I’m insanely jealous. It turns out that Jay Cross lives in a house built by the great architect Christopher Alexander. I’m a huge fan of Alexander’s work. Furthermore, I think anyone who does instructional design should read Alexander’s book. No, I don’t mean The Nature of Order, which is the book that Jay is apparently [...]
This piece by Richard Seel (found by way of the Wrede article referenced in the previous post) is yet another version of emergent learning that seems to live roughly in the same neighborhood as Kathleen Gilroy’s and Godfrey Parkin’s (though I’m not suggesting that he precisely agrees with either of them). Seel suggests a small-group [...]
Godfrey Parkin blogs:
In the E-literate blog, Michael Feldstein has recently had a couple of jabs at the burgeoning interest in emergent learning, as enthusiastically promoted by Jay Cross and others. I suspect that he’s overthinking it and just doesn’t get it.
If so, it wouldn’t be the first time. However, at the risk of compounding the [...]
I have had several really gratifying exchanges with folks at the Workflow Insititute over the last couple of days. To begin with, two days ago, I got an email from Anne Henry at the Workflow Institute responding to this post, thanking me for spreading the use of the term “workflow learning” and sending me a [...]
In general, I like Jay Cross’ writings. While I have never personally met the guy, I find that his articles usually have something interesting and sensible to say. Which is why I’m so disappointed with his overly exhuberant fluff piece in e-Learn:
“For some, the work of the future will resemble an elaborate, personalized video [...]
