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Germany. In May 1970, the month of his discharge, he married Uta Bawey in Heidelberg. Cross returned to the U.S., attending Harvard Business School, receiving an MBA in 1974.
265:"Changing Worlds of Learning: Strengthening Informal Learning in Formal Institutions?" in Changing Cultures in Higher Education: Moving Ahead to Future Learning. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Dirk Schneckenberg (editors). Springer. March 2010.
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hired Cross for an education startup created out of
Sperling's professorship at San Jose State University. Cross wrote a business course for Sperling, then a business degree program for what eventually became the
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there are others who are said to have coined the term e-learning, Cross described his involvement by saying, "the term grew around him." There are claims he coined the term as late as 2004.
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learning but doesn't carry the heaviest load. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning." Cross later abandoned the term
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