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Learning Organizations, eLearning 2.0 and Edupunk

Clark Quinn

If you have a population of learners who have already adopted tools (such as blogging and social bookmarking) for themselves that are different than the corporate tool (the LMS) do you ask them to move? Most knowledge workers are used to thinking about that type of content being created for internal use only.

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Learning Organizations, eLearning 2.0 and Edupunk

Tony Karrer

If you have a population of learners who have already adopted tools (such as blogging and social bookmarking) for themselves that are different than the corporate tool (the LMS) do you ask them to move? Most knowledge workers are used to thinking about that type of content being created for internal use only.

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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. That’s a problem for both learning and the corporate experts. Assimilation of new information is a huge problem in most organizations. This is the crux of the problem for me right now.

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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

Active lurkers also include those people who may visit a customer support community and find a solution to their problem without contributing to the community. Those people derive a lot of value from that community interaction and so does your company since they do not clog up your customer call center. This happens due to various reasons.

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The Future Of Learning Design

The eLearning Coach

Karl: The biggest problem is that in the learning field we sometimes get seduced by the technology and forget the underlying learning need and, even more importantly, the underlying business need. Some form of the convergence of all these technologies in one tool will be the future environment in which knowledge workers will interact.

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work. I suggest that they have a recruiting problem. Facebook is far more social.

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

Tagging/Bookmarking - described how they worked; relatively low adoption but may increase as more LMSs include. information/knowledge workers. Find opportunities where social learning technologies will foster learning. Social bookmarking in the enterprise. To create a place for informal learning.