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Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

To help clarify this and to begin thinking through implications for Work Literacy Skills , I went back through a couple of different sources. Thomas Davenport classifies Knowledge Work Types in Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers using a variety of classifications.

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Personal Learning Tools and Technologies

Tony Karrer

Jane Hart has done a great job collecting individual answers to what learning tools and technologies that people use. And I also sympathize with the "no its personal" beat down he took. I ran back through some previous discussions on PLEs and found that much of it focuses on tools and technology. More important are the methods.

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PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning

Tony Karrer

His requirements for a PLE Framework include: Personalization Social features Social filtering I ncorporate various Web 2.0 concepts and technologies (mashups, widgets, aggregation, OpenID, RSS, etc.) The concept of a Personal Learning Environment Framework gets it even farther from some actual system. But that's the exception.

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Design for collaborative learning in the metaverse 

CLO Magazine

Nowadays, technology bridges this geographical distance. Learners are expected to find, develop and show their knowledge and skills individually. However, it is not possible for a person to master everything independently. Working in a group enhances problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

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Augmenting Human Intellect: Vale Doug Engelbart

Clark Quinn

He realized that the problems the world was facing were growing exponentially, and that our only hope was to learn at a similarly exponential rate, and decided that helping humans accomplish this goal was a suitable life’s work. design meta-learning social strategy technology' A real role model. Rest in peace, Doug.

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2009 Top Posts and Topics

Tony Karrer

Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank eLearning Portal Integration Data Driven Notable Topics for 2009 Work Skills and Knowledge Work Work Skills Keeping Up? eLearning Technology. I’m including posts from December 2008.

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Generation next

Learning with e's

The lecture in a tiered amphitheatre to large groups of students remains the norm, and undergraduates are expected to learn mainly by listening and reading, before sitting examinations or writing lengthy essays to test their knowledge. The guardians of this knowledge are the academics. Unported License.