ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

To strike a work-life balance, work from home as much as possible (most of the time). This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. Technology —is great for exchange of information, updates and other transactional stuff. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration.

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Stock Skype Knowledge Worker Community 124

Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

Knowledge work has evolved into keeping up and taking advantage of connections. Charles Jennings made 70:20:10 a guiding philosophy of learning during his eight-year tenure as Chief Learning Officer at Reuters, the world’s largest information company. An effective community of practice is like a beehive.

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Social Networks Social Network Communities of Practice Lesson 83

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The reality is that what we did on the Work Literacy course or what I did for my Collaborative Learning Course could easily be supported by the various types of web parts within SharePoint. They focus more on information push and it's less intended to have user-contributed content. These would be external consituents.

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SharePoint PWLE eLearning 2.0 Diversity Training 133

Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

However, society moved on, the world of work changed, and the industrialised processes were replaced by knowledge working. For example, social media is encouraging learners not only to discover existing knowledge, it is also enabling them to create, repurpose, organise and share new knowledge.

Social Media 87

Social Media Pedagogy Lecture Theory 87

Jay Cross

MARCH 19, 2012

About three hundred years ago, work became an organizational matter. Factories require groups of people working together. To coordinate their activities, groups need a shared understanding of who is doing what. Yesterday’s best practices were the appropriate prescription for curing tomorrow’s ills.

Authoring Tools 46

Authoring Tools CD-ROM Compliance Training DDI 46

Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Microlearning – the learning that results from “micro” content published in short form and limited by the software and devices used to view it – offers alternatives to traditional development methods for workers who deal with web-based information as part of their job. Pathway to community; you have to be embedded in the community to help.

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LearnTrends microlearning Learning Objects PLE 262

Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2009

At the same time, we are shifting into an era in which knowledge work and learning occur where re-engineered business processes collide with a participative and interactive ecology of information flows. In a networked, information-based environment, shareholders value brand, reputation, ideas, relationships and know-how.

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ROI Social Networks Network Authoring Tools 66