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Wiki Traffic - What Gets Visited on Wikipedia

Tony Karrer

Interesting article - What is Popular on Wikipedia and Why? Excerpts rom the introduction - Wikipedia 's English version has more than 1.6 million articles and received 43 million unique visitors from the US in January 2007. 70 percent of Wikipedia's traffic comes from search engines. This makes a lot of sense.

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Aha Moments in 2007

Tony Karrer

I wanted to go back and figure out what things really struck me during 2007. I found myself using Wikipedia early in research tasks on all sorts of topics. December Big Question - What did you learn about learning? I'm going after this just a little bit different. I started using del.icio.us I lost the argument.

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Is MOOC Suitable For Corporate & Workplace Learning?

Upside Learning

If you are completely new to MOOC you’d do well to check the Wikipedia page here for a quick intro and lots of links to read further if you wish. The concept of a MOOC is itself not very old (started in 2007-2008), so I wouldn’t really worry if it sounds completely alien.

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Wikis and Learning – 60 Resources

Tony Karrer

Experiencing eLearning , July 27, 2009 Wikis at Work - eLearning Technology , February 25, 2007 Control and Community: A Case Study of Enterprise Wiki Usage , May 4, 2009 Blog or Wiki? Here’s some of what I found: Why a Wiki? How about math?

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My Top Ten Tools for Learning 2009

Experiencing eLearning

I decided this year that I wouldn’t look at my 2007 or 2008 lists first and would just start fresh. Wikipedia is the first place I check for basic, “good enough&# information on many topics. I’m updating my Top Ten Tools for Learning for Jane Hart’s Top 100 list. Personal Learning. Image: Number 10.

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ASTD TechKnowledge 2007 - Opening Sessions

Tony Karrer

He openly questions whether the goal of perfection (think as compared to Wikipedia) should be the primary. One thing that struck me was his point of relevant vs. perfect. He was part of the team that worked on Britannica Online. To me this relates closely to the question of speed vs. quality. Thorton May is now up. He has verbal ADD.

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What are your strategic goals in 2007

The Learning Circuits

Even more so than saving my Wikipedia entry, I would like to ask something more of you. What are your strategic goals for 2007? As part of that, what are your learning goals for 2007? And finally, how much time do you plan to spend in either classrooms, online courses, or conferences?