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Task, Interrupted: How to Seamlessly Integrate Training into Work

Litmos

Case in point: according to the Information Overload Research Group (IORG) , if a knowledge worker is interrupted at work, it takes 10 to 20 times the duration of the interruption to recover and get back to their previous task. The human brain isn’t designed to handle context-switching.

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Adaptive Thinking, Deliberate Practice, and Complexity

ID Reflections

The interpretations, however, are mine and any errors in understanding associated with those are entirely mine. Now the question remains, how will this help knowledge workers deal with complex and chaotic challenges that are unprecedented? This post is a summary of the key learnings from the article.

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A Network of Experts: From Content Curation to Insight Curation

CLO Magazine

Before we introduce any other content sources, content curation systems or places to store, sync and share, we need to address the fundamental issues associated with filtering, refinding, rereading, forgetting and tracking. This is where insight curation comes into play.

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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.