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Web 2.0 Corporate Access

Clark Quinn

I’ve been working with Steve Wexler and the eLearningGuild on the eLearning 2.0 This is resulting in some pretty interesting data such as the Web 2.0 Tools Used in corporations. Well I can help answer the question about access to YouTube and other Web 2.0 tell us that Wikipedia is blocked.

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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. Learning from Our Kids In my keynote, I mentioned a Fourth Grade Wikipedia Update. Work Literacy eLearning 2.0

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Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

Thomas Davenport classifies Knowledge Work Types in Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers using a variety of classifications. Within that he then defined the following types of knowledge workers: Transaction Worker - Routine, individual, ex. call center.

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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?

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Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis

Tony Karrer

Background If you are not familiar with the concept of the Long Tail, head over to take a look at the Long Tail article on Wikipedia. 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. Time (attention) is much more important.

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Needed Skills for New Media

Tony Karrer

In other words, in a world with Wikipedia, blogs, social networking, etc. - not to mention in a world of Google as the interface to knowledge - what new skills, techniques and tools do we need? Isn't this what eLearning 2.0 While Henry focuses primarily on students, the question is really important to all of us.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Best of eLearning Learning in September 2010. As always, great stuff found in the eLearning world in September. 10 Unusual Sources Of Inspiration for eLearning - The eLearning Coach , September 29, 2010 We all need inspiration at times. But how to write one? These samples will give you some ideas.