Tony Karrer

JANUARY 6, 2009

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. Tilde Effect What epitomizes the situation for me is the Google ~ operator. Our work skills cannot sit still.

Work Skills 102

Work Skills Skills Information Overload Search 102

ATD Learning Technologies

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Faced with a future in which AI makes work even less stable, what is needed is a wholesale transition from knowledge work to learning work. For the last seven years at Grovo, I have studied what makes microlearning effective in an organizational setting. They’re very expensive and nebulously effective.

microlearning 95

microlearning Grovo Micro-Learning Simulations 95

CLO Magazine

MAY 11, 2017

Organizations are facing increasing disruptions, more information is available, and new technologies are making it easier and faster to compete. John Kotter, the father of organizational change, in his book “Accelerate” is now calling for a dual operating system structure for organizations to successfully integrate execution and innovation.

Innovation 87

Innovation Roles Cognitive Leadership 87

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 20, 2008

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?

Work Skills 100

Work Skills Skills Wiki Google Docs 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

Harold Jarche, Michele Martin and I are pleased to announce a new workshop offering that relates to the recent posts on Tool Set 2009 and to the issues of Work Literacy. Work Literacy Skills Workshop Was the last formal training you had on knowledge work skills the use of a card catalog and microfiche reader?

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Wiki Skills ASTD 100

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 31, 2009

Trends in What L&D Organizations are Doing As a result of these trends, some L&D organizations are looking to social and informal learning. In Long Live , I discuss how we are not talking about eliminating instructor-led, but that organizations are looking at alternatives. This will be a slow evolution. vs. Learning 2.0,

Trends 121

Trends Blended Learning Social Networks eLearning 2.0 121

Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

Effective managers make stretch. Knowledge work has evolved into keeping up and taking advantage of connections. The Coherent Organization. These posts offer guidance to managers who want to make learning from experience and conversation more effective. An effective community of practice is like a beehive.

Social Networks 83

Social Networks Social Network Communities of Practice Lesson 83

Tony Karrer

MARCH 11, 2009

One of the common themes on my blog is the world we live in with availability of trillions of web pages, millions of people, and thousands of tools, has meant a significant and continuous change in our work literacy. It also has an impact on Learning Design and Learning Organizations … more on this below. Read the Whole Thing ?

Long Tail 100

Long Tail Design Courseware eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 23, 2009

Dodged that bullet. :) Patterns and Knowledge Work I understand the concern that when you share best practices, you may come out with very different results. Consequences: A description of the results, side effects, and trade offs caused by using the pattern. We also allow them to use alternatives. eLearning Technology.

Pattern 100

Pattern Examples Metrics Knowledge Worker 100

ID Reflections

MARCH 27, 2010

A powerful question also has the capacity to “travel well”—to spread beyond the place where it began into larger networks of conversation throughout an organization or a community. Switch The most fascinating find in the white paper was the following bit of information: Are there organizations that do place a high value on questions?

Conversation 123

Conversation SAP Innovation Collaboration 123

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 30, 2010

With the unknown and the complex becoming the norm in knowledge work, adaptability is the key to dealing with challenges, to be comfortable with ambiguity, and to move to a state where we are constantly learning. Disciplined collaboration requires that organizations be decentralized and yet coordinated.

Agile 179

Agile Expertise Cognitive Collaboration 179

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2009

And my personal experience is that it's pretty rare to run into an organization that is not at least planning on adopting some social software solutions. Once enough people in the organization adopted email, it was very hard for any individual to avoid adopting it. There is a network effect with the adoption of discussion groups.

Social Software 116

Social Software Adoption Adopt Social Networks 116

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Each of these allowed me to fast forward my learning and share knowledge effectively. I realized that a lot of the networking that I had done in person in the past could move online and actually be a much more effective use of time. So, why not look to make this more explicit and effective?

Diversity Training 109

Diversity Training Scanning PWLE Case Study 109

Tony Karrer

MARCH 16, 2009

The Big Question this month is Workplace Learning in 10 Years : If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? What will the mix of Push vs. Pull Learning; Formal vs. Informal supported by the organization?

eLearning Consultant 103

eLearning Consultant Consulting Job Management 103

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

But I'm worried, because while I just got through writing about my concern in Using SharePoint that learning organizations seemed to be making the same mistake of Not Preparing Workers for Web 2.0. Setting up a SharePoint for a community or work team is very different from teaching them about Personal Learning. So, here goes.

PWLE 122

PWLE PLE Tools PKM 122

Kapp Notes

MARCH 22, 2010

I realized back in the late-1990s that PowerPoint had the potential to be an effective authoring tool. Remind them that the visual cues of games, the need to think quickly, the immersive qualities all create an effective learning environment. While the tool was complex and detailed, it held such promise for computer-based instruction.

Second Life 100

Second Life Games Education Augmented Reality 100

Learnnovators

OCTOBER 8, 2015

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.

Design 133

Design eLearning Strategy eLearning Cognitive 133

ATD Learning Technologies

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Faced with a future in which AI makes work even less stable, what is needed is a wholesale transition from knowledge work to learning work. For the last seven years at Grovo, I have studied what makes microlearning effective in an organizational setting. They’re very expensive and nebulously effective.

microlearning 40

microlearning Grovo Micro-Learning Simulations 40

bozarthzone

JANUARY 20, 2009

Here is a piece out of Millikin University on the information skills needed by those entering knowledge work roles. For each information skill, there is a discussion of its significance, the logical skills required for its effective use, and its technological components."

Informal 40

Informal Skills Security Knowledge Management 40

Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Effectiveness – Jay Cross. Navy, many old-style organizations were “built by geniuses so they could be run by idiots.” Organizations that don’t learn can’t keep up. In a networked corporation, there is scant difference between knowledge work and learning. They work and learn in what I call a “learnscape.”.

Learning 2.0 75

Learning 2.0 Informal Learning Informal Cognitive 75

Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2010

Working smarter is the key to sustainability and perpetual improvement. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. The accelerating rate of change in business forces everyone in every organization to make a choice: learn while you work or become obsolete. Workscaping.

Micro-Learning 46

Micro-Learning Knowledge Worker Attitudes CLO 46

Jay Cross

MARCH 19, 2012

About three hundred years ago, work became an organizational matter. Factories require groups of people working together. Orders from the top of the organization kept everyone on the same page. Mayo discovered the Hawthorne Effect, opening the study of motivation. It can also help us make decisions for our organizations.

Authoring Tools 46

Authoring Tools CD-ROM Compliance Training DDI 46

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

To be effective today they need to be constantly probing and trying out better ways of work. Management’s job is to assist this dynamic flow of sense-making and to respond to workers’ needs, within a trusted network of information and knowledge sharing. A New Model for Training. Harold and I are members of togetherLearn.

Training 40

Training Train Instructional Design Pattern 40

Jay Cross

MAY 22, 2013

Effectiveness, Chief Learning Officer magazine, June 2013. Intuitive knowledge. Intuitive knowledge is what Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes in Thinking Fast and Slow as System 1. Intuitive knowledge works with patterns; it knows no words. This is the article as submitted; the printed version may vary.

Culture 45

Culture Brain Simulations CLO 45

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Strategy (15) PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning (15) Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools (14) Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis (13) Test SCORM Courses with an LMS (13) 90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments (13) Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results (13) Instruction eLearning 2.0

Authoring Tools 100

Authoring Tools Social Networks Long Tail eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 3, 2008

for ourselves in order to apply it within our organizations ( eLearning 2.0 - An Immediate, Important Shift). Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. Prediction #10 => Knowledge Worker Skills - Just Beginning in 2008, Big in 2009 The discussion of knowledge work skills is going to be BIG.

Predictions 100

Predictions Authoring Tools Instructional Design Virtual Classroom 100

Spark Your Interest

MARCH 7, 2021

All types of organizations use an LMS including. Stories abound from organizations that have had horrible experiences with their LMS. A non-profit organization with limited resources decided to use an open-source LMS since there was no cost for the software. A medium-sized organization evaluated two LMS. non-profits.

LMS 262

LMS Authoring Tools Compliance Training Instructional Design 262

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Sometimes it’s more effective to imbed the knowledge in the work than to plant it in the head of the worker. 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.

Instructional Design 46

Instructional Design Agile Instructional Instruction 46

Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work. I'd need to know more to understand what would work for the particular situation.

Social Networks 102

Social Networks Social Ning LinkedIn 102

Big Dog, Little Dog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I also had a chat a few days ago with a Wall Street Journal reporter who is researching an article on knowledge worker productivity. I said yes, and mouthed the old Peter Drucker chestnut that "making knowledge work productive is the greatest economic challenge of this century." He asked me if the subject is important.

Wiki 32

Wiki Knowledge News Journal 32

eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 4, 2009

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009 How to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. Personal in Personal Knowledge Management - eLearning Technology , July 22, 2009. One Organization Seems to Believe So - The E-Learning Curve , July 14, 2009.

Social Media 40

Social Media Media Social Skills 40

ID Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2015

We are well aware that to survive and thrive in the VUCA world, we need to be agile in all respects – in learning, towards change, regarding work as well as life. Yet, we are still unclear as to what makes an organization agile. It is time organizations and individuals took note. I wholeheartedly agree with him.

Agile 100

Agile Social Networks Expertise Collaboration 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 25, 2009

Complexity of Productivity for Knowledge Work Productivity is defined as: the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time For some knowledge workers, we can reasonably define things this way. It also causes us to confuse activity and effectiveness.

Productivity 100

Productivity Product Social Networks Knowledge Worker 100

Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

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.&#. Basic goal: make learning more effective through new media. To know if it’s effective. What do we do to help this in organizations?

LearnTrends 262

LearnTrends microlearning Learning Objects PLE 262

Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2009

Networked organizations are reaping rewards for connecting people, know-how and ideas at an ever-faster pace. At the same time, we are shifting into an era in which knowledge work and learning occur where re-engineered business processes collide with a participative and interactive ecology of information flows.

ROI 66

ROI Social Networks Network Authoring Tools 66

CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2018

In fact, insight-driven organizations are growing at an average of more than 30 percent annually and are on track to earn $1.8 The answer is yes — and that means they need the skills to author effective, high-quality insights. Writing effective insights starts with understanding the foundation on which they are built.

Informal 71

Informal Business Authoring Tools Score 71

Tony Karrer

MARCH 29, 2009

Instead, what the common theme was that organizations will likely have reduced the amount of classroom and courseware times. don't organizations already primarily rely on informal learning? And you cannot Separate Knowledge Work from Learning. Different people will find different styles of use that are effective.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Blended Learning Compliance Training Write Blog 100