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. 85 percent agree that not being able to access the right information at the right time is a huge time-waster.

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Work Skills Skills Information Overload Search 102

Tony Karrer

JULY 9, 2009

Too Much Information) (found via Stephen Downes ). Information Overload and Learning.” Jonah Lehrer suggests the danger of too much information is “it can actually interfere with understanding.” And I think that we need to recognize that it's more than the "Too Much Information" aspect of the issue.

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Informal Skills Information Overload Journal 102

Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

b) Two days of private, uninterrupted access to a library of popular industry books, courses and related information. If people simultaneously complete the same online training in isolation, most will remember only basic information. On the other hand, too many options can paralyze participants with information overload.

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Social Learning Diversity Training Social Association Learning Management System 49

Marcia Conner

JULY 18, 2012

The world’s technological per-capita capacity to store information has roughly doubled every 40 months since the 1980s according to Martin Hilbert and Priscila López. 900 Billion/year: cost of lowered employee productivity and reduced innovation from information overload. CAGR through 2015. ( 6Trillion: Big data cost. (

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Social Networks IBM Information Overload Social Media 111