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Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

To help clarify this and to begin thinking through implications for Work Literacy Skills , I went back through a couple of different sources. 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.

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PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning

Tony Karrer

Mohamed Amine Chatti (a fellow Eddie eLearning nominee) last two posts The LaaN Perspective , and Requirements of a PLE Framework are both interesting posts and worth reading. To me, it does not make sense to look at using one environment (an LMS or PLE) as part of learning and another environment as part of knowledge work.

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Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment

Tony Karrer

What this has come to make me realize is that for the vast majority of knowledge workers (including myself), there should be no separation between my Personal Learning Environment (PLE), my Personal Knowledge Management system, and my day-to-day set of tools that enhance my knowledge worker productivity.

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Changes in Knowledge Work and Implications for Workplace Learning – The Keynote That Wasn't

Tony Karrer

I was supposed to be in Vancouver right now for the eLearn Conference. The conference has a diverse attendee list and I was very much looking forward to my keynote presentation: Changes in Knowledge Work and Implications for Workplace Learning. eLearning Technology. So what do I do with the tweets?

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Search - Implications on Knowledge Work

Tony Karrer

Desktop search via tools such as X1 will change your life. Soon, these tools will be expanding out to your internal network, your internal systems and basically every piece of information. Keywords: eLearning Trends , eLearning 2.0 , Web 2.0 If the answer is "none". then get with it. Not anymore.

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2009 Top Posts and Topics

Tony Karrer

I’ll also do a post similar to my post last year 2008 2009 that will look at my 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009. To create this list, I’m using eLearning Learning as described in Using Special Parameters to Create Year End Post for details on how I’ve come up with this list. eLearning Technology.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

Twitter is Much Better than I Thought for Learning I used to say during presentations that I wasn’t quite sure about twitter as a learning tool. During 2010, I’ve been ramping up my use of twitter as a learning tool. Joel Harband wrote a series of articles for my blog on Text-to-Speech in eLearning. for more on this.