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Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

Thomas Davenport classifies Knowledge Work Types in Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers using a variety of classifications. Within that he then defined the following types of knowledge workers: Transaction Worker - Routine, individual, ex. call center.

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2009 Predictions How Did I Do?

Tony Karrer

The specific term had some recent great discussion by Jane Hart and Harold Jarche in the posts Social media and self-directed learning , Using social media for different types of learning that included the following diagram: Grade: B #2 - eLearning 2.0 Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 As such, eLearning 2.0

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ASTD TechKnowledge

Tony Karrer

Session Hopping a Practical Guide General Session - New Work Literacies and E-Learning 2.0 These changes are continuously transforming the landscape for knowledge work. How are we doing at keeping up with these changes? We will look over the shoulder of a modern knowledge worker using e-learning 2.0

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Last week at ASTD TechKnowledge , I did a keynote on Work Literacy and eLearning 2.0, an online Q&A Session for the Virtual Conference and a session on using Web 2.0 Tools for eLearning. Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0 eLearning 2.0

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12 eLearning Predictions for 2009

Tony Karrer

2 - eLearning 2.0 Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails One of the better, cheap support mechanisms for self-directed learning are web 2.0 As such, eLearning 2.0 At the same time, organizations who try to create big eLearning 2.0 The above trends around eLearning 2.0,

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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

It's always interesting to look back at the past year - 2008, think about what has changed for me during the year, and think about what that means for the next year - 2009. Top 2008 Posts based on Read Counts: 100 eLearning Articles and White Papers Free - Web 2.0 37) Training Method Trends (27) Examples of eLearning 2.0 (26)

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Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis

Tony Karrer

The average knowledge worker has access to an increasingly large set of information resources and corporate learning is an ever smaller part of this set. Cost is most often not a factor in a knowledge workers decision about the use of information. They look to eLearning approaches to lower distribution costs.

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