E-K
Explicit knowledge
Knowledge that’s easy to communicate. (Opposite of “tacit knowledge.”)
Gap
analysis.
Figure out what to do by assessing the gap between where you
are and where you want to be. Most people then begin building from the
present into the future. We favor looking at the step right before the
ultimate one and backing toward the present one step at a time.
Hitnosis.
Obsessively checking your web counter to see if the number has changed.
ILT. Instructor-led training, generally a workshop.
IMS -
A standards body developing and promoting open specifications for facilitating
online distributed learning. Its traditional emphasis surrounded meta-tagging
specifications
Informal/formal learning. Formal learning is a class, a seminar,
a self-study course — everyone recognizes it as learning. Informal learning
is over the water cooler, at the poker game, asking the guy in the next
cube to help out, collaborative problem solving, watching an expert, or
sharing a terminal for eLearning. More than half of corporate learning
is the informal kind.
Instructional design. A
systems approach to designing a learning experience. Heavily promoted
by DoD investment, formal instructional design is currently under attack
for fostering slow development, a printed-paper mindset, and insufficient
attention to informal learning.
Internet time. The accelerated timeframe of the
new economy brought on by eBusiness and the Internet. A year of Internet
time may equal seven years of calendar time. Or more. Or less.
Intangible.
Something that cannot be perceived by the senses. Accountants and financial
types only grudgingly concede that some intangibles have value, and they
find it in things like brand names and patents. Because you can’t immediately
sense a person’s capability, a customer’s loyalty, or a relationship with
a supplier, accountants say these things have to value.
Job aid. Cheat sheet. Checklist. Process map.
Generally, a piece of paper that helps you do your job.
Just-in-time learning.
Getting the right knowledge to the right person at the right time.
K Log.
Knowledge blog. A euphemism used by corporate types who don’t want to
be typecast as mere social bloggers.
Kittyblogger.
A person who uses their blog to write about their cats or equally interesting
topics.
Knowledge Management (KM). Whatever you want it to mean.