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Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment

Tony Karrer

I've been reading a lot over the past few months around Personal Learning Environments and a lot of related material. world that included a post by Bill Ives - Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? If you make these independent and distinct, it will be really annoying for us knowledge workers.

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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. The peer-to-peer environment of CoPs fosters employees’ natural trust in advice from someone in their situation. CoPs deliver unique benefits to an organization.

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21st Century Workplace Challenges

ID Reflections

This combination of weak ties with complicated, tacit knowledge is what Morten Hansen describes as the Molotov Cocktail, and this forms one of the 4 barriers to collaboration among decentralized units. Knowledge workers are increasingly taking more responsibility for their work as well as personal growth.

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Breaking out of the Traditional, Monolithic Learning Management Technology

Instancy

technologies enable rapid knowledge content creation by not just having a one-directional information flow from the instructional designer or subject matter expert to the learner. There is a big push now to encourage participation from the end-users/knowledge-workers – a community–based learning and knowledge management environment.

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Thomas Davenport and Blogging - He is Wrong!

Tony Karrer

I've been slowly making my way through Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living - How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers. Bill Ives argues that his own blog is really a vehicle for managing his own personal knowledge. But, wow, there was one part that just. well here it is.

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Sahana Chattopadhyay – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Her work with various companies like Tata Interactive Systems, Zensar Technologies, ThoughtWorks and Future Group has given her a width of experience that spans instructional design, workplace learning strategy, knowledge management, social learning and community management, and people development.

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Re-imagining Work & Learning in a Networked World

ID Reflections

The former identifies shifts in specific areas that will and already are having a far-reaching impact on the way we work, learn, communicate, and engage with the environment and society. Loss of tacit knowledge Attrition, retirement, siloed pockets – all lead to the loss of tacit knowledge so critical to organization success 5.

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