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Informal Learning 2.0

Jay Cross

Informal Learning 2.0. Some cutting-edge corporations are adopting a new bundle of practices — let’s call them informal learning 2.0 — in order to improve operating efficiency by: • Slashing time to performance. Developing more informed marketing partners. At the same time, the informal learning 2.0

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Information Skills Needed

bozarthzone

I've been doing a good deal of research/work lately with knowledge management. One of my concerns is that the focus so often seems to be only on output: where can we store knowledge? Here is a piece out of Millikin University on the information skills needed by those entering knowledge work roles.

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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

To strike a work-life balance, work from home as much as possible (most of the time). This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. Technology —is great for exchange of information, updates and other transactional stuff. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration.

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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

This isn’t news: things are moving faster, we’re having less resources available, our competition is more agile, the amount of relevant information is increasing, customers are more aware, the list goes on. Not surprisingly for regular readers, I think that the nature of work is changing. I want to argue that it does.

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Future of the training department

Clark Quinn

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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Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant

Tony Karrer

What will the mix of Push vs. Pull Learning; Formal vs. Informal supported by the organization? But there was another significant trend in the answers… Learning and Work Converge In a world where Knowledge Work and Learning is Inseparable , finding ways to support and improve work is the same as finding ways to support and improve learning.

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Tool Set 2009

Tony Karrer

The information in this series has been something I've been presenting, writing, blogging about and more recently doing workshops around. This sounds a lot like a personal learning environment, personal knowledge management (PKM) and personal work and learning environment (PWLE) and PIM. What should be in your tool set?

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