ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Will we still continue to speak about learning as an activity to be undertaken in order to be effective at work? How do we help organizations see that social and informal learning is not a new and fancy way to learn but an essential requirement in a complex, rapidly changing, and uber connected world? How do we as L&D tackle this?

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

He distills lessons from cognitive science, social networking, business strategy, futures research, and psychology to boost sales, improve customer service, and spark innovation. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning.”. Conversation was a more effective teacher than school.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

There will also be growth in discussions and social networks for collaborative learning. has fallen a bit out of favor and instead we are discussing these as social and informal learning. Certainly the Hottest Topics in eLearning for 2009 were social and informal learning. As such, eLearning 2.0 Grade: ???? #9

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2018

For most organizations, creating an effective network of experts who share wisdom and execute business actions as a team requires a shift in organizational structure and culture as well as the adoption of a new type of technology. Focus on building dynamic team effectiveness versus building individual knowledge and skills.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. Increase the effectiveness of experiential learning (the 70%) by packing more varied experience into the workflow. Social software facilitates conversation. Serving enterprise customers.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 26, 2009

There will also be growth in discussions and social networks for collaborative learning. Corrollary: transition to virtual means greater demand for help on effective virtual classroom training and for people who are good at creation effective remote experiences. #6 As such, eLearning 2.0 will show continued growth.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

He distills lessons from cognitive science, social networking, business strategy, futures research, and psychology to boost sales, improve customer service, and spark innovation. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning.”. Conversation was a more effective teacher than school.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 14, 2009

This is why I say that Leveraging Networks is Key Skill. I'm coming to believe this is the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. Network Readiness Before you can reach into a network or community to seek conversation, you generally need to have spent time on Building some level of connection (network building).

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

It puts forward lots of suggestions for how knowledge workers can leverage technology to make themselves more effective. I actually think this is some of the most valuable stuff on my blog, and I believe that most knowledge workers are not really taking advantage of this at the level they should.

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Learnnovators

JULY 20, 2015

Learnnovators: In this age where PR has greatly transformed with the power of social media networking, how significant is it still for organizations to rely on external professional PR services such as yours vis-à-vis building in-house PR capability to build brand and customer relationships? There’s lots to be learned!

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Matrix

MARCH 23, 2017

In a similar spirit, Ikujiro Nonaka, author of The Knowledge Creating Company , characterized knowledge-creating companies as places where “inventing new knowledge is not a specialized activity… it is a way of behaving, indeed, a way of being, in which everyone is a knowledge worker.”

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The availability of cost-effective resources to facilitate wide collaboration (including open source software that enables wikis, discussion groups, chat and even web conferencing) presents the chance for organizations to reconsider the effectiveness of the performance support being offered to their people.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A social media consumer, HBS professor, MIT research scientist, and author, McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making.

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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. Most people find this in their social networks (both in-person and online).

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2009

This bear is riding, and he is prepared to use his technology effectively. In other words, he would socialize his discovery with his bear colleagues. Of course, at www.SmokeysBerryBushBusters.com , a social networking site for bears who view foraging for berries as an art form. Where would he do this?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2008

Perhaps start as a passive consumer of blogs, wikis, social networks and the like, but edge forward by being someone who comments, responds, edits and otherwise joins in. You will soon experience the joy of being part of something, an active network participant, and not someone looking jealously on from the outside.

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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

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Janet Clarey

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Google, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia for homework, the school’s VLE/LMS, instant message, text, profile on a social networking service like Facebook or MySpace.). My arguments primarily revolve around the knowledge worker - those who work with information. Keep your own bias in mind. & Fisher, M. Dzuiban, C. &

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Boot camps raise many interesting questions about the efficiency/effectiveness/ethics of knowledge cramming, which I have yet to get my head round. There's been a greater recognition of the fact that knowledge workers don't actually need to know everything, they just need to know someone (or some thing) that does.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

APRIL 20, 2009

Two recent posts got my attention -- Tony Karrer's Reduce Searching Start Talking and Harold Jarche's Effective knowledge sharing. Harold notes the 80-20 funding ratio between formal and informal learning and Will Thalheimer questions this funding differential in the comment section.

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eLearning Learning Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2010

If we give people access to broadband, and they learn how to effectively use the new digital tools, how can we be sure they become digitally literate? A Deliberate and Effective PLE - Learnadoodledastic , September 17, 2010 Thinking about my own PLE in relation to the reading led me to developing my own PLE Model. 8220;Training&#

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 25, 2009

One of the favorite quotes I used to use during presentations was Drucker - The most important contribution of management in the 21st century will be to increase knowledge-worker productivity. It also causes us to confuse activity and effectiveness. Having a well built network is very important to us.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MARCH 3, 2010

E-Learning along the curve: adapting to knowledge workers learning needs - The E-Learning Curve , February 18, 2010 Formally-structured approaches to learning are best deployed to novices in the relevant discipline or skill area. Or why not?

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 3, 2013

The key point for HR, Talent and L&D professionals is that training is only appropriate in Simple and Complicated systems where cause and effect relationships exist, are discoverable, predictable and repeatable. Training focuses on efficiency – Development focuses on effectiveness 14. Clark’s diagram here gives a clear view.

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Jay Cross

MAY 24, 2011

The needed information is no longer in the worker’s mind but it is “out there” in the minds of others. The need for personal, informal networks – to be able to find information — has never been greater. We are moving from the information age (knowledge workers) to the conceptual age (conceptual workers).

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations - Performance Learning Productivity , April 7, 2010 Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations. Mobile Learning (49).

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Janet Clarey

APRIL 2, 2009

Reviewed: Social networking services (corporate learning applications): To identify experts on a topic – most “knowledge” exists in the heads of employees; To reduce the time to find connections and answers to questions; extend relationships beyond traditional classroom instruction and e-learning courses. need access to SMEs.

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Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

Service industries challenge workers to acquire tacit knowledge — the kind of know-how one learns on the job, not in the classroom. Person-to-person instruction is no longer cost-effective. Workers learn their jobs in the course of doing their jobs. How workers connect to colleagues and knowledge.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

Informal learning is effective because it is personal. Now it’s often more effective to take control by giving control, by letting “the invisible hand” self-organize worker learning. The organization establishes the goals and gives the workers flexibility in how to meet them. How workers learn now.

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