Tony Karrer

MAY 11, 2009

There's a fantastic post by Stephen Downes - New Technology Supporting Informal Learning. So as you read this, keep in mind that Stephen was primarily talking about technology that can support a Formal Learning Event that heavily leverages Informal / Social Learning as it's primary mechanism. It's definitely worth a read.

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STRIVR

DECEMBER 5, 2023

VR training is measurable, so L&D organizations can assess weaknesses in learning and dial in on an individual learner’s performance. Even when self-paced, VR employee training typically works faster than traditional training because, within this construct, people learn and retain more information in a shorter period of time.

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Docebo

JANUARY 2, 2020

The course was likely well researched and informative, but it’s now out of date. They need to know how to discover relevant content quickly and this is increasingly vital for today’s knowledge worker. Organizations have looked at content curation as a massive tagging project.

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Ninja Tropic

APRIL 11, 2023

5 Benefits of Microlearning for Businesses & Non-Profit Organizations Let’s be honest, the benefits of microlearning for both businesses and non-profit organizations are vast. What microlearning benefits can you take advantage of as it applies to your organization? You retain more of the information.

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TalentLMS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

While technology is empowering teams across the world to communicate and collaborate more than ever before, information is becoming increasingly fragmented and siloed due to the abundance of apps at our disposal. “In fact, the average worker wastes one hour, four minutes daily due to distractions.” What is the no.1

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Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

I am giving below 20 awesome quotes from Jay’s interview : “ It’s not so much that the future is informal learning. If an organization is not addressing informal learning, it’s leaving a tremendous amount of learning to chance. This is a knowledge economy. ”. “ This is a knowledge economy. ”. “ Is that okay?

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Disprz

AUGUST 23, 2021

Why learning agility is important for frontline and knowledge workers. Learning agility is the key to success in a post-pandemic world for both knowledge and frontline workers. Adding the agile strategy can organize and speed up the entire delivery process. . The knowledge workers too are sailing in the same boat.

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Vitalyst

MARCH 8, 2018

In a 1999 California Management Review article, Peter Drucker—who is widely regarded as the “father of modern management”—stated that the most important contribution management will need to make in the 21st century will be increasing the productivity of knowledge workers. Consider the current work environment for the average employee.

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Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A methodology that can flourish under very controlling and hierarchical organizations. A process to be mandated by management/supervisors/organizations with defined rules. The 9:00 am to 5:00 pm notion of work is all but vanishing, at least for the knowledge workers. A mindset that can stem from selfish interests.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 9, 2010

In Informal Learning , Jay writes about knowledge workers as: I like to work on things I help create. I work for me first and my organization second. Such knowledge workers who are intrinsically passionate about their work are notoriously difficult to find and keep, writes Jay. And I can understand why!

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PDG

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This data arsenal includes diverse sources like managed-care organizations, high-touch specialty pharmacies, digital data from electronic health record (EHR) systems and customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, and product registries, industry market research, historical sales figures, and beyond. Affirm Sales Rep’s Autonomy.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 20, 2012

As leaders, we should be thinking about the future, including whom we will be leading and what they will be doing in our organizations. Working online – Workers will find jobs and do their work via email and Web sites and apps, possibly without ever setting foot inside their employers’ organizations.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

This information disturbed me deeply, and I raised this concern with the manager and a few other members as well. Today, as I sat reading ( once again ) Informal Learning by Jay Cross in a distant hotel room in Westbrook, Connecticut, the point on Organizational Network Analysis hit me. and pf course, Informal Learning.

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Disprz

JANUARY 24, 2023

Did you know that 88 % of organizations do not onboard well. For instance, once the candidate accepts the offer letter you can send a message or email saying “Hey welcome to the organization why don’t you start getting onboarded right away”. In fact, the onboarding journey should begin before the employee joins the company.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Excerpts from the Best of T+D | 2007 - 2009 Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : As knowledge workers, we are like actors--only as good as our last performance. If the learning organization doesn’t get into that 70 percent and use social media, they’re going to get left behind. CoPs deliver unique benefits to an organization.

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Litmos

MAY 19, 2020

Harnessing micro-learning — something workers often do independently — may seem complicated from the point of view of an organization, but there are a few ways learning can be offered as part of a workflow, some of which were suggested by Bersin himself in an article in the Harvard Business Review.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

When organizations hold substantial in-person onboarding sessions, they do so in order to generate excitement among new employees, expose them to the culture of the organization and provide an opportunity to form relationships and start building internal networks. The stronger a group’s boundaries are, the stronger its identity.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 2, 2010

New Year’s Resolution: Use informal learning to improve organizational performance in 2010. Informal Learning is on sale at Amazon for $18.18. Informal Learning : Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance. Improve knowledge worker productivity 20% – 30%. It’s $18.18

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Axonify

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

More than ever before employees need to know more information in less time. And with rapid and continual changes in technology and information, they’re finding it harder and harder to keep up. Many organizations thought eLearning solutions, like the LMS, would be the answer to this growing problem. LMSs aren’t enough.

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Axonify

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

More than ever before employees need to know more information in less time. And with rapid and continual changes in technology and information, they’re finding it harder and harder to keep up. Many organizations thought eLearning solutions, like the LMS, would be the answer to this growing problem. LMSs aren’t enough.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Informal Learning begins with these words: “THIS IS A BOOK about knowledge workers, twenty-first-century business, and informal learning. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning. Most teaming about how to do a job is informal. “Training&# ?

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

How do we help organizations see that social and informal learning is not a new and fancy way to learn but an essential requirement in a complex, rapidly changing, and uber connected world? Or will work itself subsume learning enabled by a transformed L&D / facilitators / coaches / mentors and the "right" organizational culture?

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay’s calling is to create happier, more productive workplaces. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay’s calling is to create happier, more productive workplaces. Jay has keynoted conferences in the U.S.,

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Learning Pool

JUNE 9, 2020

Much of the information we read on the future of work in the world paints a dark dystopian view of it, with AI taking your jobs and the needless reliance on actual people is wasteful and prohibited. Will Quantum Computing be an opportunity or a threat to your organization? What are the key trends?

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

. “This is today’s connected enterprise: always on, everyone linked to everyone else, a flood of information coursing through its electronic arteries. All this information and collaboration should make companies more agile, but technology often undermines organizations that don’t know how to harness its strengths.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 19, 2015

Her passion is to help organizations become learning organizations through social and collaborative learning. This includes areas of her expertise from the effectiveness of MOOCs in corporate learning to informal learning, collaboration, community management and organizational culture. How has the journey been so far?

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

Technology —is great for exchange of information, updates and other transactional stuff. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. In today’s non-hierarchical, networked organizations with fluid job roles, conversations over coffee are often how people find out about skills and common passions.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Since everyone still has the same amount of time to spend consuming all of these products or information, they are naturally going to spread their time over broader and broader range. This gives rise to the Attention Economy where the scarce resource is not distribution channels or information, the scarce resource is attention.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This month's ASTD Learning Circuit's Blog Big Question is "How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?" Here are several ways to help sell Social Media in an organization. If people feel they will be punished or “get in trouble” for postings, Social Media will not work within the organization.

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ID Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Thus not only do we lose out on diverse inputs and knowledge, we also proverbially reinvent the wheel many times over and feed into systemic inefficiency. To illustrate this, I have slightly modified Dion Hinchcliffe’s diagram (see below) to show how the process of #wol can benefit all of us – employees as well as the organization.

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Mike Taylor

JULY 26, 2019

Pop on over for JD’s updated take on why your employees aren’t sharing their knowledge. How to Practice as a Knowledge Worker. Tyler Cowen ( @tylercowen ) breaks down how to practice as a knowledge worker and suggests you write and read every day, have regular interactions with smart people, and try to crack cultural codes.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 13, 2015

New learners are self-directed, and are capable of organizing, driving and managing their own learning using the Internet. We are in agreement with Sugata Mitra about not just allowing access to information (via the Internet) during examinations, but also to base the testing process around this principle. We must learn to be creative.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

He describes how our society has gone from agricultural to industrial to the information age. But then he describes how we've really moved on past that to a new age where the dominant value for most organizations are created by high-end knowledge workers working on concepts. He calls them creators and empathizers.

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Think Orion

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Moreover, AI-powered virtual tours provide an immersive experience , allowing prospective students to explore campuses and facilities remotely, contributing to informed decision-making. Curation involves selecting and organizing existing content to bolster credibility and authority.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Work stoppage costs for knowledge workers tend to be much higher. As a learning leader, do you know your organization’s work stoppage costs and how to reduce them? No organization can ever hope to realize the benefits of workflow learning without technology that supports the functional requirements of a digital coach.

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Absorb LMS

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Getting up and walking around, or working at a standing desk rather than seated, should be a priority for desk-bound knowledge workers. According to a study done by the Department of Exercise Science at the University of Georgia , even exercising for just 20 minutes improves information processing and memory functions.

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Absorb LMS

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Getting up and walking around, or working at a standing desk rather than seated, should be a priority for desk-bound knowledge workers. According to a study done by the Department of Exercise Science at the University of Georgia , even exercising for just 20 minutes improves information processing and memory functions.

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