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New Work and New Work Skills

Clark Quinn

assuming by "used" you mean converting the first into shelving for my CDs. In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have occurred and are constantly occurring. Most people I know have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills.

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Knowledge Work Framework Tilde Effect Concept Worker Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning Tool Set 2009 Search Better Memory Network Learning Information Radar Remote Collaboration Common eLearning 2.0

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

An executive, a manager, a training director, and a worker each have different but valid ways of evaluating the effectiveness of learning. The need for coordinated action led to working hours, the urban workforce, specialization of jobs, the quest for efficiency, and the separation of management and workers. Executive management.

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Learning for the 21st Century

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Learning is the process of figuring out how the world works. Neurons in the minds of learners forge pathways and form patterns that convert the booming, buzzing cacophony bombarding our senses into the simple vista we call reality. Not so long ago, the logic of cause and effect could explain how the world worked.