The Learning Circuits

MAY 8, 2005

So I spent an hour doing knowledge work. "I can't believe I have to go get gasoline for this new-fangled automobile. Why Bessie just needed some grass." Or even, 'why does the hardware store sell me these grass seeds that will need to be mowed once a week?' What was I belly-aching about?

Knowledge Work 40

Knowledge Work Knowledge Network Sound 40

Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2008

You will: Learn specific methods you can use to accelerate your own knowledge work and learning Define strategies for eLearning 2.0 Tony Karrer to Greater Cincinnati to present a fun, engaging, fast-paced workshop that will allow you to use these "eLearning 2.0" methods and tools for yourself and your organization.

Social Networks 188

Social Networks Wiki eLearning 2.0 Social Bookmarking 188

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

We will bring together people who look at different aspects of learning and knowledge work to understand better what's going on in those areas and how we should be thinking about this holistically. Communities and Networks Knowledge Management Corporate Libraries Talent Management come together to form a cohesive picture.

LearnTrends 161

LearnTrends Conference Free Enterprise 2.0 161

Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

In chat: Moderator (Tony Karrer): In some ways – we are spending more time learning – if we aren’t learning, we should examine if it’s a good use of our Knowledge Work time. Current definitions: Microlearning emerges from microcontent.

LearnTrends 262

LearnTrends microlearning PLE Learning Objects 262

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

But, I actually think we should be focused on the emphasis on the type of knowledge work and the type of workers. The person in the call center does quite a bit of routine knowledge work. They will occasionally encounter unusual situations and then need to do more conceptual knowledge work. In other words.

Knowledge Worker 111

Knowledge Worker Engineering Knowledge Work Customer Service 111

Tony Karrer

MARCH 5, 2008

Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 links: [link]

Personal Learning 128

Personal Learning PLE PWLE Personal 128

Clark Quinn

JUNE 16, 2008

You will: Learn specific methods you can use to accelerate your own knowledge work and learning Define strategies for eLearning 2.0 Tony Karrer to Greater Cincinnati to present a fun, engaging, fast-paced workshop that will allow you to use these "eLearning 2.0" methods and tools for yourself and your organization.

Social Networks 158

Social Networks Wiki eLearning 2.0 Social Bookmarking 158

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Session Hopping a Practical Guide General Session - New Work Literacies and E-Learning 2.0 These changes are continuously transforming the landscape for knowledge work. The results are in, and most knowledge workers are struggling to adapt to new forms of work and learning. Learning 2.0

TechKnowledge 102

TechKnowledge ASTD Wiki Social Networks 102

Clark Quinn

JUNE 18, 2008

I've just posted Identify Knowledge Work Tasks - Workshop Exercise which describes a workshop exercise that I'm considering using in several different workshops. Please help: Identify Knowledge Work Tasks - Workshop Exercise. I feel like it makes a lot of the discussion more concrete. but I digress.

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Exercise Help Design Knowledge Work 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 18, 2008

I've just posted Identify Knowledge Work Tasks - Workshop Exercise which describes a workshop exercise that I'm considering using in several different workshops. Please help: Identify Knowledge Work Tasks - Workshop Exercise I feel like it makes a lot of the discussion more concrete. but I digress.

Exercise 100

Exercise Help Design Knowledge Work 100

Clark Quinn

JUNE 1, 2008

I'm very happy to announce that Michele Martin and I have just launched Work Literacy - a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. In fact, we all have blind spots.

Social Bookmarking 100

Social Bookmarking RSS eLearning 2.0 Poll 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 1, 2008

I'm very happy to announce that Michele Martin and I have just launched Work Literacy - a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. In fact, we all have blind spots.

Social Bookmarking 100

Social Bookmarking RSS eLearning 2.0 Poll 100

Clark Quinn

MAY 21, 2010

I’m thinking mobile could become the default target design, and desktop augments will be possible, versus the other way around.

Mobile 165

Mobile eLearning Guild Conference iPad 165

Tony Karrer

MARCH 30, 2010

That said, I thought it would be worthwhile for me to collect a few of the resources that provide good starting points that can help Knowledge Workers improve their performance using Social Media. eLearning Technology.

Knowledge Worker 106

Knowledge Worker Social Media Media Knowledge 106

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The point, however, is from the point of the view of the learner, all the resources needed are ‘to hand’ through every stage of knowledge work. Jay Cross talks about the learnscape , while I term it the performance ecosystem.

Wiki 182

Wiki Network IMS IM 182

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Should the following Dilbert worry me about Work Literacy? Much of the idea of Work Literacy is to help people who need to keep up with how technology impacts knowledge work.

eLearning Strategy 106

eLearning Strategy Twitter eLearning Tools Search 106

Tony Karrer

APRIL 3, 2007

Search - Implications on Knowledge Work Corporate eLearning Development: Learning2.0, Why Wikis Are Conquering the Enterprise Wikis - Public vs. Controlled - Why There's No eLearning Wiki Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? Learning Trends Point To and Shape Corporate eLearning

Corporate eLearning 101

Corporate eLearning Wiki Mashups iPod 101

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2009

As we’ve automated more work and started developing training for more knowledge work without adapting our methods (and, consequently, making generally dreadful learning experiences), the training role is less and less seen as worthwhile. This should not be threatening or anxiety-inducing!

Training 161

Training Train Pattern Performance Support 161

Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Tom Gram’s diagram (reproduced to the left) shows that “ most work requires a combination of knowledge work and routine work. These characteristics of jobs and work environments call for different approaches to training and development.” [se

Social Learning 199

Social Learning Social Metrics Blended Learning 199

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 10, 2013

He realized that the problems the world was facing were growing exponentially, and that our only hope was to learn at a similarly exponential rate, and decided that helping humans accomplish this goal was a suitable life’s work. His solution was so all-encompassing that most people only get their minds around a small bit of it.

Diversity Training 154

Diversity Training Internet Articulate Collaboration 154

Tony Karrer

MAY 4, 2010

We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work. See Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency? This is going to first take the form of hundreds of thousands of different little applications that each provide performance support for particular tasks.

Performance Support 113

Performance Support Support Performance Cognitive 113

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 25, 2010

I am talking about knowledge work here. With everything changing at a pace never experienced before, there is no time to undergo the same experience repeatedly for the building of expertise around it. Not about playing the guitar or becoming a champion chess player. Those kinds of expertise will still need 10,000 hours of practice.

Learner 177

Learner Diversity Training Expertise Cognitive 177

ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. And as Daniel Pink has pointed out in his now legendary book, Drive , internal motivation is one of the driving forces of creative knowledge work.

Stock 124

Stock Skype Knowledge Worker Community 124

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 7, 2009

It starts by looking at your key knowledge work: Roles Projects For myself, these might be: Roles Small Business Owner Manager Acting CTO Community organizer Expert / Speaker / Writer Client Advisor Family Vacation Planner Fine Dining Planner etc. What's a top-down strategy? What sometimes goes wrong or seems harder than it should be?

eLearning Strategy 100

eLearning Strategy Strategy Scanning eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 24, 2009

I'm hoping you can help a reader with thoughts and likely help others of us … A medium size nonprofit and lobbying organization is working on a designing and creating a social / work network for experts, students, volunteers who are willing to help through campaigning, lobby, sharing knowledge, working on solutions (writing documents).

Social Networks 102

Social Networks Social Network Network Social 102

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 20, 2008

In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have occurred and are constantly occurring. A big part of education is learning how to do research and really that's where you learn the foundations of knowledge work. Finding content was the biggest challenge.

Work Skills 100

Work Skills Skills Wiki Google Docs 100

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Except for last month's T+D article on Blogging for Learning and Networking of course. ;) Natural Part of Knowledge Work I've found that I've also adopted a practice of blogging as a natural part of my knowledge work. it is quite natural to blog these things.

Scanning 100

Scanning Blogging Write Blog eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

How To Find The Best Free Image/Photo/Graphics Downloads For Your Blog Posts | Smackdown!

Social Networks 139

Social Networks Blended Learning Authoring Tools PLE 139

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 11, 2010

s impact on knowledge work and workplace learning. He is author of the award-winning eLearning Technology blog, creator of eLearning Learning , and founder of Work Literacy. About the Presenter: Dr. Tony Karrer is an expert on innovative uses of technology that improves human performance.

Predictions 109

Predictions Diversity Training eLearning Consultant Association Learning Management System 109

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

This is definitely a knowledge work task where talking to someone will help. I posted a query about this to several of the groups that I've joined on LinkedIn and have received about a dozen responses so far. I have yet to discover (through further research) which (if any) of the responses will be most helpful to me.

LinkedIn 100

LinkedIn Social Networks Expertise Ning 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 25, 2009

Complexity of Productivity for Knowledge Work Productivity is defined as: the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time For some knowledge workers, we can reasonably define things this way. It also causes us to confuse activity and effectiveness.

Productivity 100

Productivity Product Social Networks Knowledge Worker 100

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

However, when I look at what I do day-to-day and what other people do day-to-day as part of their work and learning, I don't see it as really being different. Basically, I see us: Staying generally knowledgeable on about my industry, my job skills, etc.

Change 100

Change Methods Learning eLearning Tools 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

Harold Jarche, Michele Martin and I are pleased to announce a new workshop offering that relates to the recent posts on Tool Set 2009 and to the issues of Work Literacy. Work Literacy Skills Workshop Was the last formal training you had on knowledge work skills the use of a card catalog and microfiche reader?

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Wiki Skills ASTD 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 6, 2009

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. Our last formal learning used card catalogs, microfiche readers, Xerox machines, libraries, etc.

Work Skills 102

Work Skills Skills Information Overload Search 102

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 30, 2007

However, knowledge workers and learners are adopting other work and learning techniques and tools because they support knowledge work and learning AND because they are incredibly easy to use, thus, the adoption hurdle is low (see Adoption of Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 Revisited ).

Wiki 100

Wiki PLE LMS eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

Other Posts in the Series Tool Set 2009 Work Skills Keeping Up Top-Down Strategy Better Memory Information Radar Networks and Learning Communities Collaborate Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool Search Browser Short Cuts Other Places to Look Alternative list of skills - I've focused on the skills in the initial Knowledge Work Framework.

PWLE 122

PWLE PLE Tools PKM 122

Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2009

I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. In most cases, I will ask for a show of hands: How many of you have a LinkedIn Account? Generally 50-70%. How many of you actively use LinkedIn? Generally down to 10%.

Social Networks 120

Social Networks LinkedIn Knowledge Worker Guide 120