jane
InternetTimeAlliance.co
20. In the course mindset, the output is seen
as ‘learning’. In the campaign mindset,
the output is improved performance —
organisational performance,
team performance, and
individual performance.
—Charles
InternetTimeAlliance.co
21. Working smarter is a new interpretation
of eLearning that’s bigger than just
courses on the web or a phone.
And it’s key to a strategic focus
for learning executives.
—Clark
InternetTimeAlliance.co
22. Training is often
a solution looking for a problem
and is frequently used to cover up
poor systems, unclear procedures, or
poor management practices.
—Harold
InternetTimeAlliance.co
23. Work and learning are becoming one and the same.
—Jay
When working is learning, then your organisation’s
learning is working.
—Charles
Work is learning, and learning is the work.
—Harold
InternetTimeAlliance.co