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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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Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does: PART TWO

Jane Hart

Yesterday, in my first posting on this topic, I showed how “social learning” is not just about a new training trend or about adding social media into the “blend&# or acquiring the latest Social Learning Management System, but a fundamental change in how we need to view workplace learning. Social activity.

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Simulations Games Social and Trends

Tony Karrer

I received some interesting questions (and you know I love questions) from someone doing eLearning industry market research around trends in simulations, games, social learning. This is further complicated by the fact that there’s expectation that learning is going to be more and more part of day-to-day knowledge work.

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

Last week I did a webinar with Mark Sylvester of Intronetworks - Tapping the Social Grid. The crux of the talk was: Why being able to tap into the social grid is important for concept workers. A few of the tools and methods I use to tap into the social grid. There's a recording available here.

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Design for collaborative learning in the metaverse 

CLO Magazine

However, we also need to use it to provide a social touch and interact within a community at large. Learners are expected to find, develop and show their knowledge and skills individually. The SPA benefits (social-psychological-academic) lead to a multi-dimensional impact. Nowadays, technology bridges this geographical distance.

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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

solve problems. In essence, to do the important work faster. Call it knowledge work, call it concept work, the point is that execution will only be the cost of entry, innovation will be the necessary differentiator. So, the important question becomes, how do we get the ability to do the important work?

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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.