The E-learning Curve at Edublogs

[We] are living through a period of profound change and transformation of the shape of society and its underlying economic base … The nature of production, trade, employment and work in the coming decades will be very different from what it is today. The determinants of economic success will be different to those that were [...]

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From the 1980’s, through the 1990’s and on to the early 21st century, the rise in knowledge complexity is being driven by the combined forces of the information technology revolution and the increasing pace of technological change. Globalization is being driven by national and international deregulation, and by the IT-related communications revolution.

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In yesterday’s post I began this series by outlining the social, economic and technological circumstances that led to the emergence and characterization of the Knowledge Economy in the last third of the 20th century. In this section, I am going to outline the history of the knowledge workers themselves.
In his 1998 text Rise of the [...]

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In yesterday’s post I began this series by outlining the social, economic and technological circumstances that led to the emergence and characterization of the Knowledge Economy in the last third of the 20th century. In this section, I am going to outline the history of the knowledge workers themselves.

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If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.

Gen. Eric Shinseki
The US and EuroZone economies are in recession, China is ascendant, Russia is asserting it’s regional dominance, all the knowledge jobs are going to India, and it hasn’t stopped raining for two weeks.
As you know if you’re a regular reader [...]

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If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.

Gen. Eric Shinseki
The US and EuroZone economies are in recession, China is ascendant, Russia is asserting it’s regional dominance, all the knowledge jobs are going to India, and it hasn’t stopped raining for two weeks.
As you know if you’re a regular reader [...]

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