Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Hat tip to Donald Clark for pointer to a Science Daily article - Improving Brain Processing Speed Helps Memory : Mayo Clinic researchers found that healthy, older adults who participated in a computer-based training program to improve the speed and accuracy of brain processing showed twice the improvement in certain aspects of memory, compared to a (..)

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Score Brain Sound Exercise 105

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

It was definitely helpful to spend time going through Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles. Learning Coach Model Very Powerful In 2010, I had a great experience where Dr. Joel Harband wrote a series of articles for my blog on Text-to-Speech in eLearning. I’ve had to find ways to filter the flow and figure out when/how to reach out.

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Text-to-Speech Compliance Training Diversity Training SharePoint 200

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

He makes the point that despite articles like Why free online lectures will destroy universities – unless they get their act together fast : Statements like “universities are obsolete” or “universities are dying” are comical. While George does talk about challenges in education, I think he misses part of the point of the article.

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Lecture Corporate eLearning Internationalization Creative Commons 141

Tony Karrer

MAY 17, 2010

There was a great recent article (found via Gary Woodill ) - Where Have All the Avatars Gone? The basic point of the article is that despite not hearing as much about Second Life and other virtual worlds, a lot is happening where you can’t see it. You might also look at Second Life and Learning and Second Life as a Learning Tool.

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Environment Second Life Virtual World Simulations 137

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Consider what recently happened when Training Zone published a laughable article - The elearning diet: Not recommended for long term results. Look at the number of views as compared to other articles on the site. This article is getting lots of page views. Plus you can rely on human nature. I understand why they did it.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 20, 2009

I just got through reading Jay's post and article (with Clark Quinn) around Become a chief meta-learning officer – one of the hot list items from two weeks ago. It's a great article, definitely worth a read. What was particularly interesting about his article was the use of the term meta-learning. Close the training department.

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Long Tail CLO Pattern Wikipedia 102

Tony Karrer

MAY 20, 2010

Cathy pointed me to questions about Alexa ( Wikipedia article ). So to be clear, things I excluded: Vendor specific sites, e.g., Skillsoft Sites focused on broader topics like HR, Talent Management, Training, etc., Thanks to Harold Jarche and Susan Lewis (via twitter) and Cathy Moore and Dennis Wilen (via Facebook) with help on this.

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Site Brandon Hall ASTD eLearning 123

Tony Karrer

MAY 29, 2008

I've talked about ePerformance before in EPSS and ePerformance as well as in a series of articles in Learning Circuits: ePerformance Essentials ePerformance at Work: Self-Service Action and Development Planning ePerformance at Work: eFollowUp Clark's take on ePerformance looks to have a similar definition. The concepts are fairly similar.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Rick Nigol posted and reminded me of a post by Donald Clark - Training magaZZZZZZZZZZines. I will bring copies of magazines on a plane to flip through, but rarely do I read articles in any great depth. and the articles I write on various topics (e.g., They simply are not worth my Limited Attention.

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Scanning Long Tail eLearning 2.0 Write Blog 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 26, 2011

Responding to the Need for Speed I like where Glenn Hansen started his answer: Don’t assume that training is the answer. Even if some kind of training is reasonable, don’t assume the stakeholder in question has identified the right solution. In terms of specific suggestions there are some real nuggets in several of the responses.

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Knowledge Worker Agile Instructional Design eLearning Strategy 134

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 16, 2007

I'm working on an article around the use of ROI and metrics in eLearning. Support - ROI Calculator Training & Support Return on Investment Calculator Investing in Learning: Consider Value, Not Just ROI ROI, or return on investment, is king in today's business world. I did a quick search for resources and here's what I found.

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Metrics ROI Compliance Training eLearning Strategy 115

Tony Karrer

APRIL 2, 2007

I just saw this article on CLO - Survey: 40 Percent of Companies Spend up to Half of Training Budgets on Administration Yikes! This certainly makes you wonder. It also makes you wonder about the wisdom of getting an LMS in place to automate tasks that possibly are very expensive from an overhead perspective.

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CLO Budget Survey LMS 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 13, 2007

Thanks to Big Dog, Little Dog saw an article/post from Donald Taylor on Training Zone - It's Time to Drop E-Learning - a horrible title given that the author is only calling for dropping the "e" from the front of the term. So, people who read the article probably won't find this information. Likely they won't have trackbacks.

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eLearning 2.0 eLearning Alternatives CLO 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Great article from Harvard Business.org - (via Big Dog, Little Dog ). Halfway through each training, after describing the process, I always asked the same question: Why won't this work for you? Overcome Objections Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results One key idea is when rolling something out.

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Adoption Adopt Ideas Solution 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Top 2008 Posts based on Read Counts: 100 eLearning Articles and White Papers Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 Test SCORM Courses with an LMS Request for Proposal (RFP) Samples Training Method Trends Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis SCORM Test Web 2.0

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Long Tail eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 6, 2006

I recently was piling through my stack of magazines and ran across an article in Training & Development Magazine that reference "the stages of eLearning" from a Josh Bersin report. Unfortunately, the article is only available to ASTD members and via registration at Bersin's site. You don't need an LMS to do eLearning.

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Blended Learning Wiki LCMS Dreamweaver 100

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

My article in Training + Development Magazine was just published - Learning and Networking with a Blog. You must launch the reader and then go to page 20 to find the article. Unfortunately, a couple of things got cut between the final edits from T+D and when it was published.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 14, 2009

So, the basic question is: We current provide a two day (16 hour) classroom training course for our employees. Thus such courses as compliance training offers a seat time advantage due to rather than having an instructor do all the talking, we can now just read it. Quite a good article when you are thinking about this conversion.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 30, 2006

The author(s) have been writing individual articles for months or years. This is my attempt to help you get a sense of topics of my blog and find some of the more interesting past articles. Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning Posts It can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. Enterprise 2.0

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Social Networks Instructional Design Authoring Tools Guide 102

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Adler's recent article - Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 The article is definitely worth a read, and it got me to finally write about what I see as a crisis in corporate learning. Impact How does this impact the world of learning organizations and corporate learning functions (training organizations)?

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Long Tail Attention Corporate Learning Corporate eLearning 111

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 5, 2009

E-learning outside the training box with Nancy White and John Smith Once you've mastered enough of the new social media tools, training and development professionals are figuring out that technologies can change the boundaries around training itself, just as they can interrupt organizational boundaries.

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LearnTrends Free Digital Wiki 167

Tony Karrer

MAY 22, 2007

points to a post that I had seen as well but he tracks the issue back to an article from CLO Magazine that discusses the renaming of the E-Learning Industry Group in Europe. Including an earlier article from CLO itself: What's in a Name? Schone - Is the Term 'eLearning' Going to Become Extinct? In his post, B.J.

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eLearning CLO eLearning Tools Conference 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 23, 2007

It's a question of what happens as production moves from being owned by the training organization to one where SMEs and learners are more responsible. Tony O'Driscoll did a comparison of the evolution of Web 1.0 and Learning 1.0 to Learning 2.0. It's a bit different than my comparison of eLearning 1.0 But similar in nature.

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Social Networks Webcast Social Network Network 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 22, 2006

The recent article by Dion Hinchcliffe - Blogs, wikis, and Web 2.0 This looks very much like what Dion is talking about in his article, but he takes it a step further by defining it as an architecture for development. Actually, I'm not even that sure what it looks like today. eLearning Trends, eLearning 2.0,

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Wiki Platform Corporate eLearning Mash-up 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 8, 2006

Dave Boggs recent post No eLearning Tectonic Plate Shift Here had some interesting comments about my article Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids. or the recent article in Learning Circuits - eLearning Technology: The Real HCM Maturity Model. Or is there something different now? Well we do agree on this.

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Courseware Wiki Dreamweaver Corporate eLearning 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 26, 2009

A List Apart: Articles: In Defense of Eye Candy , May 16, 2009 Facilitating Online | Centre for Educational Technology , May 19, 2009 Are Your E-Learning Courses Pushed or Pulled? , Here's what you might have missed last week. May 19, 2009 25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 2009 , May 19, 2009 Learning 2.0

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Social Media Mobile Learning Media Social 104

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny. Reading the articles and the comments is probably worth it, but I personally think that the NY Times is overstating the advantage of being in Silicon Valley. I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation?

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Innovation Courseware eLearning Open Source 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Learning 2.0 - The Things How we read online. - Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary PR 2.0: Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary PR 2.0: Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers Web 2.0

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Social Networks Blended Learning Authoring Tools PLE 139

Tony Karrer

MAY 31, 2006

I read an interesting article over on Learning Circuits entitled HCM Maturity Model. The knowledge targeting stage of HCM provides HR and training leaders a unique opportunity to connect with business leaders, understand their challenges and deliver tangible value to them.

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Saba Emergent eLearning Tools LMS 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Great article by Dion Hinchcliffe - The State of Enterprise 2.0. There's an important role for training organizations to help understand and develop these skills in the enterprise. Increasing evidence abounds that Enterprise 2.0 platforms to 160,000 workers.

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Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise Wiki KM 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 8, 2009

Tools - Don't Waste Your Time , May 10, 2009 Informal Learning Technology - eLearning Technology , May 11, 2009 Capture Examples - eLearning Technology , May 29, 2009 Presentation: Blogs in Education - Don't Waste Your Time , May 22, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals.

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Social Networks Wiki Corporate eLearning Case Study 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 16, 2009

Are there training departments? What will current members of training departments be doing in 10 years? Some people are suggesting getting rid of training departments and starting fresh. Others, including myself, don't believe training departments will go away any more than educational institutions will no longer exist.

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eLearning Consultant Consulting Job Management 103

Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2009

US surveys show e-learning on the rise as training budgets fall - Clive on Learning , April 2, 2009 Thanks to Kineo for pointing me to the Market Update recently released by Ambient Insight which forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 16.3% I've reproduced the text of the article here. What is an online learning community?

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Diversity Training Authoring Tools Portal Screencast 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 14, 2006

Harold Jarche wrote an interesting article The relevance of the learning profession that received a fair amount of attention in various blogs. The other comments that struck me from Harold's article: it's the realisation that individuals now own the means of knowledge production.

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Instructional Design Courseware Performance Support Behavior 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 23, 2006

In reference to my article Captivate File Size Tricks for Software Training via Simulations , I was just asked: I was hoping you could answer a real easy question for me? For an enterprise wide LMS system, would a Captivate movie (file) that is 1.5mb or less too big?

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Captivate File Size Movie Simulations 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 2, 2009

link] January 22-24, 2009 Training on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning , Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, India. link] com/ FEBRUARY 2009 February 1, 2009 DIDACTA 2009 Trade Fair for Education and Training , Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre, Stuttgart, Germany. link] detail.asp?id=14883 link] exhibitions/exhibition_index.

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eLearning Conferences Conference Blended Learning Diversity Training 121

Tony Karrer

APRIL 15, 2009

My earlier article that catalogs some of these concerns I think is still valuable, though it too misses much. Your article is a good one to go back to - although I have some disagreements with things in the article and we both I think are challenged with figuring out exactly what we can and should do around measurement of this stuff.

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Blended Learning Social Learning Social Technology 105