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Work Skills Keeping Up?

Tony Karrer

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. Our work skills cannot sit still. We are struggling to keep up.

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7 Tips To Assess Performance And Skill Gaps In Virtual Training Bootcamps

eLearning Industry

To make the best use of digital bootcamps for skilling and workforce development in your enterprise, it’s important to use the right tools to understand what skills you need to focus on and whom in your workforce you should target for skill development. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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What Is Workforce Development and Why Is It Important?

KnowledgeAnywhere

It's tailored to fit the unique needs of your organization and its employees, ensuring that the skills being developed are directly applicable to the challenges and opportunities your business faces. These institutions provide theoretical knowledge and practical skills that are crucial for workforce development.

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Work Literacy Skills - New Workshop

Tony Karrer

Harold Jarche, Michele Martin and I are pleased to announce a new workshop offering that relates to the recent posts on Tool Set 2009 and to the issues of Work Literacy. Work Literacy Skills Workshop Was the last formal training you had on knowledge work skills the use of a card catalog and microfiche reader?

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Too Much Information or a Skills Gap

Tony Karrer

tools that I often use in my presentations. All of these represent potential metacognitive tools and methods. It's really that we need to adapt to new methods and tools. It's a big skills, knowledge, performance gap – see Work Skills Keeping Up. It's why I created Work Literacy about a year ago.

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2009 Top Posts and Topics

Tony Karrer

I’ll also do a post similar to my post last year 2008 2009 that will look at my 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009. To create this list, I’m using eLearning Learning as described in Using Special Parameters to Create Year End Post for details on how I’ve come up with this list. eLearning Technology.

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Enough Tools for Now

Tony Karrer

The basic gist of the email could be summarized as: Don’t we have enough tools for now? We are already swimming in tools and new tools arrive faster than we can understand them much less try them. It seems somehow reasonable to simply say, let’s stop looking at new tools for a while and just get better with what we already have.

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