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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

We just need to bring back the human spirit into all of the interactions we keep getting involved with. This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. Are you a knowledge worker working from home?

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Share Best Practices - Patterns

Tony Karrer

Dodged that bullet. :) Patterns and Knowledge Work I understand the concern that when you share best practices, you may come out with very different results. In particular, highly skilled workers demonstrate the ability to reflect-inaction (Schön, 1987), to conduct mental simulations as a way of imagining possible outcomes.

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Needed Skills for New Media

Tony Karrer

not to mention in a world of Google as the interface to knowledge - what new skills, techniques and tools do we need?

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Why You Should Embrace The Gig Economy For Strategic Advantage

EI Design

Most companies still adhere to a traditional labor structure of employing full-time workers, hoping to find the best talent within driving distance of an office. It makes sense to insist that employees all work next to each other on a factory assembly line. This new paradigm is optimized for knowledge work, like L&D.

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Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008

Tony Karrer

This will allow more natural kinds of interactions in classroom settings, especially for things like breakout activities. Prediction #10 => Knowledge Worker Skills - Just Beginning in 2008, Big in 2009 The discussion of knowledge work skills is going to be BIG. And the barriers are getting lower all the time.

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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

Strategy (15) PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning (15) Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools (14) Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis (13) Test SCORM Courses with an LMS (13) 90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments (13) Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results (13) Instruction eLearning 2.0

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LearnTrends: Microlearning

Experiencing eLearning

Missed the beginning due to a phone call, but glad to actually hear Janet’s voice after all this time interacting through blogs, Facebook, etc. Specifically focusing on OTJ skills & knowledge. It relies on human-to-human interaction and interaction with Internet media. Relies on peer-to-peer interaction.