Follow the Leaders: Sharing Jay Cross' Collected Wisdom

The recent Online Educa International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training featured a stream of fascinating workshops in and around informal learning that was organized and facilitated by Jay Cross (author of Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance.)

I attended a number of the workshops in this stream, that started with a session called "The Great Training Robbery" and included others such as "The New Era of Corporate Learning Unconference" and a Pecha Kucha Mini-Master Class (my first exposure to this cool presentation technique). (Note for conference organizers: Titles are everything when you have 10 parallel sessions to choose from, plus the ongoing pull of the cafe or bar for networking; this stream had some of the most provocative titles and they lived up to their promise.)

Today, Jay kindly sent around to participants of his workshop stream a wonderful set of links to all the rich content and out-front thinkers who contributed to his sessions and said, "Feel free to pass it to others." So here it is, a veritable cornucopia of fantastic stuff about learning, well worth exploring for new ideas and to get a feeling for where some of the leaders in this field are heading:

Session: Informal Learning + Web 2.0 = Social Learning Breakthroughs

The Cluetrain Manifesto, the important book for understanding web culture;

Jerry Michalski's video interviews with Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman (who challenged transport planners to look again at the way people and technology relate to each other);

Enterprise 2.0, important new book by Andy McAfee;

CIA Blog & Wiki Vision by CLO Carl Andrus;

Toolwire, David Clarke IV's company;

Jerry's online Brain and tweetstream

Jay's Research Page and Articles

Jane Hart's eLearning Pick of the Day

Jane's Social Media in Learning

Pecha Kucha Mini-Master Class:
Recordings of our first four Pecha Kucha sessions on YouTube.

Session: The New Era of Corporate Learning

Internet Time Alliance, the folks running the workshops

Charles Jennings' blog

Jay's blog

Kevin Wheeler's Global Learning Resources and blog, Over The Seas

Kevin's Corporate University site

Jane's Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies

Jay's notes on Unmeetings and Open Space Technology

Jay's Research Page

Online Educa Learning Video Festival
The video listing is at http://bit.ly/8XPDsB

Faculty (Gillian: I added the links here)

• Jay Cross: Internet Time Alliance
• Charles Jennings: Internet Time Alliance & Duntroon Associates Ltd.
• Jane Hart: Internet Time Alliance & Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
• Harold Jarche: Internet Time Alliance
• Jon Husband: Internet Time Alliance & Wirearchy
• Heike Philp: Lancelot School
• David James Clarke IV: Toolwire
• Jerry Michalski: Sociate
• Kevin Wheeler: Global Learning Resources
  

All of these experts make multiple resources available for other's to use, whether its a daily reviews of learning tools and news on their blogs, Delicious pages, Flikr accounts, Podcasts, YouTube videos, and Twitter feeds - all are focused on social learning, walking their talk, and making it easy for others to follow some of the leading thinkers exploring this growing field.