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

ID Reflections

Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. 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. This makes socializing (publicising?)

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Performance Support in 2015

Tony Karrer

The Big Question for May is Learning Technology 2015 – it asks what we expect workplace learning technologies to look like in 2015. I definitely want to include Performance Support as part of the discussion. We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work.

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Try Before You Buy Tools Used Better Conferences - Response Needed Roles in CoP's The science of learning Learning 2.0 My Top 25 blogs for 2008 Blogging as Reflective Practice The Elearning Apprentice Part 2: A four-level framework for evaluating social network ROI.

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Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant

Tony Karrer

But there was another significant trend in the answers… Learning and Work Converge In a world where Knowledge Work and Learning is Inseparable , finding ways to support and improve work is the same as finding ways to support and improve learning. Isn't that the definition of management.

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50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10

Jay Cross

Post 1 People learn their jobs by doing their jobs. Knowledge work has evolved into keeping up and taking advantage of connections. We learn to do the job on the job. To stay ahead and create more value, you have to learn faster, better, smarter. 702010 Informal Learning Management Innovation Meta-Learning'

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Agile instructional design

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Old-style training enraged many managers because it was separate from work. Why isn’t Sally at work today? It needn’t be this way, particularly since knowledge work and learning are nearly indistinguishable. Most corporate learning today can take place simultaneously with work.

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LearnTrends: Microlearning

Experiencing eLearning

No single definition. Specifically focusing on OTJ skills & knowledge. From a 2008 microlearning conference “There is a need and pressure to learn continually due to rapid change in society and the economy…Knowledge gaps are widening.&#. Current definitions: Microlearning emerges from microcontent.