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Too Much Information or a Skills Gap

Tony Karrer

Because the brain has a do-it-yourself attitude toward learning. Information Overload and Learning.” where Kevin points out: TMI floods the brain with data, preventing comprehension and elaboration, and thus, preventing learning. Jonah Lehrer suggests the danger of too much information is β€œit can actually interfere with understanding.”

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Agile, Lego and Training: The common factors.

ID Reflections

Once we accept this, we will not be restricted by traditional program management attitude of defining the scope of a training program and the building to meet the scope. Networking = Learning? Social Media for Knowledge Workers: eLearning Technology (Tony Karrer) 10. It means building more water coolers. Sue Schnorr) 7.

Agile 105
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Workscaping, part 1 of n

Jay Cross

The workscaping viewpoint helps knowledge workers become more effective professionally and fulfilled personally. A sound workscape environment empowers workers to be all that they can be. Workscapes match flows of know-how with workers solving problems and getting things done. A workscape is a learning ecology.

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Internet culture

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I expect attitudes like Internet values to underpin exemplary corporate learning in the future. Peer power : Networks subvert hierarchy. In a knowledge era, workers are the means of production. In a knowledge era, workers are the means of production. Here are nine more to ponder.

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Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009. Measuring Networked (or Social) Learning - Daretoshare , April 9, 2009. I Finally Get It – Why Social Networking is So Important - Engaged Learning , September 29, 2009. or Social Networking &# Skilful Minds - Skilful Minds , March 22, 2009.

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35 Top eLearning Articles and 6 Hot Topics for March

eLearning Learning Posts

PLE vs VLE - Learning with e’s , March 22, 2010 Excellent video to associated with the paper: Integrating Personal Learning Environments into the Primary Classroom and goes beyond web tools, and even personal learning networks. Requires an open attitude to learning and finding new things (I Seek). Social Media (55). iPhone (24).

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Leading Learning and New Skills

Tony Karrer

Kimberly McCollum in The networked nature of information fairly calls me out for asking such leading questions - They are more like a rhetorical rallying cry to the already converted. As fields of practice and bodies of knowledge expand, a challenge for learning professionals will be to change their tool sets from prescriptive to supportive.

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