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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

Call it knowledge work, call it concept work, the point is that execution will only be the cost of entry, innovation will be the necessary differentiator. The fact is, our brains are really good at pattern matching, and bad at rote work. Training people to do rote work is a dying enterprise.

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Future of Learning Technology – 2015

Upside Learning

As you can see, by around 2025 that amount should let us buy equivalent of one human brain and by around 2050 an equivalent of all human brains! I share the two graphs just to emphasize that the pace of change will only increase and all our predictions about evolution of Learning Technology could come true sooner than later.

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The Top Six Things Organizations Must Do to Enable Emergent Learning

Learnnovators

When fully realized and supported, emergent learning provides autonomy, mastery and purpose to learners and agility, adaptability and resilience to organizations. It empowers learners to build their personal learning networks (PLN) and personal knowledge management (PKM) by leveraging technology to connect a distributed and diverse workforce.

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Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning

Coursy

They won't, however, be positioning themselves well for informal learning, performance support, or knowledge management. Have a place for learning artifacts of those who've gone before - i.e. content management capabilities accessible and managed by the learner. Tools like Furl , del.icio.us

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The importance of a Knowledge Sharing Culture

Growth Engineering

The importance of knowledge management within organisations used to be a thing that could be easily overlooked. However, with the Baby Boomer Brain Drain phenomenon and the millennial job-hopping trend changing the face of the workforce, the harmful effects of knowledge loss are becoming more and more evident.

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Posts that Influenced Me in 2009

ID Reflections

Why Right Brainers will Rule the Future (LeftLane Blog) What did I learn: We are moving/have moved into a world where all the mechanical, logical, structured, left-brain tasks so highly valued in the Information Age will now be performed by machines, tools, computers, technology. What is Informal Learning?

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Summarizing Learn for Yourself

Jay Cross

Here’s a summary of the Working Smarter Fieldbook : While learning is ascendant, training is in decline, for workers are embracing self-service learning; they learn in the context of work, not at some training class divorced from work. Finally, here’s a summary of Informal Learning.