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From “learning technologies” to “social technologies”

Jane Hart

Social technologies now play a big part in everything we do, and it is quite clear that many knowledge workers use a variety of social tools and networks not only to help them get work done, but also to learn efficiently while on the job. Activity streams. Member profiling. Real-time updates. Threaded discussions. Group spaces.

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How to Scale Your Learning Efforts While Improving the Learner Experience

Docebo

They need to know how to discover relevant content quickly and this is increasingly vital for today’s knowledge worker. In fact, almost 40% of employees go to Google before asking a co-worker or using their employer’s learning technology. You can then plug this stream into your Learning Platform to make it easier for your.

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Social media and reflection: marriage or divorce?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Lilia Efimova wrote her Phd on 'blogging for knowledge workers'. Angle 3: The quantified self Another angle to learning about yourself is the thought stream about 'the quantified self- developing self knowledge though numbers'. What is the core of the presentation for you? You can read about her work here.

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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

Activity streams and collaboration platforms can enhance and support such awareness but not replace it. If anyone reading this is a knowledge worker and is thinking about working from home, read Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow. Are you a knowledge worker working from home?

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The Advantages of eLearning

eLearning Brothers

The mission of corporate eLearning is to supply the workforce with an up-to-date and cost-effective program that yields motivated, skilled, and loyal knowledge workers. The need to transform how organizations learn points to a more modern, efficient, and flexible alternative: eLearning. Anywhere, anytime, anyone.

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How L&D is helping the manufacturing industry address a skills shortage

Learning Pool

This new breed of worker is hard to find and challenging to keep. To retain knowledge workers businesses need to offer regular upskilling and career development opportunities. New tools and products are continuously in development and coming on stream.

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PDR Design Model Supports Shift to Learning Design in the Work Context

Living in Learning

If knowledge workers are not in training, they must be at work. Here again, we must have advance knowledge of the work context. We cannot stream a 15-minute program to a sales rep in front of a client. Streamed audio likely came out of a decision that considered burning CDs as an alternative.