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Why You Should Embrace The Gig Economy For Strategic Advantage

EI Design

We complain that we don’t have enough time or can’t find the right talent within realistic travel of the office, and yet we’re not taking advantage of how technology continues to shrink the virtual space separating us. This new paradigm is optimized for knowledge work, like L&D. The Solution.

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Horizontal Learning

Tony Karrer

Horizontal technologies for learning. These technologies are supposedly designed for learning but that is not true. These technologies are institution-centric and vertical by nature. Social technologies are different. Interesting post. The concept of Learning Management System (LMS) was wrongly named. Quite true.

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Learning for the 21st Century

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

In fact, Frederick Taylor told workers, ‘You’re not paid to think’ Along came knowledge work. Moreover, as the boundaries between disciplines erode, it’s no longer viable to be the specialist who knows more and more about less and less. Innovation was not a worker’s responsibility.