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Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis

Tony Karrer

Adler's recent article - Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 talks about the implications of the Long Tail on Education. The article is definitely worth a read, and it got me to finally write about what I see as a crisis in corporate learning.

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Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape

Tony Karrer

Beth Griese - posted a response Is Learning 2.0 a long tail? to my post Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis. Beth tells us: I'm thinking of "topics" as anything that an organization's people would want to learn about for their jobs.

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Learning Power Laws

Tony Karrer

A shift of control to the edge of organizations. Several of them I regularly talk about: Amara’s Law ( backstory ) states that " we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. Requiring that we find ways to accomplish our goals using fewer resources. Business flux.

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Learning Responsibility

Tony Karrer

Likely a few different sources of this disconnect: Rest of the world doesn't expect (or look to) learning professionals for anything other than formal learning interventions. Can you push bottom-up learning from an L&D organization? I wanted to capture some thoughts as I've been reading these posts so far.

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Skimming and Learning Design

Tony Karrer

It also has an impact on Learning Design and Learning Organizations … more on this below. Of course, this is assuming that Learning Organizations are still in the position of being a publisher who is pushing content to learners. Read the Whole Thing ?

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Top 9 Posts You May Have Missed

Tony Karrer

6 - Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis Newspapers are failing by the day. The fat end of the long tail and the loss of attention is a critical issue that I'm not sure we are really ready to come to grips with. 7 - Second Life Learning Videos I still like these videos. #8

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Trends in Learning

Tony Karrer

Someone was just asking me about the big trends in learning and the implications of those trends on corporate learning and development. So, here's a bit of a compilation of some of the things I've been talking about in my blog which points to some of the major trends in learning. The whole problem is Long Tail Learning.

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