Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Using SharePoint before, during and after courses This typically takes the form of sharing best practices, code examples, templates, links; posting announcements; having discussions; showing calendar items; supporting student profiles; supporting student project work; sharing notes, documents; providing course content. were similar.

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SharePoint PWLE eLearning 2.0 Diversity Training 133

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Tapping the Social Grid Date: Friday, February 27th Time: 9 - 10 am PACIFIC, Noon - 1 pm EASTERN Register Here Over the past 20 years, knowledge work has been transformed by the explosion of information sources and information flow. This has caused fairly radical changes in core work tools and methods.

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Social Free Sun IBM 100

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 30, 2007

However, knowledge workers and learners are adopting other work and learning techniques and tools because they support knowledge work and learning AND because they are incredibly easy to use, thus, the adoption hurdle is low (see Adoption of Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 Revisited ).

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Wiki PLE LMS eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Last week at ASTD TechKnowledge , I did a keynote on Work Literacy and eLearning 2.0, an online Q&A Session for the Virtual Conference and a session on using Web 2.0 Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Examples - [link] Web 2.0

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Social Networks ASTD Wiki eLearning 2.0 102

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I’m convinced that we are all struggling to have our Work Skills Keep Up. There was a really great case study by HP during one of the Learn Trends sessions that described how they took marketing professionals from across the organization, taught them some basics about Web 2.0

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Diversity Training Scanning PWLE Case Study 109

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Top 2008 Posts based on Read Counts: 100 eLearning Articles and White Papers Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 Test SCORM Courses with an LMS Request for Proposal (RFP) Samples Training Method Trends Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis SCORM Test Web 2.0 Both were big successes.

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Long Tail eLearning 2.0 100

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 2, 2008

One of the questions being raised this week in the free, online course Work Literacy: Web 2.0 To me, this is a critical part of The New Skills for knowledge workers. And what I often cite as the biggest change in knowledge work skills over the past 20 years is the change in access to people.

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Social Networks Conversation Ning Moodle 100

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 20, 2008

In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have occurred and are constantly occurring. A big part of education is learning how to do research and really that's where you learn the foundations of knowledge work. Finding content was the biggest challenge.

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Work Skills Skills Wiki Google Docs 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 3, 2008

This will increase adoption of Web 2.0 It will also cause us to look more closely at Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Prediction #10 => Knowledge Worker Skills - Just Beginning in 2008, Big in 2009 The discussion of knowledge work skills is going to be BIG.

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Predictions Authoring Tools Instructional Design Virtual Classroom 100

Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2010

In time, the words will migrate into the Working Smarter unbook. Working smarter is the key to sustainability and perpetual improvement. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. A sound workscape environment empowers workers to be all that they can be. Workscaping.

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Micro-Learning Knowledge Worker Attitudes CLO 46

Big Dog, Little Dog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I also had a chat a few days ago with a Wall Street Journal reporter who is researching an article on knowledge worker productivity. I said yes, and mouthed the old Peter Drucker chestnut that "making knowledge work productive is the greatest economic challenge of this century." Welcome to Web 2.0

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Wiki Knowledge News Journal 32

eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 4, 2009

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009 How to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. 28 Web Conference Training Tips , July 10, 2009. 28 Web Conference Training Tips , July 10, 2009. Featured Sources. July 29, 2009. July 10, 2009. Hot Topics.

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Social Media Media Social Skills 40

Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work. And then my use is heavily dependent on what I'm working on.

Social Networks 102

Social Networks Social Ning LinkedIn 102

Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Microlearning – the learning that results from “micro” content published in short form and limited by the software and devices used to view it – offers alternatives to traditional development methods for workers who deal with web-based information as part of their job. No repository (unless you view the whole web as a repository).

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LearnTrends microlearning Learning Objects PLE 262

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Workers were then expected to do them; the less variation, the better. Innovation was not a worker’s responsibility. In fact, Frederick Taylor told workers, ‘You’re not paid to think’ Along came knowledge work. A superlative industrial worker was 25% more productive than average.

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Knowledge Worker Learning Performance Support Cognitive 57

Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2011

Working smarter is the key to sustainability and continuous improvement. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. The accelerating rate of change in business forces everyone in every organization to make a choice: learn while you work or become obsolete. Technology, be it web 2.0

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Compliance Training Social Media Knowledge Worker Instructional Design 64

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Knowledge workers have replaced factory workers. Shareholders owned the factories, but workers own their minds. Information spreading through network connections empowers workers to make decisions and take responsibility for them. Give workers the resources and challenge them to do what’s required.

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Social Networks CLO Mash-up Mashups 36