Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Adler's recent article - Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 talks about the implications of the Long Tail on Education. 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.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

I mentioned quite a while ago (in Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion and Personal Work and Learning Environments ) that: Knowledge work is not separate from learning. It's the set of methods, skills, tools that I use to perform my day-to-day knowledge work activities where I acquire information, knowledge, etc.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

It puts forward lots of suggestions for how knowledge workers can leverage technology to make themselves more effective. I actually think this is some of the most valuable stuff on my blog, and I believe that most knowledge workers are not really taking advantage of this at the level they should.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

You need to be able to spot new kinds of opportunities that you might not have been involved in before (see Long Tail Learning ). The idea that workers/learners have largely become the instruments of learning and that learning is not controlled or controllable is something that causes all sorts of culture questions.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 14, 2009

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009. New skills for learning professionals - Informal Learning , July 1, 2009. Long Tail Blogging is Dying? Too Much Information or a Skills Gap - eLearning Technology , July 9, 2009. Knowledge (45). Some Considerations.

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The Learning Circuits

JULY 1, 2008

So, if we have responsibility for informal learning, social learning, eLearning 2.0 , long tail learning , etc. Work Literacy is trying to figure out how knowledge workers can be helped to improve their skills to take advantage of things like social media and new forms of informal learning. This leads me to.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

When information abounds, peers take over. In a knowledge era, workers are the means of production. Knowledge workers do their best when challenged to figure things out for themselves. People who hoard information shoot themselves in the foot: Nobody will know who they are. Here are nine more to ponder.

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