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Corporate Online Courses and NanoDegrees: Pluses & Minuses

The Performance Improvement Blog

This is good for the employees that take advantage of these programs and good for the economy which needs skilled and knowledgeable workers. Organizational Learning Post-Secondary Education Teamwork Training AT&T Cloudera Google Starbucks Udacity'

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The Future of Work and Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Knowledge workers needed for nearly every job – From assembly line workers to auto mechanics to farmers to truck drivers, jobs will require increasing sophistication in the management of information.

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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

It has received a lot of attention in the past from the thought leaders in the realm of learning and the role of communities in personal as well as organizational learning. Lurking and its role in communities has been on the forefront of my mind for the past few days. There are communities where we continue to remain as lurkers.

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Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy - The Podcast

The Performance Improvement Blog

Listen in on my conversation with David Grebow and Andi Simon as we explore these changes in work, management, and learning. Today's "knowledge worker" is very different from the industrial worker of the past. We have moved from building things with our hands to using our minds to do our work.

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Develop Work Skills

Tony Karrer

There are also several studies of knowledge worker practices that suggest that a lot of what is effective is quite personal. It's always interesting to hear the perspective of someone with a background in Knowledge Management discussing these things. They immediately go from individual learning to organizational learning.

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eLearning Innovation 2010 – Top 30

Tony Karrer

Google Buzz , Google Wave and PKM PKM stands for Personal Knowledge Management, which is a definite passion of mine (see Work Literacy and Social Media for Knowledge Workers ). So, here’s what we are already seeing this year. Interesting to me to see that these pop to the top. But you can be the judge of that.

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Awesome Quotes On The Evolving Nature Of Learning

Learnnovators

Acceptance to continuous learning. Organizations that have realized and accepted this have already started re-thinking and re-aligning their views in line with these shifts around organizational learning. Here are some inspiring insights from these experts: FROM EXPERTS. “