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Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning Professionals

Tony Karrer

From Wikipedia's description of Knowledge Economy , quoting Peter Drucker (1966): A manual worker works with his hands and produces "stuff". A knowledge worker works with his head and produces ideas, knowledge, and information. What's the most important skill of a knowledge worker? I would claim.

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2009 Predictions How Did I Do?

Tony Karrer

The specific term had some recent great discussion by Jane Hart and Harold Jarche in the posts Social media and self-directed learning , Using social media for different types of learning that included the following diagram: Grade: B #2 - eLearning 2.0 Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 As such, eLearning 2.0

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12 eLearning Predictions for 2009

Tony Karrer

2 - eLearning 2.0 Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails One of the better, cheap support mechanisms for self-directed learning are web 2.0 As such, eLearning 2.0 At the same time, organizations who try to create big eLearning 2.0 The above trends around eLearning 2.0,

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Learned about Learning in 2009

Tony Karrer

, 2009 Top Posts and Topics , Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009 and just running through my blog posts for the year. Each of these allowed me to fast forward my learning and share knowledge effectively. So, why not look to make this more explicit and effective? eLearning 2.0 eLearning 2.0

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Last week at ASTD TechKnowledge , I did a keynote on Work Literacy and eLearning 2.0, an online Q&A Session for the Virtual Conference and a session on using Web 2.0 Tools for eLearning. Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0

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Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis

Tony Karrer

Each person only has a certain amount of time. The average knowledge worker has access to an increasingly large set of information resources and corporate learning is an ever smaller part of this set. Cost is most often not a factor in a knowledge workers decision about the use of information.

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Training Specialist

Clark Quinn

When the question is phrased this way, I'd be surprised if Matthew wouldn't be able to talk to these tools in the context of their impact on personal learning and formal learning. Learning professionals must be adept in these tools so that we understand how they apply to formal learning settings and in a myriad of personal learning settings.