The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2015

They need to acquire new information, new skills, and develop new abilities and they need to do this in a way in which that learning will be retained and applied immediately. Information is ubiquitous, free, and comes from many, many sources. Likewise, today’s knowledge workers are asked to do more than just complete tasks.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The reality is that what we did on the Work Literacy course or what I did for my Collaborative Learning Course could easily be supported by the various types of web parts within SharePoint. They focus more on information push and it's less intended to have user-contributed content. A lot of what eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 21, 2009

It somewhat started with my post Reduce Searching Start Talking where I suggest that there are points in our concept work where we need to be ready to move from search to conversation. Yet there is no doubt that discernment forms a large part of selecting efficient and effective means for knowledge transfer.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 20, 2008

If you attended college and used a card catalog and microfiche reader, then you very likely were basically taught how to operate when it was hard to find information. If you were assigned a paper and could choose among some specific topics, you often chose the topic based on what you could find information on. and the list goes on.

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

Many of our digital tribal activities are performed on an informal basis. The tension between formal and informal learning sometimes can be reduced to such prosaic choices such as this. The most familiar social space, particularly for distributed work teams, is the social network. Charlotte, NC: Information Age.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 13, 2009

Catherine Lombardozzi recent post Coaching informal learning sparked something for me around online coaching opportunities. In prior posts she identifies the following elements as being needed for informal learning strategy to be effective in the workplace: Motivation for learning. There's a new level of responsibility on learners.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 3, 2013

Cynefin is a sense-making model – where patterns emerge from the information and data – that explains how to respond to ordered and disordered systems. Best practice exists only in simple working environments. Good practice (multiple good ways of achieving outcomes) exists in complicated working environments.

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