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The Skills Gap –  The Correlation Between Training & the Skills Gap – Part III

Jigsaw Interactive

Says Shannon Heath, senior communications specialist, “Knowledge workers never want to be stagnant, so SAS provides opportunities for growth to keep our employees challenged, motivated, and engaged” ( Monster ). So, what are these companies doing wrong?

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

What I wrote more about in 2010 than past years: Text-to-Speech (8) OCW (3) SharePoint (8) eLearning Strategy (16) eLearning Tools (34) Corporate eLearning (18) Knowledge Worker (8) Authoring Tools (8) Voice (15) Knowledge Work (4) Captivate (11) Adobe Captivate (6) Enterprise 2.0 (6) Top eLearning Sites?

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The Advantages of eLearning

eLearning Brothers

The mission of corporate eLearning is to supply the workforce with an up-to-date and cost-effective program that yields motivated, skilled, and loyal knowledge workers. With all of these advantages of taking classes online, it is hard to imagine why anyone would opt to sit in a lecture to learn new information. 1 Jack E.

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Google Glass for eLearning and Mobile Learning

Instancy

With a wide range of useful features, Google Glass has the potential to change the way we learn and train knowledge workers or students in academic settings. Google Glass can share and search for content, detect objects in front, and look up directions or maps etc.

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The Future Of Learning Design

The eLearning Coach

Too often we take something like a podcast and present it as an hour long lecture. Some form of the convergence of all these technologies in one tool will be the future environment in which knowledge workers will interact. Wrong format. Instead, we need to think more like a radio talk show.

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Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008

Tony Karrer

The format of the virtual conference that George and I put together wasn't quite right - still a lecture - threaded discussions weren't quite active enough and the questions weren't focused. 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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[Guest Post] How One Neuroscience Principle Can Make or Break Your Training Program

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

How the Brain Works in the 21st Century As some of you already know, many organizations are idea-driven in the 21st-century knowledge economy. Compared to the 20th-century industrial economy where many workers were valued for what was below the shoulders, 21st-century knowledge workers are usually valued for what's above the shoulders.