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Personalization for Knowledge Workers

Xyleme

In this post I address use cases that apply to a high-skilled knowledge workforce. Personalization for the high-skill knowledge worker. Personalized learning has different applications for different audiences. To start, let’s look at the profile of a high skilled worker and view personalization through this lens.

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After-Christmas Sale: Informal Learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

New Year’s Resolution: Use informal learning to improve organizational performance in 2010. Informal Learning is on sale at Amazon for $18.18. Informal Learning : Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance. Improve knowledge worker productivity 20% – 30%.

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In response to: "Motivation is not what you think" by Jay Cross

ID Reflections

In Informal Learning , Jay writes about knowledge workers as: I like to work on things I help create. Such knowledge workers who are intrinsically passionate about their work are notoriously difficult to find and keep, writes Jay. Such innovative knowledge worker is a "different beast" to use Jay's words.

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The Inimitable Jay Cross

ID Reflections

My introduction to Jay had been through his book Informal Learning. Needless to say, it had become my bible to understand what social learning is and could be in the context of workplace learning. In those days, I was just a rookie instructional designer trying to write storyboards and grasp the basics of e-learning.

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The Working Smarter Fieldbook: A Glimpse and Some Thoughts

ID Reflections

Image via Wikipedia "Collaboration is a process through which people who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for the solution that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible." ~ Anecdote And informal learning is hinged on collaboration.

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Agile, Lego and Training: The common factors.

ID Reflections

What does Agile have to do with Informal Learning and Instructional Design? It’s about effective communication. Agile means the willingness to be in a perpetual state of Beta, accepting that there is no closure, can be no closure with information, requirements, needs, business opportunities changing at lightning speed.

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

ID Reflections

Working from home offers me plenty of solitude but not the intellectual stimulation and those over-the-shoulder conversations so crucial to serendipity, ambient awareness, and informal learning. In the absence of such conversations, I have to consciously make an effort to write about and communicate what I do within the organization.

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