Tony Karrer

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EPSS and ePerformance

Tony Karrer

So, for some time, we have added "ecoaching" to our "elearning" offering, to describe our electronic support options. Do these still hold to you (a search on esupport or e-support gets you mostly remote software support sources)? We could use EPSS as a term, but it seems a bit old, and a bit engineering-like.

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Informal Learning Technology

Tony Karrer

There's a fantastic post by Stephen Downes - New Technology Supporting Informal Learning. So as you read this, keep in mind that Stephen was primarily talking about technology that can support a Formal Learning Event that heavily leverages Informal / Social Learning as it's primary mechanism. It's definitely worth a read.

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Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality

Tony Karrer

That said, at a developer’s conference in 2004, Bill Gates made the statement that that although speech technology was one of the most difficult areas, even partial advances can spawn successful applications. It's being adopted today in major corporations, but it's still early in the adoption cycle.