Join us to explore new developments, track emerging opportunities, and network with learning pioneers.” There ... - Presentation The past 20 years has seen a remarkable change in the landscape for knowledge work and learning ... :30am to 12:30pm - Online Dave Pollard is well known for his work in knowledge management and knowledge worker ... I will be attending the free, online conference, Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 , at Ning.com ... of the learning industry, you should join the conversation .  Can you really afford to miss this free ...

Fitness for Peak Health and Performance Dave Gray: Visual Literacy, Learning Innovation Kevin Wheeler: The Future of Talent Dave Pollard - Working Smarter: Improving the personal productivity of knowledge workers. Dave Wilkins - The Amazon Model and Forum Model - the intersection of LMS and Learning 2.0 Jane Hart - 25 Free Tools Every Learning Professional Should Have in their Toolbox Mark Sylvester - Social Networking as a Strategic Part of Your Learning ... Learning: Trends and Innovation 2008 November 17 - 21, 2008 | Online | Free Last year's conference had two ...

March 8, 2006 VisualComplexity - Manuel Lima A unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. Readers of this blog will proably be most interested in the visualizations of knowledge networks . Video Literacy - Michael Fieldstein Take a look at this satirical rendition of how Microsoft would design the iPod box. And while you are watching it, imagine that it is a student-submitted video compare/contrast assignment ... aspiring knowledge workers - Corante A bibliography of books for the knowledge worker. How to be an ...

Knowledge Workers, work and learning are the same, so how does a to-learn list really differ from a to-do list? How are ... and learning are exactly the same, there is some overlap but there are specific things workers need to learn that do not result in a direct work product. For example, a knowledge worker may need to learn how to write a report more ... to-learn list. What skills, practices, behaviors do modern knowledge workers need around to-learn lists? First, the ... the worker to learn to write more efficient reports but learning to do so is not a work product. The products ...

One of the questions being raised this week in the free, online course Work Literacy: Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals is how social networks impact personal learning. To me, this is a critical part of The New Skills for knowledge workers. And what I often cite as the biggest change in knowledge work skills over the past 20 years is the change in ... went over to check my email, and learned that someone replied within the past 15 minutes, and gave me the most complete ... answered my question, 20 hours after I asked it. And I just learned about ning for the first time yesterday! I am ...

... is becoming more about your network than your current knowledge. Gina Minks: Adventures in Corporate Education What Competencies do Knowledge Workers Need? How can you design with these new tools if you don't understand them? How can you ... On this month's Big Question - Lead the Charge - we are already seeing some interesting responses. The Learning ... interesting thoughts in the post, but also Most learning professionals can only do so much. There's a vacuum of leadership in the adoption of enterprise/web/learning 2.0 tools from learning professionals in senior positions and too ...

... disseminating good content, if it ever was. Enabling learning is about being a learner yourself, sharing your knowledge and ... of knowledge expand, a challenge for learning professionals will be to change their tool sets from prescriptive to supportive. Gina Minks: Adventures in Corporate Education What Competencies do Knowledge Workers Need? How can you design ... organisation, and this is open to question when you're looking beyond knowledge workers. Assuming it is appropriate ... to apply social networks to improve organizational performance is a prerequisite for shaping learning and ...

Dave Pollard - Working Smarter: Improving the personal productivity of knowledge workers. Dave Wilkins - The Amazon ... Professional Should Have in their Toolbox Mark Sylvester - Social Networking as a Strategic Part of Your Learning Strategy ... . November 17-21, 2008 | Online | Free Come to Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 if you want to ... sessions  anywhere with net access (this is entirely online) track emerging opportunities in learning (if it’s not ... to gain insight into what's going on, swap opinions, and shape the future of corporate learning. Structure?

Discussion and Personal Work and Learning Environments ) that: Knowledge work is not separate from learning. Yes, there are times that Knowledge Workers will step away from day-to-day activities to go do developmental learning ... knowledge work. That's the reason I call these: Personal Work and Learning Environment (PWLE - pronounce p-whale) And ... Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools. The concept of a Personal Learning Environment Framework gets it even farther from some actual system. There will ...

Peter Drucker (1966): A manual worker works with his hands and produces "stuff". A knowledge worker works with his head and produces ideas, knowledge, and information. Whats the most important skill of a knowledge worker? I would claim... The most important skills of a knowledge worker are learning skills. I would also suggest that learning skills are ... interesting to students. As a worker in the eleaning sector, I also believe that personalised and networked methods of teaching ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ...

... capabilities, it likely is fine for an LMS to provide these and for learning organizations to use them. Most knowledge ... ongoing learning and networking tool, then you are doing a disservice to learners if you show them only internal tools ... ideology that DIY learning and repurposing content is the way to go (and somewhat the ONLY way to go). Janet juxtaposes the recent inclusion of eLearning 2.0 type tools in Learning Management Systems against the philosophy that ... use of social media in commercial learning management systems is an assault on the very philosophy of learning ...

... results are in, and most knowledge workers are struggling to adapt to new forms of work and learning. This situation ... and responsibilities of learning professionals. We will look over the shoulder of a modern knowledge worker using e-learning 2.0 methods to see examples of where and how tools such as social networks, social bookmarking, wikis, blogs, and RSS readers fit into day-to-day knowledge work and larger learning solutions. Tony will also discuss the big picture ... Learning 2.0 - a shift in the way that knowledge workers work and learn. Personal, collaborative, and informal learning ...

... accumulated honey doos at home 2.) Catalog and collect my thoughts from last weeks e-learning dev conference in San ... working with a "Linked In" page which is a business related social networking web. My point is this. Almost all of this ... informal networks. My question is simply this. Does all of the aforementioned technological capability make a person ... of these technologies make information distribution more efficient but can I take a basically anti-social knowledge worker and create an environment that makes them more social via technology than would otherwise be possible? I ...

... understand about eLearning 2.0 is that it is an immediately applicable and important shift in learning that applies right here and right now for most knowledge workers. Adopting a practice like blogging as a personal learning and networking tool or adopting Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools as a means to support collaborative work teams is something that is an immediate and important shift for knowledge workers - and that's you! The bottom line ... applications to support work and learning in new, powerful ways.

... available to the knowledge worker. This firewall attitude keeps people from innovating themselves, it keeps them from ... knowledge worker you rely on trustful information. This trust is based on human thinking: mouth to mouth recommendation ... peers. Connecting to people that have a foot in different networks insures interdisciplinary knowledge and creativity (the ... - cool stuff. conclusion human networks are essential if we want to get to knowledge quickly and if we want to stay ... worker. as a knowledge worker you need to be resourceful. make up new 'water cooler' meeting places.

Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers. It's quite a good book, and I really like how Davenport structures his positions ... Learning and Networking tool. I agree with Bill Ives that a blog, properly used, can become an integral part of your personal work and learning environment. Also there's some irony here. Later in the book, Davenport discusses the ... managing his own personal knowledge. If this particular use of blogs caught on broadly, it could represent a new approach to organizational knowledge management. Yikes! This tool has "detracted from productivity." It's interesting ...

... most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap . This makes this things like: Network Feedback , F inding expertise ... sensitivity to the need for concept workers to reach out to people for knowledge work tasks in order to ensure they will receive a ... ." There's a beauty in this! But it does require better ability to reach into networks for help. Learning Trends 2008 ... I've recently been talking to people about evaluating performance of Concept Workers . I want to thank Dave who has provided thoughts in several posts such as Getting to Exemplary . Evaluating concept worker performance is ...

... out of the industrial age and into the network era. Knowledge workers have replaced factory workers. Ideas and ... spreading through network connections empowers workers to make decisions and take responsibility for them. Collaboration ... from training workers to helping customers and workers learn from one another. IBM’s Global 2008 CEO Study ... to apply social networks to improve organizational performance is a prerequisite for shaping learning and development from here on out. People who are illiterate in network technology need not apply. The learning organization should ...

... of us. In other words, in a world with Wikipedia, blogs, social networking, etc. - not to mention in a world of Google as the interface to knowledge - what new skills, techniques and tools do we need? In looking at similar skills but with a slant towards the skills that knowledge workers need, I might rephrase them into the following list: Work ... with tools that expand mental capacities Collective Intelligence â€" the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes ... modalities Networking â€" the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information Negotiation â€" the ability ...

... trying to figure out how knowledge workers can be helped to improve their skills to take advantage of things like social ... ? Harold Jarche - Skills 2.0 Gina Minks: Adventures in Corporate Education What Competencies do Knowledge Workers Need ... McCollum: The networked nature of information Tony Karrer - Leading Learning and New Skills ... in the 21st century, developing your own networks in parallel with your students. You need to demonstrate continual learning, lifelong learning - for your students, or you will continue to teach your students how to be successful in an ...

21st century, developing your own networks in parallel with your students. You need to demonstrate continual learning, lifelong learning - for your students, or you will continue to teach your students how to be successful in an age that no ... figure out how knowledge workers can be helped to improve their skills to take advantage of things like social media and ... - Skills 2.0 Gina Minks: Adventures in Corporate Education What Competencies do Knowledge Workers Need? Clark ... networked nature of information Tony Karrer - Leading Learning and New ...

... appropriate to the organisation, and this is open to question when you're looking beyond knowledge workers. Assuming it ... In the Learning Circuits Blog , Tony Karrer poses a whole series of  questions related to the role of learning and development professionals in promoting informal learning / social learning / learning 2.0 within organisations: Q: Must learning professionals be literate in these things? Well I don't know about must , but they certainly should, if they want to remain credible as sources of expertise on organisational learning. This is sadly a a ...

... studies of knowledge worker practices that suggest that a lot of what is effective is quite personal. That said, I think ... a background in Knowledge Management discussing these things. They immediately go from individual learning to organizational learning. How can the organization capture the knowledge, learning, etc.? Certainly helping to make it a ... them greatly as knowledge workers going forward and hurt their organizations who will have marginal learner workers. ... . The element that really resonated with me is the adhoc nature / the real-time learning that we do today. I also sense ...

... learning are different things. That's no longer the case. In a knowledge society, work and learning are the same thing. Sun and ILA are developing what I call learnscapes . A learnscape is the platform where knowledge workers ... . They lack the discipline to put in the hard work to learn things the way you and I did when we were in school. Ye Gods ... employees of our companies. Learning professionals know that the incoming generation is not going to put up with what has ... -or-leave-it training, she'll work somewhere else. Corporations that don't offer employees the freedom to learn ...

... rapidly” (p. 41). The utilization of personal learning networks allows knowledge workers to remain current ... : Courses Informal learning Blended learning Communities Knowledge management Networked learning Work-based learning (EPSS) Beyond the categories of elearning, it ... powerful toolset in the knowledge workers portfolio. Jay Cross (2003): states that: “At ... eight categories of knowledge management: learning and development, information management, client ...

... is probably just as well. There's been a greater recognition of the fact that knowledge workers don't actually need to ... take a moment and reflect on the changes that I have witnessed in the field of corporate learning and development - my main focus over these ten years - from a largely UK perspective. Some changes in the field of learning and development generally: The term 'learning and development' has replaced 'training'. I'm sure we'd all like to think this change has been more than just cosmetic. Compliance training has become a primary focus for many learning and ...

... has some collaborative tools. The "spycam" works pretty well too!) For a knowledge worker - learning and work inseparable. - Choosing an authoring tool - doing both, learning about authoring tools and working. Concept worker - Daniel ... how to learn. Work Literacy - Find - include search, evaluate, narrow, adjust - Expertise leverage (networks and ... Presentation: Work Literacy 2.0 Presenter: Tony Karrer -------------------------- What's changed in knowledge work and learning? How does this relate to eLearning, eLearning 2.0 Implications of these changes on learning ...

Scope of Googling (And Why Information and Knowledge Workers Should Care) . InfoWorld: Reinventing the Intranet These ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning Corporate eLearning eLearning Design Authoring Tools Rapid e-Learning Tools eLearning (e-Learning) e-Learning Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... Search - Implications on Knowledge Work : eLearning ...

... social animals, even at work (some would say especially at work). Knowledge workers are not automatons. Of course ... knowledge workers the facilities they need to successfully work together in that environment. Vendors have taken notice of ... get labeled "social." Witness the terms social software, social computing, social networking and so on. Let’s ... is that emergent social networking and computing is changing the face of work itself. I think that’s an ... and networking within and beyond the enterprise. There is a tension between the notions of collaboration and networking ...

... employing substantial numbers of knowledge workers. Content generated using social learning technologies such as wikis ... & Informal Learning for the BBC. Nick's model, shown above, which he presented at a recent eLearning Network event ... Back in December I posted about what I predicted would become e-learning's two tiers . To remind you: High end The top tier would be e-learning that delivers something special, something that can't be achieved easily ... teams of specialists. You would expect e-learning content at this higher level to include a degree of ...