ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. Working from home offers me plenty of solitude but not the intellectual stimulation and those over-the-shoulder conversations so crucial to serendipity, ambient awareness, and informal learning. Are you a knowledge worker working from home?

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

SharePoint is so flexible and the documentation for it is so big and diverse, that a big part of my goals have been to understand the different ways that training organizations are using SharePoint. Obviously, there is a spectrum of using SharePoint to support collaboration and using it to publish. Some used it to track bugs.

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SharePoint PWLE eLearning 2.0 Diversity Training 133

Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Navy, many old-style organizations were “built by geniuses so they could be run by idiots.” Organizations that don’t learn can’t keep up. Some cutting-edge corporations are adopting a new bundle of practices — let’s call them informal learning 2.0 — in order to improve operating efficiency by: • Slashing time to performance.

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Learnnovators

OCTOBER 8, 2015

I’m largely talking design here, and I’m fine with storyboards before production, but you should have at least your designer and developer collaborating at various checkpoints throughout the design and development process, and similarly designer and SME having several touchpoints. Having end user stakeholders (e.g.

Design 133

Design eLearning Strategy eLearning Cognitive 133

Jay Cross

MARCH 19, 2012

About three hundred years ago, work became an organizational matter. Factories require groups of people working together. Orders from the top of the organization kept everyone on the same page. Consultant and management theorist Dave Snowden has come up with a framework for management practice in complex environments.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Old-style training enraged many managers because it was separate from work. Why isn’t Sally at work today? It needn’t be this way, particularly since knowledge work and learning are nearly indistinguishable. Most corporate learning today can take place simultaneously with work. Because she’s in training.

Instructional Design 46

Instructional Design Agile Instructional Instruction 46

Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2009

Networked organizations are reaping rewards for connecting people, know-how and ideas at an ever-faster pace. 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.

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