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

Jigsaw Interactive

According to a Training Magazine report, U.S. 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 ). The same idea holds true for upskilling employees when things change.

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List to Learn, Learn to List

Kapp Notes

I don't totally agree that work and learning are exactly the same, there is some overlap but there are specific things workers need to learn that do not result in a direct work product. It would be great for the worker to learn to write more efficient reports but learning to do so is not a work product.

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Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning Professionals

Tony Karrer

From Wikipedia's description of Knowledge Economy , quoting Peter Drucker (1966): A manual worker works with his hands and produces "stuff". A knowledge worker works with his head and produces ideas, knowledge, and information. What's the most important skill of a knowledge worker? I would claim.

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Curation: Multi-cycle Support for Learning

CLO Magazine

User content and knowledge: Workers want to watch or read what their peers say about almost every topic. Organize it with tabs, chapters, even instant mini-assessments to help the learner jump ahead to their new and needed segments. Give them a choice to see these now or on their own time later.

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35 Top eLearning Articles and 6 Hot Topics for March

eLearning Learning Posts

Social Media for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , March 30, 2010 Lot s of information on different social media tools that knowledge workers should know about. It is imperative that an assessment item actually measure knowledge and potential performance. Social Media (55). iPhone (24).

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Chief Learning Officer magazine , Effectiveness, April 2009. In a knowledge era, workers are the means of production. Knowledge workers do their best when challenged to figure things out for themselves. Rich niches imply a need to assess upside opportunities more closely than out-of-pocket costs.

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Jay Cross – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

I reflected on how I had acquired my own professional skills: watching master performers, trial and error, bull sessions with friends, faking it, reading magazines… doing what I didn’t know how to do in order to learn it. Then I want the L&D manager to go back to the manager, assess the results, and figure out how to do better next time.