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The Future Of Learning Design

The eLearning Coach

Organizations invest in learning initiatives because they have a business need; sell more product, keep employees safe to reduce liability, increase market share. Some form of the convergence of all these technologies in one tool will be the future environment in which knowledge workers will interact. Email this to a friend?

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8 Dirty Words

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

It’s based on the assumption that an elite can figure out what workers need to know, package it as explicit data, and serve it up in a database. Most of the knowledge workers seek is tacit and beyond the reach of databased systems. Tags: Informal Learning Working_smarter. Accounting is increasingly the wrong yardstick.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

In the Age of Networks, customers can vanish and knowledge workers cross the chasm in the blink of an eye. Half of a high-school grads lack the fundamental skills required of an entry-level knowledge worker. Workers are learners, and learners are workers. Today, all knowledge workers are free agents.