The Web Time Alliance Memorial Award in reminiscence of Jay Cross is introduced to a office studying skilled who has contributed in optimistic methods to the sector of Casual Studying and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of labor.
Recipients champion office and social studying practices inside their group and/or on the broader stage. They share their work in public and sometimes problem typical knowledge. The Award is given to professionals who repeatedly welcome challenges on the reducing fringe of their experience and are convincing and efficient advocates of a humanistic strategy to office studying and efficiency.
We announce the award on 5 July, Jay’s birthday.
Following his dying in November 2015, the companions of the Web Time Alliance — Jane Hart, Charles Jennings, Clark Quinn, and myself — resolved to proceed Jay’s work. Jay Cross was a deep thinker and a person of many abilities, by no means resting on his previous accomplishments, and this award is one solution to maintain pushing our skilled fields and industries to seek out new and higher methods to be taught and work.
The ninth Annual Web Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award for 2024 is introduced to Ryan Tracey
Over the previous 25 years Ryan has constantly demonstrated a resilient strategy to, and advocacy for, office studying. He speaks pragmatically about supporting studying with an irreverent but supportive type. His weblog, e-Studying Provocateur is a supply of perception. He’s acknowledged for wanting past formal studying to social and casual studying, recognizing that studying occurs, and the job of L&D is to help and facilitate it, to not be utterly liable for it.
Ryan has served in a number of roles for organizations throughout industries and authorities, transferring from tutorial merchandise by way of organizational studying & improvement and innovation roles to his present place as functionality supervisor at Macquarie Group. As a studying skilled, Ryan has additionally demonstrated help for colleagues. He has pointed to alternatives, given recommendation, and served generously.
Ryan has additionally contributed broadly to the worldwide career by way of membership of the editorial board for the Affiliation for Computing Equipment’s eLearn Journal and different committees.
His youngsters’s guide ‘Ryan the Lion’ which explores themes of social tolerance, shallowness, and private identification displays Ryan’s personal beliefs in human-centred studying and improvement.
Ryan has been a gracious host to a number of of us throughout visits to Sydney.
For his contributions and continuous advocacy for going past instruction Ryan is the 2024 recipient of the award.