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Sun, Elite, and the future

Jay Cross

At the CLO Symposium, Karie Willyerd showed samples of how Sun Microsystems is preparing to greet the workforce of 2020. Sun is constructing a platform that makes the nuggets available; you can mine for them however you choose. In a knowledge society, work and learning are the same thing. That’s no longer the case.

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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.

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Tapping the Social Grid - Free Webinar

Tony Karrer

A social grid has formed that provides concept workers new work methods. It allows a worker to get help on particular concept work tasks by crowdsourcing in the small - tapping into the social grid for assistance. The methods and norms for tapping into the social grid are often not well understood by concept workers.

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Content as curriculum?

Learning with e's

Occasionally I hear someone saying "I'm glad I took Latin at school", and then arguing that it helped them to discover the name of a fish they caught whilst out angling on holiday. Yet, in a post-modernist world where all knowledge has become increasingly mutable and open to challenge, facts go quickly out of date.

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Investment banking nostalgia

Jay Cross

The Knowledge Web , 5/2000 (Merrill Lynch) “Technology is the driver of the New Economy, and human capital is its fuel. Finding, attracting, and retaining knowledge workers will be mission-critical. Helping Investors Ride the eLearning Curve , 11/99. (US Corporate eLearning: Feeding Hungry Minds.