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PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning

Tony Karrer

I mentioned quite a while ago (in Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion and Personal Work and Learning Environments ) that: Knowledge work is not separate from learning. That's the reason I call these: Personal Work and Learning Environment (PWLE - pronounce p-whale) And there's only one for me.

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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

Mostly, business as usual at work and crisis situations at home took my time and attention. This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. Are you a knowledge worker working from home?

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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

for Learning Professionals Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 Test SCORM Courses with an LMS Request for Proposal (RFP) Samples Training Method Trends Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis SCORM Test Web 2.0 June 1, 2008 was when Work Literacy Launched. 37) Training Method Trends (27) Examples of eLearning 2.0 (26)

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Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008

Tony Karrer

And because it ties directly to metrics that matter to the business, this will get significant attention during the year. Prediction #10 => Knowledge Worker Skills - Just Beginning in 2008, Big in 2009 The discussion of knowledge work skills is going to be BIG. And the barriers are getting lower all the time.

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Learning for the 21st Century

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Workers were then expected to do them; the less variation, the better. Innovation was not a worker’s responsibility. In fact, Frederick Taylor told workers, ‘You’re not paid to think’ Along came knowledge work. A superlative industrial worker was 25% more productive than average.