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Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter

Nick Leffler

Attentions spans are shrinking, nobody can pay attention for more than a few seconds. Just to clear things up, an attention span is that thing that allows us to pay attention to something. You know, when something captures our attention because it’s so incredibly interesting and we can’t turn away.

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Coping with information

Clark Quinn

He suggests: having an initial purpose, understanding the connections, filtering what’s coming in, paying attention to what’s important, and synthesizing what’s seen. I’ve been, and remain, a fan of Harold Jarche’s Personal Knowledge Management ( PKM ).

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The key to informal learning is autonomy

Jane Hart

In other words, instead of focusing on designing, delivering and managing one-size-fits-all training solutions, they need to direct their attentions to helping individuals build their PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) techniques so they become efficient and effective informal learners in a networked organisation.

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The 2 views of workplace learning: L&D and Employee

Jane Hart

Currently , it tends to look something like this: L&D focus all their attention on creating and managing classroom training and/or e-learning. It is now very clear that in many organisations L&D and employees view workplace learning very differently.

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eLearning Innovation 2010 – Top 30

Tony Karrer

In the world of eLearning, I generally pay attention to other innovators. Google Buzz , Google Wave and PKM PKM stands for Personal Knowledge Management, which is a definite passion of mine (see Work Literacy and Social Media for Knowledge Workers ). So, here’s what we are already seeing this year.

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Pick of the Month: August 2012

Jane Hart

” Personal knowledge management is clearly becoming a key workplace skill, and in fact Harold Jarche, in Please tell me about your PKM , takes it one step further … “I think that asking, “ What can you do for the organization today?” , would be a better way to start an interview. With whom do you learn?

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LearnTrends: The Immernet Singularity

Experiencing eLearning

Four technology arenas, 2D Synchronous Learning, Knowledge Sharing Spaces, Web 2.0 Good attention getter–started by showing a rectangle on a dark screen & asked people what it was. Tools and Virtual Worlds, are on a convergence trajectory towards an immersive web future that will redefine how we work, learn and play.