Tony Karrer

AUGUST 15, 2011

In case you don't know about eLearning Learning, it brings together content from leading experts and companies like the Adobe Captivate Blog , Clark Quinn , Clive Shepherd , Jay Cross , Karl Kapp , and really too many to list. Over on eLearning Learning , we've just launched a new version with some great new features.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 13, 2009

Intuit talks about their move to outsource learning development to their customers and redefining value of learning. Or senior leaders from major training companies talk about the challenges and opportunities in the market. Register Here Description: Corporate training departments and training companies are facing challenging times.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Example #2 - CompUSA Dealer Training - Legal Issues - Legal services presentation on a company web site Example #3 - Calculating Usain Bolt's Power - Math derivation. Dr. Joel Harband has made an offer to create some brief examples using PowerPoint-based courses that a corporation had developed using a real voice.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Selling a TTS sound file for profit - a company sells an audio training presentation they made with the TTS sound file for profit E-learning courses created by corporations are typically in the category of internal audio distribution – the course is put on the company server to be accessed by company employees.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Definition (via Andrew McAfee ): the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers HR & Org Implication: Enterprise 2.0 It's really about the fact that learning and development leaders have an opportunity to embrace 2.0. is the use of Web 2.0

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Tony Karrer

MAY 6, 2010

We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Scribd today announced that they are going to be changing their Flash player to be based on HTML5. "We

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Tony Karrer

JULY 31, 2008

One request was for eLearning development providers from fairly large 5,000+ employees based in the US. They are fairly new to eLearning design and development. Within a few hours of each other, I received two requests for referral to service providers. We've looked at a few eLearning vendors and haven't been thrilled.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

Previously, Harold worked as a Chief Learning Officer of an e-Learning company, Project Manager at a university, and Training Development Officer with the Canadian Forces. Michele Martin is an independent consultant who specializes in using social media tools to support learning, and career and professional development.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

This person works in a military environment with some very particular requirements for how multimedia assets are treated during development. Because of that he's in the position of having to determine how much disk space will be needed during development. It's pretty interesting to hear about development in a military environment.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Part of the rationale for this argument is that the LMS market is not ever going to be "huge" - meaning the market leaders are $100M companies and they likely can't grow much beyond that. • Learn.com is the worldwide leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity. So, how can you get big? You go broader. His bottom line.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 26, 2010

This gave rise to the additional of a new keyword Augmented Reality on eLearning Learning. At least they’ll likely have a bit more clue as to who to talk to.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 7, 2010

When I was working with various high tech, insurance and financial services companies – a key ingredient was how quickly people could effectively roll-out new products, policies, respond to competitive threats, etc. It really was about how quickly you can become proficient on all the new stuff. It was about Time to Performance.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 2, 2007

At Xerox, Chief Technology Officer Sophie VanDebroek turned the process inside out by setting up a wiki that would allow researchers in the R&D group to define collaboratively the company's technology strategy. IBM uses it for Innovation Jams.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 15, 2009

One of the more interesting aspects of the discussions I've had over the past few weeks as I prepare for the free online conference on the future of learning is the perspective on the focus and scope of responsibility of internal learning organizations and external learning/training companies. It's a first cut at a developing mental model.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been trying to find out more about specific answers to Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning. Example: A corporation may use OCW materials for internal professional development and training purposes. As part of last month’s big question Open Content in Workplace Learning? That’s great news.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 11, 2006

Noise pointed me to the Wikipedia entry for the waterfall model of software development. where I studied software development processes and now having built a services company based on building quality software and eLearning solutions, there's still a lot that is relevant in both the Waterfall model and in ADDIE.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 8, 2009

As part of preparing for the July 23 free online session on the Future of the Business of Learning , I've had a bunch of conversations with CLOs/VP Learning, CEOs of Training Companies, Marketing and Sales Consultants to Training Companies, Industry Analysts, Software and Services Vendors. It's going to be interesting.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 5, 2009

His experience with technology companies and high-tech initiatives provides him with insights into the future of technology. Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a software, web and eLearning development firm based in Los Angeles , and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 8, 2008

relates closely to the concepts Learning 2.0 , eLearning Tools , Corporate eLearning , Personal Learning , and Enterprise 2.0 ; the Tools Odeo , CollectiveX , Bea Pages , Apache Roller , and Dogear ; and the Companies NexLearn , Awareness Networks , Element K , and Mzinga. As an example, I can see that eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 16, 2007

This level of evaluation will increase the visibility of learning and development efforts, because successful implementation of Level 3 evaluation Internet Time Blog: ROI is toast. Does it cost less to design and develop online teaching and learning today than it did a few years ago? Use EVA instead. ROI is toast. Use EVA instead.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases Due to economic pressures, companies are going to reduce training budgets to a point where it doesn't make sense to create content on marginal topics. As far as companies who focus on creating strategies around eLearning 2.0 Companies are moving more slowly, but not really failing at it.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 8, 2006

I was a professor of Computer Science and Multimedia for 10 years but had to leave when my company started to grow. I continue to write, speak and sometimes teach, but I'm much more of a hands on developer of eLearning solutions than "an academic." Today, I see more and more companies STARTING WITH THE OTHER STUFF.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 31, 2006

This jam was open (somewhat) to outside input and it "generated 37,000 ideas from 140,000 people in 75 countries and 67 companies." More recently they've used "Jams" to look at innovative product/service ideas.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 27, 2010

In this post we will begin to address the practical side of the subject: How can e-learning developers use Text-to-Speech (TTS) voices to narrate their courses? TTS Stand-Alone Web Services TTS stand-alone products can be used by eLearning developers irrespective of the authoring tool they are used.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 4, 2007

His team measures which notions draw the most activity and cherry-picks a handful to unveil at Cisco's quarterly leadership-development program. Normally at such gatherings, promising up-and-comers from across a company hear lectures, bond, and ponder case studies. Three of the nine notions so tested are now in active development.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

About Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a software, web and eLearning development firm based in Los Angeles, and is considered one of the top technologists in eLearning. Tony will then discuss the implications and possible actions for individuals and organizations because of the social grid.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

I'm thinking that the scope of the demands from our learners are finite and still within the means of a training department (with the help blending training programs and of the social knowledge of the company properly harnessed), rather than requiring the power of an Amazon-sized retailer to meet a near-infinite long tail of interests.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 3, 2009

I am hopeful that a few will take on a self-directed learning task around some of the things I talked about in Tool Set to develop their own knowledge and proficiency, but certainly they would not be spearheading any broader learning mix initiatives anytime soon. and it's fine to use that amongst ourselves, don't use it in mixed company.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 15, 2009

Learning efficiency - time lag between posting content and when content is viewed, amount of time spent producing content for others to view, amount of redundant or significantly overlapping content, the degree to which “informal” content is reused in “formal” content (and perhaps reducing formal content development costs and effort).

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I wanted to share some discussions I've recently had around an interesting project where the company provided the sales team a collaboration, content distribution and expert access portal. Background I can't reveal the company used in this case study at their request. Where's Learning and Development? learning.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 27, 2010

If you are working for a company that falls in the first category (no social media please), its better that you install a Twitter mobile app on your cell phone and not use the office computer at all for tweeting. There was concern around skills that take time to develop. I ran into a post about Using Twitter at Work.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A small percentage of these turn into actual clients and some percentage of the clients who engage my for consulting turn into clients who engage the designers, architects and developers from my staff. In general, I love doing this. It's fun to work for a lot of different people who often bring very creative ideas and varied skill sets.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 26, 2009

1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases Due to economic pressures, companies are going to reduce training budgets to a point where it doesn't make sense to create content on marginal topics. Off-the-shelf content companies will be moving to meet this need by emphasizing quick wins through resources. #5 2 - eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

What do these companies have in common: Google eBay Yahoo Amazon MapQuest Craigslist Wikipedia YouTube Built on top of Linux (open source). Much more challenging to develop these literacies. I'm hoping this is going to be similar to Work Literacy. Pattern recognition is key. Not packaged apps. Data aggregators, not just software.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2010

When developing PowerPoint slides to use in web conference training follow these guidelines: Simplify content. I primarily used the eLearning Learning and Communities and Networks sites and used Conference , Online Facilitation of Conferences , Online Interaction in Conferences , Moderating Online Interaction , and others.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I've spent several hours this morning trying to find good resources on eLearning Strategy development and particularly looking for examples to use in this post. Rather, you are very similar to a services company. Are you involved in Selection, Onboarding, Reviews, Development? I've really been striking out.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Linking development plans, career paths, learning opportunities. Kevin mentions how Learning Management System companies have move towards Talent Management. Younger generation used to finding things on their own. Talent management being discussed in the board room. Performance management. before they get the foundation right.

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