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Formal Learning All the Way.Baby

Kapp Notes

There has been a lot of talk about formal vs. informal learning in the educational blogosphere and when it comes right down to it, formal learning is the most effective. The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. Tags: simulations Learning at Work Education. Here's why.

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Q&A With Student from King's College

Kapp Notes

I realized back in the late-1990s that PowerPoint had the potential to be an effective authoring tool. Your book, "Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning" highlights an often overlooked fact about video games and other technological devices: their educational value. But the bias against video games runs deep and is visceral.

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The Rise of the Servant Leader

CLO Magazine

During the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, efficient production of goods was the name of the game. In the 20th century, information became as important as materials, leading to what my friend and mentor Peter Drucker called knowledge work. This story illustrates the ripple effect of a servant leader’s actions.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

What I wrote more about in 2010 than past years: Text-to-Speech (8) OCW (3) SharePoint (8) eLearning Strategy (16) eLearning Tools (34) Corporate eLearning (18) Knowledge Worker (8) Authoring Tools (8) Voice (15) Knowledge Work (4) Captivate (11) Adobe Captivate (6) Enterprise 2.0 (6) Top eLearning Sites?

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New Work and New Work Skills

Clark Quinn

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. A big part of education is learning how to do research and really that's where you learn the foundations of knowledge work. How to work with mobile devices and keep them in sync?

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What Agile Means to Me

ID Reflections

Don’t we need to document so that in case a point comes when the blame-game starts (I assumed it would), we have our backs covered? Apparently not because there is no blame game! A dictum like “Just deliver; don’t document unless the document is going to add value” would throw me into a tizzy. There is no one to blame.

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Deeper eLearning Design: Part 6 – Putting It All Together

Learnnovators

And helping SMEs focus on decisions and skills, not knowledge, working with them in a partnership rather than them as a fount of knowledge is helpful. This shouldn’t be (just) how much they like it (though that is not a bad thing to evaluate), but how effective the outcome is. Having end user stakeholders (e.g.

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