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Peter Thiel, College and The Modern Knowledge Worker

OpenSesame

While Thiel’s fellowship is a good approach for potential tech entrepreneurs, it’s a narrow solution for a broader problem: A college education has become a prerequisite for a job in the modern economy, but a college education is not the best preparation for the a job in the modern economy. A Different Kind of College Degree.

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From Learning Management to Personal Knowledge Management

Jane Hart

If you want to grow as a person and a worker and if you want to gain skills that will help you take that next step in your career, you’ll probably have to learn those skills on your own. “ This is a quote from a recent article in Lifehacker, Three ways to learn something new.

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The Future of Work and Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

It’s fun but risky to speculate about the future of work and learning. Co-working is more about community than entrepreneurism, although it is some of both. Lifelong learningWorkers need to be learning continually because of a world that is constantly changing. The world is changing so fast.

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Free learning & development webinars for December 2023

Limestone Learning

Perfect for learning and development (L&D) knowledge workers and educators, there’ll be discussions about the keys to transforming the challenges of digital workspaces into opportunities for growth and well-being. You’ll explore learning trends such as: Creating skill-oriented infrastructures.

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Social Learning: what actually is it?

Jane Hart

Following my last post Social Learning: Are you starting from the right place , I was asked to explain what “social learning” actually is in an organizational context. If you haven’t yet come across The New Social Learning book (by Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham), this is a must-read.

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Asana’s Joshua Zerkel reveals the secret to truly working smarter, not harder

TalentLMS

As the Head of Global Community at Asana, Joshua Zerkel is no stranger to the realities of what distractions at work and a lack of productivity look like. “In fact, the average worker wastes one hour, four minutes daily due to distractions.” Here’s what he had to say: So much time spent, so little work done. What is the no.1

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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

Excerpts from the Best of T+D | 2007 - 2009 Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : As knowledge workers, we are like actors--only as good as our last performance. Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Professionals immeresed in communities of practice have a larger zone of proximal development.