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LearnTrends: Personal Knowledge Management

Experiencing eLearning

PKM is a set of problem-solving skills for work, focused on getting things done but not necessarily task focused. I asked if that included open source tools too–basically he trusts libre tools but not gratis ones. Social bookmarks are an easy first step–lots of people can have a purpose for this.

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Develop Work Skills

Tony Karrer

That said, I think there is a tendency to lean on the skills that we are good at and not use other approaches when they are called for. The employee goes to Google, dives into Wikipedia and other open source efforts. Social bookmarking, searching browsing trails, capture of communications as clues to expertise.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Thousands of people at IBM are already doing it.

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Passively Multiplayer Online Game (PMOG) | Main | "New study examines how online games can teach business skills" (Red Herring) » June 28, 2007 Thousands of people at IBM are already doing it. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Using the Company as the Classroom" (Business Week)

Mark Oehlert

Despite this investment, the reality is that training and coursework account for only a small percentage—around 10%, according to the CCL studies—of the knowledge that managers and executives need in order to develop critical skills." Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "U.S. Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think" (WIRED)

Mark Oehlert

military intelligence agency has come up with a new tool for teaching recruits critical thinking skills: videogames. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us The Lewin Links This link should take you to the page I have on del.icio.us Now the top U.S. books futures Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Good for introNetworks!

Mark Oehlert

Million in Series A Funding I know the folks at introNetworks, Mark Sylvester and Guy Nadivi in particular, Ive used their product a couple of times now (for a conference and as a skills database) and Ive always been impressed with the product and important their willingness to work with folks on customizing it to your needs.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Quote of the Day: James Gee and Learningq

Mark Oehlert

This is so, in part, because the views about thinking current in cognitive science stress the importance of active inquiry and deep conceptual understanding, things that are not politically popular any longer in schools, driven as they are today by standardized tests and skill-and-drill curricula devoted to the basics."