Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Flexibility and extensibility Web browser platform Aggregation/Mashups Ease of use Several thoughts jumped out at me: The concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools. But, too much structure is not going to work.

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PWLE PLE Knowledge Work Mashups 107

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

I thought I'd kick off this year by posting a series of posts on topics related to tools and methods for work and learning. I'm hoping to address questions such as: How do you create a personal tool set or Personal Learning Environment (PLE) for yourself? What should be in your tool set? What is a Tool Set?

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PWLE PLE Tools PKM 122

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. Consider the following: Corporate learning functions today act like a publisher / distributor.

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Long Tail Attention Corporate Learning Corporate eLearning 111

Tony Karrer

APRIL 8, 2009

While it talks in terms of SharePoint, really the patterns described relate to all different types of tools. #2 A search tool other than Google that I use, when and why. Hip learning trend during the past that was way over hyped. 6 - Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis Newspapers are failing by the day.

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PWLE Long Tail eLearning 2.0 PLE 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 9, 2007

There's some great discussion happening around the issues of control and resulting ownership of work product as we create personal work learning environments. Enterprises that love PLE's Cross battles Downes: is corporate learning corrupt?

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Learning Environment Discussion Environment PWLE 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 7, 2007

Stephen Downes commented on my recent post - Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion and said - I am opposed to the trend coming from the corporate learning side of the house to treat PLEs as work tools. You have to make the content be somewhat generic since it's public.

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Firewalls Wiki Corporate eLearning PLE 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

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 Applications in Learning (24) Free - Web 2.0 Applications in Learning (24) Free - Web 2.0

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Long Tail eLearning 2.0 100