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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

A lurker might very well be giving back by performing better at their jobs, by sharing insights with others in the context of their daily work by using the learning gleaned from lurking. No one can see the engrossed look on my face when I read discussion threads in the Learning and Skills group. This happens due to various reasons.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. Training was simpler when the world was predictable, progress was slow, and the task was teaching people how to do their jobs. People need to learn on the job, not apart from it.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

Corporate learning and KM are both about getting the job done. Practical ways of influencing educational needs, as well as enterprise strategies, are highlighted as the solutions for knowledge worker evolution are considered. People already share knowledge within the enterprise.

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

information/knowledge workers. Find opportunities where social learning technologies will foster learning. Distance learning—Social software’s killer ap? Creating Social Presence in Online Environments, New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2003), p.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Service industries challenge workers to acquire tacit knowledge — the kind of know-how one learns on the job, not in the classroom. Frederick Taylor promoted Scientific Management, and training’s mission evolved from how to do the job into how to do the job more efficiently. Internal job aids.