Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Things are moving faster, and this has all sorts of consequences: it means that change is occurring more frequently, information is doubling, our competition is more aggressive, and more. Who is responsible for ensuring this works? In some organizations it’s the information services group, or the knowledge management group.

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Training Train Pattern Performance Support 161

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In my presentation yesterday, I was talking about how to get informal learning going. The point, however, is from the point of the view of the learner, all the resources needed are ‘to hand’ through every stage of knowledge work.

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Wiki IM IMS Network 182

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 11, 2010

Here’s the information: Ten eLearning Predictions for 2010 To kick off the new year, Dr. Tony Karrer is sharing some thoughts on what's going to be happening in the world of eLearning in 2010. and it's long term impact on workplace learning. s impact on knowledge work and workplace learning.

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Predictions Diversity Training eLearning Consultant Association Learning Management System 109

ID Reflections

MARCH 27, 2010

This approach worked well enough in the Industrial Age and the process-driven work culture ( where there was a clear relationship between cause and effect ) set in place by Frederick W Taylor with his Efficiency Movement and, subsequently, in the Information Age dominated by lawyers, programmers, MBAs, MTechs, and CAs.

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Conversation SAP Innovation Collaboration 123

Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers Web 2.0 Applications in Learning Rethinking Learning Styles Understanding E-Learning 2.0 Tools - A Summary PR 2.0:

Social Networks 139

Social Networks Blended Learning Authoring Tools PLE 139

Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

So how then do we measure learning in the workplace? Well, although we can track formal learning activity, it is really not possible to track informal learning (where most people’s learning takes place). Quantity is an antiquated measure of success”.

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Social Learning Social Metrics Blended Learning 199

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I’m convinced that we are all struggling to have our Work Skills Keep Up. During the year, I’ve had fantastic conversations through LearnTrends around SharePoint , Examples and Tour of Different Kinds of eLearning , Social Learning , and the Business of Learning. However, during 2009, I had a bit of an aha moment. eLearning 2.0

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Diversity Training Scanning PWLE Case Study 109

Tony Karrer

MARCH 16, 2009

The Big Question this month is Workplace Learning in 10 Years : If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? What will the mix of Push vs. Pull Learning; Formal vs. Informal supported by the organization?

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eLearning Consultant Consulting Job Management 103

CLO Magazine

MAY 11, 2017

Organizations are facing increasing disruptions, more information is available, and new technologies are making it easier and faster to compete. One realization is that most of the benefits to business are coming increasingly from so-called knowledge work, work that processes information in productive ways.

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Innovation Roles Cognitive Leadership 87

Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

Post 1 People learn their jobs by doing their jobs. Knowledge work has evolved into keeping up and taking advantage of connections. We learn to do the job on the job. To stay ahead and create more value, you have to learn faster, better, smarter. Post 2 The 70 percent: learning from experience.

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Social Networks Social Network Communities of Practice Lesson 83

Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2010

On the way home from the Swiss eLearning Conference, my mind was racing after three days of talking with interesting people and spreading the informal learning gospel. Not quite micro-learning, but a step in that direction. In time, the words will migrate into the Working Smarter unbook. The only thing new is the label.

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Micro-Learning Knowledge Worker Attitudes CLO 46

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Workers at the the bottom of the traditional organizational pyramid are those who interact closest with their environment (market, customers, information). To be effective today they need to be constantly probing and trying out better ways of work. Management needs to support self-learning, not direct it.

Training 40

Training Train Instructional Design Pattern 40

eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 4, 2009

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009 How to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. New skills for learning professionals - Informal Learning , July 1, 2009 Jay Cross response to this month’s big question “In a Learning 2.0 Why a Wiki?

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Social Media Media Social Skills 40

Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Jobs are changing where there is a clear move from role-based work to task-based work, less transactional work and more work that requires decision-making and dealing with ambiguity. Each of these is driving changes in the way we understand that learning needs to happen.

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Performance Support Compliance Training Social Learning Ratio 113

Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Jobs are changing where there is a clear move from role-based work to task-based work, less transactional work and more work that requires decision-making and dealing with ambiguity. Each of these is driving changes in the way we understand that learning needs to happen.

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Blended Learning Performance Support Compliance Training Social Learning 100

Jay Cross

JULY 4, 2009

Informal Learning. Companies should embrace network-supported informal learning because it works better, not because it reduces labor costs. Workshop on Business Impact of Learning in the Real World for Learning and Skills Group in London. Becoming very comfortable working while standing up.

Social Networks 36

Social Networks Friendfeed Social Network Wiki 36

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Learning requires motivation. Sometimes it’s more effective to imbed the knowledge in the work than to plant it in the head of the worker. Modern instructional design needs to focus on creating flexible environments that nurture learning rather than rigid programs that attempt to force lessons into the heads of learners.

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Instructional Design Agile Instructional Instruction 46

Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Microlearning – the learning that results from “micro” content published in short form and limited by the software and devices used to view it – offers alternatives to traditional development methods for workers who deal with web-based information as part of their job. Specifically focusing on OTJ skills & knowledge.

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LearnTrends microlearning Learning Objects PLE 262

Mark Oehlert

MARCH 8, 2007

I think as "knowledge work" moves more toward free agency and companies continually seek to shed overhead, it is going to be the people who can highlight their work and who make a difference who are going to be hired quickly and easily and who will command the most money. From the land of Huh?

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Social Bookmarking Performance Social Networks Second Life 32

Tony Karrer

MARCH 29, 2009

Informal Learning After his questionable call on levels of instructor-led, classroom training in the future, Saul then tells us… More flawed than the analysis of the numbers is the proposition that formal classroom learning will be replaced by informal learning, which will primarily occur online through blogs and social computing tools.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Compliance Training Write Blog 100

Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2009

At the same time, we are shifting into an era in which knowledge work and learning occur where re-engineered business processes collide with a participative and interactive ecology of information flows. In a networked, information-based environment, shareholders value brand, reputation, ideas, relationships and know-how.

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ROI Social Networks Network Authoring Tools 66

Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

Every business decision is made with less than perfect information, and every decision entails taking a risk. Every business decision is made with less than perfect information, and every decision entails taking a risk. Saying “We don’t have enough information” is not an acceptable excuse. Knowledge Workers.

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Business Metrics Director Knowledge Worker 52

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Work and learning have merged. Knowledge work has evolved into keeping up and taking advantage of connections. We learn on the job to do the job. In a time of increased business speed, learning is vital. To stay ahead and create more value, you have to learn faster, better, smarter.

Diversity Training 95

Diversity Training Blended Learning Social Networks Performance Support 95

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Unprecedented changes in the role of the worker, the nature of business, the pace of innovation, the importance of intangibles, the explosion of information, and the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy have rendered traditional corporate learning obsolete. Organisms only stop learning when they die.

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Knowledge Worker Learning Performance Support Cognitive 57

Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2011

Point your smart phone at a QR code, and you’ll be led to a location on the net with more information. In this 2011 edition, we added a more lucid description of workscapes, streamlined the social learning chapter, updated the cheat sheets, and included a glossary. Why isn’t Sally at work today? Workscapes.

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Compliance Training Social Media Knowledge Worker Instructional Design 64

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 25, 2008

To my way of thinking, this is the convergence of knowledge work and informal learning that I’ve been trying to promote. Can Cisco-style collaboration really work outside of Cisco? Its supporters inside the company argue that the global marketplace and the ubiquity of Web 2.0

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Network Social Networks Facebook Collaboration 36

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 25, 2008

To my way of thinking, this is the convergence of knowledge work and informal learning that I’ve been trying to promote. Can Cisco-style collaboration really work outside of Cisco? Its supporters inside the company argue that the global marketplace and the ubiquity of Web 2.0

Network 36

Network Social Networks Facebook Collaboration 36

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

I announced the Informal Learning 2.0 Knowledge workers have replaced factory workers. Information spreading through network connections empowers workers to make decisions and take responsibility for them. Learnscapes : where informal learning and knowledge work converge. Everyone has a voice.

Social Networks 36

Social Networks CLO Mash-up Mashups 36

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 10, 2008

We came together to discuss the future of organizational learning, given such factors as: * economic slowdown and corporate reconfiguration. convergence of knowledge, knowledge work, and learning. increasing democratization of the workforce. pervasive internet infrastructure for social networking.

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Social Networks Social Network Organizational Learning Discussion 36

TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Most trainers, both formal and informal, have the same goal: to make learning that sticks. There are tons of roadblocks that come up when you’re trying to get other people to absorb information, especially if you’re not the subject matter expert. The problem with that is, well, problems.

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