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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | August 27, 2021

Mike Taylor

But Zoom calls all day are not going to create work environments where knowledge workers can deal with complex problems or create innovative solutions. The key to distributed work is social learning.”. Jeremy Caplan’s latest Wonder Tools newsletter includes a summary of his recommended tools for teaching.

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21st Century Workplace Challenges

ID Reflections

Given that today’s workplaces have more and more decentralized units combined with a rapidly growing business need to share tacit, complex knowledge, knowledge management and social tools need to be built into the fabric and DNA of today’s organization such that weak ties can be converted into strong ones.

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6 Essential Steps for a Successful Digital Transformation of Your Corporate Training Programs

EI Design

Astounding almost everyone, the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated quarantine forced knowledge workers around the globe to socially isolate and work from home. Step 6: Invest in Innovative and Immersive Solutions to Design Your Digital Transformation Blueprint. Create a pattern of testing and learning. Celebrate failures.

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Social media and reflection: marriage or divorce?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

When I am invited to do introductory sessions in organisations, I feel like I'm converting people to use MORE social media, whereas I don't believe it is a matter of using as many social media as possible. I do believe however in finding an optimal use of social media to support individual and collective learning and innovation.

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Learning During Times of Growth

CLO Magazine

Barger’s interesting, and even somewhat controversial, stance about the company’s customer service crewmembers involves viewing these employees not as service agents, but as knowledge workers. It’s the sales people who must convert the interest created from marketing into the demand that will drive revenue growth.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

eLearning Innovation 2010 – Top 30 - eLearning Technology , April 13, 2010 I had an interesting conversation the other day about whether there’s that much new going on in eLearning here in 2010. I’m probably not the best judge of whether there’s innovation going on because: People call me when they want to do something innovative.

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

Training directors see learners; everyone else sees workers or employees.). Knowledge Workers. The knowledge worker’s objective is to learn what it takes to do the best she can. A great industrial worker might be half again as productive as his middle-of-the road peer. These people need the room to excel.