Tony Karrer

APRIL 2, 2007

Just because someone came to the page doesn't mean that they found valuable content. Bookmarks to me indicate what I think is my most valuable content. Somehow, I never made the connection to helping me for MY CONTENT. In fact, this would allow me to redo my First Time Visitor Guide with content from this widget.

Social Bookmarking 100

Social Bookmarking Authoring Tools Content eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 1, 2008

I've added BrowseMyStuff to my sidebar and particularly links to keywords found in my blog and those found in various eLearning blogs. Browse eLearning Blogs - [link] Browse eLearning Technology - [link] It's nice that it basically provides automatic categorization. For example, here's eLearning 2.0

Blogging 100

Blogging eLearning 2.0 Content Examples 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 3, 2007

The reality is that all providers of content are competing in a flat world, with easy access to virtually every other information source and many different, alternative means of content creation. In this world, content producers face real challenges. If you are a producer of content, you are now competing with many new sources.

Big Question 100

Big Question vendor Compliance Training Content 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Learning Conversations , December 30, 2008 Why you should embrace open source - Informal Learning , February 14, 2009 Free, High Quality, Reusable Content - Daretoshare , August 22, 2009 eLearning Technology. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs.

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Open Source eLearning Tools Open Authoring Tools 255

Tony Karrer

MAY 24, 2006

James Robertson's excellent Column Two blog pointed me to an interesting article by Seth Gottlieb - Email and Content Management which provides some practical suggestions about how to move from email based content management towards better mechanisms.

Wiki 100

Wiki KM Content Management 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2007

Interesting and quite ironic post that asks - Is Jimmy Wales Worth $300? Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia and his talk is "Challenging how knowledge is created." It is ironic to be asking whether his talk is worth money?

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Open Wikipedia Content Microsoft 100

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. There is a lot more content that comes in as well beyond the Featured sources.

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Rapid Intake Rapid eLearning Examples eLearning 182

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 16, 2017

the community of bloggers continues to thrive and anything that highlights the amazing content produced by the diverse blogging community is great. It's personally gratifying to see this happening. While I've not been active blogging (is this really my first post since 2015?),

Diversity Training 170

Diversity Training Write Blog eLearning Big Question 170

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Content Creators => you can no longer build content in Flash as a delivery vehicle. Authoring Tool Companies => you must immediately talk to your product roadmap and how you will be able to deliver HTML 5 content. No More Fence Sitting! You must look at how media will be handled going forward.

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Flash Flash to HTML5 Conversion Rapid Intake HTML 217

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Learning content will be transformed for easier consumption. Success metrics for learning will be based on content access, views, involvement and downloads. Convergence of educational institutions to the supply chain of corporate training will change the supplier landscape.

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Predictions Diversity Training Compliance Training Authoring Tools 198

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 2, 2012

That means that eLearning Learning now allows users to sign-up and have their content personalized based on their interests. You can sign-up via the "Personalize Your Content" button on the right side of the interface shown to the right of the red arrow below. Now with personalization it's even better.

Personal 151

Personal Personalization Social Networks eLearning 151

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

These two industry leaders in online learning and training bring together their extensive content and community offerings to form the largest eLearning offering on the Web. But the important thing is that there's still great content on the site every day - oh hey, Karl Kapp just wrote about Gamification - hold on, let me check that out.

Network 136

Network Newsletter eLearning Site 136

Tony Karrer

APRIL 26, 2011

Corny 1986 line. :) Content Needs This is a very crude self-assessment, but I believe it makes an important point. Consider the content (knowledge, information, learning) you personally need to get your job done. Will the content remain roughly the same for two years? What's our ideal kind of content?

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Knowledge Worker Agile Instructional Design eLearning Strategy 134

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I’m not quite sure that I buy the article’s contention that: The simple fact is that university lectures never worked that well in the first place – it’s just that for centuries, we didn’t have any better option for transmitting information. We can continue to hide behind the myth that our content is special and different.

Lecture 141

Lecture Corporate eLearning Internationalization Creative Commons 141

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

By way of background, Rapid Intake provides tools that allow you to very rapidly input content that is composed into courses. Table of contents is persistent on the iPad and is a pop-up on the iPhone. Yesterday, I saw what Rapid Intake is doing with their tools to allow authoring of Mobile Learning - what they call mLearning Studio.

Flash 225

Flash Rapid Intake Flash to HTML5 Conversion Mobile Learning 225

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

They are going after things like: specialized tools and content that meet particular industry or audience needs games and simulations web 2.0 approaches that leverage distributed content creation, social aspects as part of learning, collaborative learning and editing. What does this mean for high schools?

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eLearning Consultant eLearning Lecture Long Tail 173

Tony Karrer

MARCH 9, 2010

As part of the Big Question this month Open Content in Workplace Learning? , I’m exploring whether Open Content can be used by for-profit companies. And, since Open Content comes in under the Creative Commons license structure. Actually, I’m curious if Open Content ever is not Creative Commons? I’ve just never seen it.

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Creative Commons OCW Companies Corporate eLearning 127

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 24, 2009

Please let me know if I'm missing any blogs that produce good content on eLearning and more particularly Workplace eLearning that would make sense to include. And the Best Of feed provides a weekly summary with the top content from all of these sources. I would definitely welcome involvement of more content collectors.

Blogging 152

Blogging Corporate eLearning eLearning Consultant eLearning Strategy 152

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Aggregation and Social Filtering Provide High Value eLearning Learning has somewhat become my singular source of great eLearning content. I use it to filter and find all the best content on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. And a big part of the problem is just how many there are and how fast they change.

Text-to-Speech 200

Text-to-Speech Compliance Training Diversity Training SharePoint 200

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I received an interesting question from someone who is working on providing content to a remote sales force of about 40 people on topics such as selling process, products and selling skills. They currently provide some podcasts and video casts, but would like to track the new content that is being developed now. eLearning Technology.

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Track Podcasts Podcaster Podcasting 115

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. We will especially see a rapid growth in the use of wikis for content presentation. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 As such, eLearning 2.0

Predictions 183

Predictions Virtual Classroom Wiki eLearning 2.0 183

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Learning as a publisher of courses, content, etc. There's a lot of other content out there. How differentiated is the content that we produce from all of the Free Learning that's otherwise available? Is our content really that much better? The typical response of large publishers is that their content is better.

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Free OCW LearnTrends OER 107

Tony Karrer

MAY 18, 2015

Lot’s more content can be found on Micro-Learning on eLearning Learning , including it’s Top Ten articles. This week on eLearning Learning , the top two articles were funny to see side-by-side: You can find them on the Weekly Edition. Both articles may be interesting to read, but it also highlights how hot Micro-Learning is right now.

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Micro-Learning eLearning Strategy Corporate eLearning Learning Strategy 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 20, 2009

In each case, these are crude in that they look only at what terms people are using in a given content set. And now, because of eLearning Learning , I have a much better way to track these things over a much more interesting content sets. This works across any subset of the content including sources, keywords and arbitrary searches.

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Blended Learning Association Learning Management System Folksonomy eLearning Strategy 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Should go in the LMS - Only finished content. Learning paths: some competencies require that content is presented in a specific order, an order that could be hardly reproduced in informal learning by learners without direct guidance. Content that's associated with the course content.

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Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS Score 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 11, 2009

Rather, students were told that their role was to select and sample course content, pursuing areas of interest, reading related material from both within and outside the course, and then to contribute their unique perspective based on this reading. This was neither possible nor desirable.

Informal Learning 100

Informal Learning Informal Learning Technologies PLE 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

For most workplace eLearning the implication of this is that we are going to be getting asked a lot more about whether content will be accessible and work on other devices, e.g., mobile web access, home access, etc. How do we know what and where the content is? It’s a bit scary for people who are primarily content vendors.

Predictions 200

Predictions Diversity Training SharePoint Authoring Tools 200

Tony Karrer

JULY 30, 2009

You can see Allessandria at 21:30 of the following video: Intuit used to produce the content themselves, but they have transistioned to hiring their Accountants (their customers) to produce the training content for them. They add legitimacy to the content. These accountants are experts in using their software.

Outsource 106

Outsource Custom Training Train 106

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

Found via Publishing Enterprise Content To Facebook - Alfresco - a content management system has provided hooks for it to be used to deliver content to Facebook users. This model, where Facebook becomes a platform for application development has some really interesting aspects.

Social Networks 136

Social Networks Facebook Platform Enterprise 136

Tony Karrer

MAY 28, 2009

Based on the comments during the session, a few questions came up: Does Text to Speech work for longer form content? For what kinds of content? My conclusion - Text to Speech works for short bursts, not for longer amounts of content. Browse eLearning Content Captivate 4 contains built in Text to Speech.

Text-to-Speech 104

Text-to-Speech Feed2Podcast YAKiToMe Voice 104

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 16, 2009

I've been working with Beth Kanter on the creation of something similar to the eLearning Learning content community , but centered around the vibrant community that focuses on the use of technology in nonprofits. Browse eLearning Content at www.elearninglearning.com

Portal 100

Portal Technology Community Tagging 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 15, 2009

In this, Eric suggests the following minimum measures: Networking patterns - the relationship between people and content categories, the network make up or profile (business unit, job, level, etc), key brokers and influencers by content category, and the degree of networking across silos. eLearning Solutions Enterprise 2.0

Blended Learning 105

Blended Learning Social Learning Social Technology 105

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

This is the beginning of a community portal where the community will help to collect and organize the best content from blogs and web sites. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding eLearning. The content comes from other places.

Wiki 102

Wiki Social Networks eLearning Write Blog 102

Tony Karrer

APRIL 5, 2010

As part of last month’s big question Open Content in Workplace Learning? Recovery of nominal actual costs for copying small amounts (under 1000 copies) of OCW content on paper or CDs is allowed for educational purposes so long as there is no profit motive and so long as the intended use of the copies is in compliance with all license terms.

Creative Commons 144

Creative Commons License OCW Compliance Training 144

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The learners will get access to webinars, recorded webinars, videos, and other online content that they will author separately. They are early stage, so low-cost would be good.

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Low Cost IntraLearn Hosting Cornerstone OnDemand 122

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. We will especially see a rapid growth in the use of wikis for content presentation. So, let's try it again this year. #1 2 - eLearning 2.0

Predictions 125

Predictions Virtual Classroom Wiki Corporate eLearning 125

Tony Karrer

MARCH 24, 2009

Document sharing and collaborative editing Custom branding / image Ability to create groups and control access to those groups Shared calendars Invite other people into the network Moderation of content Exports (users, content) Some questions: What do you call this kind of solution? Browse eLearning Content.

Social Networks 102

Social Networks Social Network Network Social 102