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Performance Support in 2015

Tony Karrer

We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work. See Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency? This is going to first take the form of hundreds of thousands of different little applications that each provide performance support for particular tasks.

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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

One realization is that most of the benefits to business are coming increasingly from so-called knowledge work, work that processes information in productive ways. Our cognitive strengths are pattern-matching and meaning-making, while computers instead excel at performing rote tasks and complex calculations.

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Informal Learning 2.0

Jay Cross

Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. In a networked corporation, there is scant difference between knowledge work and learning. Business success depends on them working together rather than as individuals. Effectiveness – Jay Cross. Informal Learning 2.0. Put innovation on everyone’s to-do list.

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Slow Learning – #change11

Clark Quinn

It’s not about knowledge dump and test, but instead about coupling engaged activity with reflection. I like Collins, Brown, & Holum’s Cognitive Apprenticeship as a model for thinking more richly about learning. The notion is a sort-of personal GPS for your knowledge work. Michael Allen’s eLearning Annual 2009.

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Curated Insights: The Human Side of Extracting Business Value from Information

CLO Magazine

Advertised job postings have doubled since 2009 according to analysis by Indeed.com, and a 2016 Davos World Economic Forum report lists critical thinking as No. As cognitive systems continue to strip away routine knowledge work, expert critical thinkers will play an increasingly valuable role in driving business actions and decisions.

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Learning for the 21st Century

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

It’s a dog’s breakfast of acquiring skills, information, knowledge, savoir faire, and more. Its dimensions are emotional, cognitive, physical, sensory, and social. In fact, Frederick Taylor told workers, ‘You’re not paid to think’ Along came knowledge work. Learning is not one activity.

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2008 in retrospect

Jay Cross

I’m closing the chapter on 2008 and gearing up for 2009 and beyond. Next year, I intend to start making the world a better place, and that’s going to take more oomph, focus, and work with others. Learnscapes : where informal learning and knowledge work converge. Be forewarned: it’s me, me, me.