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Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

To help clarify this and to begin thinking through implications for Work Literacy Skills , I went back through a couple of different sources. Thomas Davenport classifies Knowledge Work Types in Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers using a variety of classifications.

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Learning from Our Kids In my keynote, I mentioned a Fourth Grade Wikipedia Update. Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Could you please discuss methods for encouraging users to use collaborative methods? or Learning 3.0

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Learned vs. Learners

ID Reflections

I have been deviating from the key themes of this blog, i.e., learning, performance, training and collaboration, for some time now. I am talking about knowledge work here. However, the deviations have been topics that moved me deeply, and I did not want to write about them in a separate blog. But I digress.

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Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant

Tony Karrer

But there was another significant trend in the answers… Learning and Work Converge In a world where Knowledge Work and Learning is Inseparable , finding ways to support and improve work is the same as finding ways to support and improve learning. Who in an organization is responsible for supporting and improving work?

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New Work and New Work Skills

Clark Quinn

In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have occurred and are constantly occurring. A big part of education is learning how to do research and really that's where you learn the foundations of knowledge work. Contrast this with a A Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update.

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Agile instructional design

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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.

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19 Insider Secrets About Selecting An LMS

Spark Your Interest

Giving instructors and learners the opportunity for online collaboration and communication. They diverted the money they were spending on the ongoing maintenance and hired an instructional designer with LMS knowledge. Working together they identified an LMS that met their needs, was easy to use, and only had a modest cost.

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