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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Learning from Our Kids In my keynote, I mentioned a Fourth Grade Wikipedia Update. Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0 How does this apply to non-knowledge workers? But I also see things that I feel need to be addressed.

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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. The employee goes to Google, dives into Wikipedia and other open source efforts. I think my question to Tony is - Are you sure that it is formal learning programs that are required.

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Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant

Tony Karrer

Well not quite, but it is pretty dang close to the definition of Management Consulting in Wikipedia: Management consulting refers to both the industry of, and the practice of, helping organizations improve their performance, primarily through the analysis of existing business problems and development of plans for improvement.

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Bob Little – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

In reality this has been part of mainstream working practice for many knowledge workers since the 1990s. Open content is a growing feature of the market, as people search for information, knowledge and learning that they need in order to complete a specific task.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

11 Free Game Creation Software Programs (At least for 30 Days) - Kapp Notes , September 8, 2010 If you are thinking of creating an educational game but don’t want to invest a lot of money, you can try out these free software programs (or free for 30 days in some cases), some are 2D and some are 3D. What’s that you say?

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How to Set Up a Successful Online Learning Business

Instancy

Simply put, blended Learning can be described as a learning program where more than one delivery mode is being used with the objective of optimizing the learning outcome and cost of program delivery. That’s just the beginning of creating a blended learning curriculum and courses.

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Working Smarter eFieldbook $12

Jay Cross

By contrast, instructional designers are accustomed to building new programs from the ground up, like architects who begin by chopping down trees and leveling contours so they can plan from a blank sheet of paper. Industrial age workers created value in factories. Knowledge workers create value in workscapes. Océ 346.