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Sun, Elite, and the future

Jay Cross

At the CLO Symposium, Karie Willyerd showed samples of how Sun Microsystems is preparing to greet the workforce of 2020. Sun is constructing a platform that makes the nuggets available; you can mine for them however you choose. In a knowledge society, work and learning are the same thing. That’s no longer the case.

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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

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. In a knowledge economy, the individual is the knowledge creator, and relationships are the currency. David Wilkins in Learning 2.0

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eLearning Learning Hot List Feb 1-14

Tony Karrer

Hot List - 2/1/2009 - 2/14/2009 Posts Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers A Guide to Social Learning What Goes in the LMS? The posts come from the primary sources for this group. Other items come from other sources.

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Tapping the Social Grid - Free Webinar

Tony Karrer

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. The methods and norms for tapping into the social grid are often not well understood by concept workers.

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Content as curriculum?

Learning with e's

How much do children now need to learn in school that is knowledge based? We call this type of learning declarative knowledge, because it is 'knowing that' - in other words, the learning of facts. We call this type of learning declarative knowledge, because it is 'knowing that' - in other words, the learning of facts.

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Investment banking nostalgia

Jay Cross

The Knowledge Web , 5/2000 (Merrill Lynch) “Technology is the driver of the New Economy, and human capital is its fuel. Finding, attracting, and retaining knowledge workers will be mission-critical. Intellectual Capital for the Knowledge Economy , Proprietary Higher Education, 1/2000, Sun Trust.

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The Importance of Managerial Leaders in the 21st Century

Training Industry

When one has all five virtues together, each appropriate to its function, then one can be a leader” (Sun Tzu). With mushrooming numbers of knowledge workers, there is a greater need for managerial leaders than ever before, because these workers appreciate working with soft leaders, not under bosses.