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PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning

Tony Karrer

There will be Social Network Operating Systems that will allow us to pull together our highly personal environment. But, too much structure is not going to work. To me, it does not make sense to look at using one environment (an LMS or PLE) as part of learning and another environment as part of knowledge work.

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Informal Learning 2.0

Jay Cross

Informal Learning 2.0. In the world of business, the era of networks is crowding out the Industrial Age. Network connections are replacing rigidity with flexibility, penetrating internal boundaries and silos and obliterating the walls that have separated businesses from their customers. At the same time, the informal learning 2.0

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Search - Implications on Knowledge Work

Tony Karrer

This post was sparked by a couple of recent articles: Babson Knowledge: How Google Plans to Change the Scope of Googling (And Why Information and Knowledge Workers Should Care). While there is some defense of Corporate IT in that it is harder to get at information that is stored in a wide variety of systems, e.g., ERP, CRM, etc.

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Seed, feed, & weed

Clark Quinn

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. Our approach to informal learning similarly needs to reflect our natural learning.

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Social Media for Knowledge Workers

Tony Karrer

tools to improve your performance as a knowledge worker. One of the questions that always comes up is: How do I find more information to help me get started? The answer is that this information is a bit hard to come by. There’s a lot out there, but it’s often hard to find information that helps you get start.

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Social Media Learning: how to integrate intellectual, working and human capital…

Origin Learning

“Breakneck speed” is a term that can best describe the explosion of data and information in the current digitally-disruptive era. But, what if you were cited an instance that occurred only few years ago, when the translation costs involving the members of the world-renowned body – the European Union (EU) worked out to $1.45

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Dilbert Warns Me About Work Literacy

Tony Karrer

Much of the idea of Work Literacy is to help people who need to keep up with how technology impacts knowledge work.