Tony Karrer

MAY 29, 2007

I've been reading a lot over the past few months around Personal Learning Environments and a lot of related material. world that included a post by Bill Ives - Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? Learning-Knowledge-Work - they really are the same and I need to do them all at once.

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Learning Pool

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

While automation and AI will produce many efficiencies – which include making some roles and people redundant – they will also, by transforming business activities, create the need for new roles and new categories of knowledge workers. This may mean up and re-skilling entire workforces. Find out how.

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Learning Pool

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This new breed of worker is hard to find and challenging to keep. To retain knowledge workers businesses need to offer regular upskilling and career development opportunities. Scenarios test compliance by acting out relevant real-world situations.

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Disprz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

fall in the category of knowledge workers. While employees directly facing the customers like delivery executives, restaurant waiters, retail sales reps, etc are considered frontline workers. A drastic change in the learning patterns of the frontline and knowledge workers has been visible pre and post-pandemic.

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Disprz

AUGUST 23, 2021

These companies or their employees are not afraid of change as they’ve cultivated an agile-driven environment. Why learning agility is important for frontline and knowledge workers. An agile-driven environment propels the employees to look at every challenge as an opportunity and motivates them to learn from that experience.

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STRIVR

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Learning by doing helps the learner understand the relevance of the skills they’re practicing in the headset to the job they’ll be expected to perform in a real environment. Older workers aren’t going anywhere and are, in fact, valuable to the workforce. VR is a kinesthetic and multi-sensory learning experience.

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Matrix

JULY 8, 2021

According to the World Economic Forum, less than five percent of knowledge workers did their jobs remotely at the beginning of 2020. An LMS can help independent L&D specialists become more productive and manage their training programs more easily, especially in virtual environments. Studies confirm this perception.

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Webanywhere

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

With Watch and Learn, managers and knowledge workers could easily record and share video updates, eliminating the need for time-consuming meetings. In addition to townhall speeches, Sean also used Watch and Learn for regular check-ins and debriefs. “Watch and Learn has truly transformed our operations at Webanywhere. .

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 30, 2014

What’s fascinating to me is that the city is also home to one of the most innovative open office environments. Knowledge workers can be anywhere and still be able to do most of their tasks. Given the proximity of the city to the design offices of Herman Miller , this was not a surprise. They don’t need a cubicle.

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Mike Taylor

AUGUST 27, 2021

But Zoom calls all day are not going to create work environments where knowledge workers can deal with complex problems or create innovative solutions. The key to distributed work is social learning.”. Jeremy Caplan’s latest Wonder Tools newsletter includes a summary of his recommended tools for teaching.

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Vitalyst

MARCH 8, 2018

In a 1999 California Management Review article, Peter Drucker—who is widely regarded as the “father of modern management”—stated that the most important contribution management will need to make in the 21st century will be increasing the productivity of knowledge workers. Consider the current work environment for the average employee.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 3, 2012

Given this closed environment, it is even more interesting that folks out there are hacking Siri to do stuff that Apple hasn’t included as standard Siri functionality. This can be especially useful for knowledge workers responding to customers or critical situations that require accurate information.

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Instancy

APRIL 24, 2023

AR/VR technologies use digital content to augment or replace real-world experiences, creating a highly immersive and interactive learning environment. Contact us to view a demo and discuss how we can help improve knowledge-worker job performance and business productivity with tailored learning systems.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

iPad (and iPhone) are Much More Useful Than I Expected I didn’t actually think that I would care about the iPad except as a tool for training and performance support in environments like retail and restaurants where it’s always been an issue having access to machines. Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0

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ID Reflections

MARCH 9, 2010

In Informal Learning , Jay writes about knowledge workers as: I like to work on things I help create. Such knowledge workers who are intrinsically passionate about their work are notoriously difficult to find and keep, writes Jay. However, when the work environment ceases to reward this passion , they fast lose interest.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

As we move to an increasingly remote/hybrid working environment, we need to transform our onboarding programs to be more effective in online or blended formats. Onboarding is a period of imprinting, where new employees get their bearings, make sense of their environment and shape their habits and expectations.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 8, 2010

The fidelity between the environment in which the performance is required and the environment in which it is trained and practiced is extremely high. The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. Anything less is not as effective and the performance will not be guaranteed.

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Learning Pool

JULY 8, 2021

Businesses that have large numbers of tech-savvy knowledge workers may be more driven by the employee experience and the need to support self-directed learning. In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations need their new hires to hit the ground running. Onboarding. Performing. Transitioning. Onboarding.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For knowledge workers everywhere, the nature of work is shifting fast. Put another way, half of the skills knowledge workers have today will be useless in less than five years. One app in particular, the generative AI tool ChatGPT, was adopted practically overnight by professionals in a range of roles.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2019

play an important role in LFW by integrating disparate learning paths into a learner-centric environment. learner-centric environment helps today’s learners easily access and consume relevant content in the flow of. with higher-skilled, knowledgeable workers. environments to improve workforce performance.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This hybrid work environment is an open door of opportunity for implementing workflow learning and development practices that enable learning while working. Work stoppage costs for knowledge workers tend to be much higher. COVID-19 forced a physical separation of the workforce. This is the sweet spot of workflow learning.

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Jigsaw Interactive

AUGUST 18, 2022

Says Shannon Heath, senior communications specialist, “Knowledge workers never want to be stagnant, so SAS provides opportunities for growth to keep our employees challenged, motivated, and engaged” ( Monster ). We are all life long learners and if our learning needs aren’t met at our current company, we start to look elsewhere.

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Litmos

MAY 19, 2020

If your team is working remotely, they’re likely already in a distraction-heavy environment, so more interruptions are probably something you’d like to avoid. McKinsey Global Institute found that the average knowledge worker spent 28 percent of their week on email. What does learning in the flow of work look like?

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1978) argued that we learn best when we are immersed in a socially rich, culturally relevant environment. Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) theory has several layers, but the important one to consider is the zone where we are able to learn more with the help of a more knowledgeable other person.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

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. Cost is most often not a factor in a knowledge workers decision about the use of information. How do we foster knowledge worker skills?

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Before that, we need to examine what are some of the characteristics of today’s workplace, especially those that depend on knowledge workers for success. Knowledge workers are increasingly taking more responsibility for their work as well as personal growth. Hierarchy is being replaced by wirearchy.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 26, 2010

I’m not and I gave him the standard advice about looking through LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers , LinkedIn for Finding Expertise , and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers. A colleague just asked me if I knew anyone who was using Augmented Reality for learning. He did that, but didn’t find particular people.

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Instancy

JANUARY 23, 2011

Traditional eLearning and Online Learning Course Paradigm does not Match Knowledge-Worker Needs. However, end-users (knowledge-workers) are working in a very fast-paced and fast-changing environment and don’t have time to find specific information when they need it from within these eLearning courses.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

However, one thing that was very interesting to find in the discussions is that I feel there is a gap between these patterns for using SharePoint and the idea of helping concept workers address the Knowledge Worker Skill Gap and begin to be able to work and learner better. A lot of what eLearning 2.0 They should be at the core.

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EI Design

AUGUST 26, 2020

Astounding almost everyone, the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated quarantine forced knowledge workers around the globe to socially isolate and work from home. Historically, that science in corporate training programs has been applied in face-to-face synchronous learning environments as the go-to modality.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2012

To thrive under these conditions, employees must be immune to the complexities of change, willing to collaborate with a broad range of individuals and be able to apply sound judgment in increasingly knowledge-based roles.

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ReadyTech

AUGUST 17, 2022

In fact, a recent Gallup poll found that 43% of workers in the U.S. Unsurprisingly, knowledgeable workers have become harder to keep engaged with their jobs than ever before; they need more stimulation and opportunities for personal growth in order to feel fulfilled at work. are planning to look for new jobs in 2022.

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Limestone Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2023

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Flexibility and extensibility Web browser platform Aggregation/Mashups Ease of use Several thoughts jumped out at me: The concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools. But, too much structure is not going to work. But that's the exception.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Excerpts from the Best of T+D | 2007 - 2009 Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : As knowledge workers, we are like actors--only as good as our last performance. The peer-to-peer environment of CoPs fosters employees’ natural trust in advice from someone in their situation. CoPs deliver unique benefits to an organization.

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OpenSesame

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Skills have a major bearing on workforce productivity – especially in developed economies where the majority of employees are knowledge workers. So why is it that systemic under-training and inappropriate training methods are commonplace in today’s business environment, leading to skill gaps and a decline in productivity?

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Capytech

APRIL 24, 2023

With the ability to adapt, workers can embrace change, learn new skills, and stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly changing work environment. Workers shouldn’t be lost in this race, however, as generative AI technologies work best when they are used by skilled and knowledgeable workers.

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