On the occasion of its one hundredth birthday, Harvard Business School is taking a look in the mirror. Working Knowledge, an online forum from HBS, gave Professor Emeritus Jim Heskett a platform to raise the issue of the relevance of case study instruction. One hundred eleven people left comments! Iâ¬"ll summarize their observations and offer a few critical comments of my own. Heskettâ¬"s original article noted that â¬SThe case method has become synonymous with education for management. In fact, it was derived in the early 20th century from training for the law at Harvard by several ...

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... from filling individual learners heads with knowledge to tuning networks of experienced individuals to a given problem ... filling individual learners heads with knowledge to tuning networks of experienced individuals to a given problem or ... the training function is being left behind. Today, insights drive profits. These insights are generated from knowledge ...

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... working alone. Be a teacher. You’ve accumulated a certain amount of knowledge to this point, but unless you share it your media empire will suffer. You need to share that knowledge with the outside world (to attract visitors, build reputation, grow karma) but more importantly you need to share that knowledge with your team. Don’t expect each ... invest a crazy amount of time, get into startup mode, take a risk and leverage your knowledge, go for it and build your ... my observations and my knowledge of what Wendy has done (from interacting with her on numerous occasions.) But ...

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 access to people. Sure, the amount of existing content out there grows exponentially (a trillion web pages indexed by Google in 2008). But, more remarkable is that now you have a lot of mechanisms to reach out to people and find ...

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... the definition of "e-learning" so expansive (and yes, I realize there is overlap between e-learning and knowledge management but to classify knowledge management activities as learning seem silly) it makes the term almost meaningless. Yes, everything you do should be about learning and creating knowledge, but this is different from Learning with a Big-L and ... knowledge workers be able to do their work (that inherently has learning involved) more effectively, efficiently, ...

... which ones to choose in order to get a well rounded working knowledge of how to build a course. Do you have ...