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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 Media Learning: how to integrate intellectual, working and human capital…

Origin Learning

Organizations globally, irrespective of size, are concentrating on how to connect intellectual (knowledge), working (money), and human (talent) capital effectively so that efficiency drives growth and brings in economic gains to the stakeholders. Such being the scenario, every dime counts, right? What if such an effort meant1.3

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Concept Worker

Tony Karrer

But, I actually think we should be focused on the emphasis on the type of knowledge work and the type of workers. The person in the call center does quite a bit of routine knowledge work. They will occasionally encounter unusual situations and then need to do more conceptual knowledge work. In other words.

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Cohort-Based Learning (Online) – Learning Systems Hot Trend in 2023

eLearning 24-7

In the corporate world, asynchronous based learning now referred to as self-paced learning, is the dominate form of learning. Are they colleges/universities that have ABL (for the purpose of this post, I will refer to it as self-paced)? Again, I find vendors even in EdTech who are unaware what constitutes SBL. Not even close.

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Skimming and Learning Design

Tony Karrer

Learning Design must accommodate this and I particularly believe that we should Shift from Courseware towards Reference Hybrids – put as little as possible in the courseware and provide well-organized, well-written, easily saved, easily accessed reference material.

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Generation next

Learning with e's

These young people - sometimes referred to as Generation Z, or Centennials - will redefine our understanding of learning, and will challenge the way university education is conducted. The future of work will heavily feature knowledge working, where people will be working on the move, using technology to connect, communicate and create.

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

Jane Hart

Some are referring to this as a “performance consulting&# approach (although even that term is being defined differently by different people). Tom Gram’s diagram (reproduced to the left) shows that “ most work requires a combination of knowledge work and routine work.