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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

LMS and Learning Tracking Still Struggling While LMS solutions continue to get better, more powerful, more diverse, I continue to find myself searching for just the right solution for particular needs. For example my search for an LMS Solution for Simple Partner Compliance Training didn’t really arrive at just the right solution.

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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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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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Work Skills Keeping Up?

Tony Karrer

I only use it in about 2-3% of my searches. And folks can probably get along without using the filetype, inurl or a myriad of other search operators and techniques. But, the fact that concept workers claim in surveys to be above average in their search skills but they don't incorporate these operators tells me that there's a gap.

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A Network of Experts: From Content Curation to Insight Curation

CLO Magazine

In most organizations, performance measurement still focuses on celebrating the β€œlone wolf” individuals who they count on to find just the right data to inform great innovation and accomplishment. This is especially true today as we continually search for the actionable 2 percent in the 24×7 flow of incoming information.

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