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Insight Curation: Are We Accelerating or Protecting Productivity?

Living in Learning

By now content curation is a well-known activity that is credited for saving time in the search, retrieval and distribution of bulk knowledge/information. The aggregate of “time saved” rapidly dilutes as a function of what happens after the distributions are sent/posted and received by knowledge workers.

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Peter Thiel, College and The Modern Knowledge Worker

OpenSesame

If a student requires more exposure to basic information about a subject, give them access to videos, elearning courses and wiki-type resources that will enable them to build a strong foundation. The post Peter Thiel, College and The Modern Knowledge Worker appeared first on OpenSesame. Image Credit: fireboat895 on Flickr.

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PKM and Online Communities Workshops

Jane Hart

Keeping track of digital information flows and separating the signal from the noise is difficult. PKM gives you a framework to develop a network of people and sources of information that you can draw from on a daily basis. Led by Harold Jarche. There is little time to make sense of it all. Led by Jane Hart.

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Re-imagining Work & Learning in a Networked World

ID Reflections

How do we help organizations see that social and informal learning is not a new and fancy way to learn but an essential requirement in a complex, rapidly changing, and uber connected world? Working adults will make the best use of all available resources to connect, collaborate, cooperate and build communities of practices.

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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

Excerpts from the Best of T+D | 2007 - 2009 Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : As knowledge workers, we are like actors--only as good as our last performance. Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Professionals immeresed in communities of practice have a larger zone of proximal development.

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4 Ways L&D Can Maximize Learning Technology for Hyper-Connected Learners

Instilled

A constant state of connection has grown increasingly common, especially for knowledge workers. Capture Tacit Knowledge and Build Communities of Practice. A hallmark of the modern learning organization, communities of practice can help an organization. Capture tacit and institutional knowledge.

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JSB on the roots of informal learning

Jay Cross

Informal Learning begins with these words: “THIS IS A BOOK about knowledge workers, twenty-first-century business, and informal learning. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning. Most teaming about how to do a job is informal. “Training&# ?