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Too Much Information or a Skills Gap

Tony Karrer

Too Much Information) (found via Stephen Downes ). Information Overload and Learning.” Jonah Lehrer suggests the danger of too much information is β€œit can actually interfere with understanding.” And I think that we need to recognize that it's more than the "Too Much Information" aspect of the issue.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

And the system itself is growing with sites like Social Media Informer. And it’s going to become much better in the new year as it moves over to the next generation platform. I was really glad to see it grow to become one of the Top eLearning Sites. Top eLearning Sites? Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0

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Task, Interrupted: How to Seamlessly Integrate Training into Work

Litmos

Case in point: according to the Information Overload Research Group (IORG) , if a knowledge worker is interrupted at work, it takes 10 to 20 times the duration of the interruption to recover and get back to their previous task. According to Jonathan Spira, author of Overload! All those interruptions add up.

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Epistemology

Clark Quinn

It came up in the Corporate Learning Trends conference last week that one person was responsible for knowledge workers who were, as she claimed, passive learners. This is a really interesting issue, because it crosses several different areas.

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Learning Professionals Leaders

Tony Karrer

Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : Today, active involvement in informal learning, particularly through web-based communities, is key to remaining professional and creative in a field. world is becoming more about your network than your current knowledge. How do I scan, collect keywords, and rescan to crystallize ideas and information?

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Learning Professionals Leaders

Clark Quinn

Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : Today, active involvement in informal learning, particularly through web-based communities, is key to remaining professional and creative in a field. world is becoming more about your network than your current knowledge. How do I scan, collect keywords, and rescan to crystallize ideas and information?

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

open up exciting opportunities for people to access relevant information where and when they require it. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails Corollary: if you have SharePoint installed, you will be using SharePoint a lot more this year. Twitter, Yammer), wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc.