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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

It puts forward lots of suggestions for how knowledge workers can leverage technology to make themselves more effective. I actually think this is some of the most valuable stuff on my blog, and I believe that most knowledge workers are not really taking advantage of this at the level they should.

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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. Throughout the CLO Symposium, people grappled with ways to explain the value of learning to business leaders. In a knowledge society, work and learning are the same thing. That’s no longer the case.

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Why You Should Embrace The Gig Economy For Strategic Advantage

EI Design

Most companies still adhere to a traditional labor structure of employing full-time workers, hoping to find the best talent within driving distance of an office. But, as knowledge workers, we now have email, Slack, Dropbox or Google Drive, and Skype that have collapsed virtual separation. The Solution. Explanation.

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8 Dirty Words

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

CLO online edition. It’s based on the assumption that an elite can figure out what workers need to know, package it as explicit data, and serve it up in a database. Most of the knowledge workers seek is tacit and beyond the reach of databased systems. Talking about training can blind you to alternative means of learning.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

JSB on the roots of informal learning - Internet Time , September 5, 2010 Informal Learning begins with these words: “THIS IS A BOOK about knowledge workers, twenty-first-century business, and informal learning. What will you do about that? What’s that you say? 8220;Training&# ? formal learning of all kinds ? They all go together.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Still More Alternatives to Second Life: More 3D Worlds to Explore - Kapp Notes , April 13, 2010 Here are even a few more alternatives to Second Life for you to check out. Workscaping, part 1 of n - Internet Time , April 20, 2010 Today CLO magazine’s Deanne Hartley interviewed me for an upcoming story about micro-learning.

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The 70:20:10 Model – Today, Tomorrow & Beyond

Learnnovators

Also, workers who provide the greatest value to organisations are inevitably those working with tacit information and making decisions. We can’t produce a high-performing knowledge worker by simply having them attend a few classroom courses and complete some structured eLearning modules. What would be the role of a future CLO?