Tony Karrer

JUNE 20, 2006

and Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids , I've realized that one of the mental models I use can be roughly summarized by the following picture: where Ease is roughly how easy (cost, time) is it to develop using that approach and Power is the ability of the tool to provide robust, complex learning solutions.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 17, 2007

I just saw a post by Karl Kapp that discusses the fact that there's a shortage of IT professionals. Some facts he cites: In September 2006, IT employment stood at 3,667,100 up 4.2%

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 2, 2009

link] development/courses/ registrar101.cfm link] February 9-March 7, 2009 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) Managing the Registrar’s Office : How to Do More with Less, online course, [link] development/courses/managing. link] org/conference/2009Spring- index.cfm February ?, html February ?,

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Conference eLearning Conferences Blended Learning Diversity Training 121

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Last week I moderated an event on Web 2.0 where we had speakers from IBM, Google, Microsoft, Sony and others talking about what it really means (especially for corporations). One of the most interesting things was the Enterprise Mashup demonstration by Rod Smith at IBM.

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Mashups Mash-up eLearning 2.0 IBM 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

May outsource some of the production work, but the tool must be an off-the-shelf, known authoring tool - no proprietary tools (see eLearning Course Development for rationale on that) Their only experience is with Camtasia. No real video editing experience. What would you recommend?

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eLearning Tools Authoring Video Wiki 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 6, 2011

The first couple of responses to this month's LCBQ Addressing I Want it Now #LCBQ have come in and Kasper Spiro's caught my eye: On demand: agile e-Learning development #LCBQ. Like Kasper, I'm very familiar with Agile in software development. I was not as familiar with it in terms of eLearning development.

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Agile Instructional Design ADDIE eLearning 214

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I went back and looked at what I had written before on eLearning Strategy and saw that I had said at the time: 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. I've really been striking out. I'm hoping that people will help out.

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eLearning Strategy Compliance Training Strategy eLearning Consultant 222

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

link] December 4-8, 2010 National Staff Development Council , Atlanta, Georgia, USA. link] December 13-16, 2010 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), hosted by ICT4D Collective and UNESCO, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom. Charles, Missouri, USA.

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eLearning Conferences Conference Blended Learning Cyber Security Training 217

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 24, 2009

eLearning Acupuncture Breakthrough eLearning Discovery Through eLearning eLearning Weekly Engaged Learning eLearning Community 2.0 eLearning Acupuncture Breakthrough eLearning Discovery Through eLearning eLearning Weekly Engaged Learning eLearning Community 2.0

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Blogging Corporate eLearning eLearning Consultant eLearning Strategy 152

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 24, 2011

This seems to be backed up by The LCMS at a Crossroads : Our research has shown that content management needs vary widely from company to company, and some organizations are well served by some combination of social and collaboration platforms, portals, and the lightweight content management functionalities now common to rapid development tools.

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LCMS SharePoint Management System 147

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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Courseware Predictions Version Network 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

TrDev - Large, Moderated - Training and Development Discussion Group begun in October 2000. Courseware Development - Smaller LinkedIn group started by Ted Kopp interested in courseware design and development. Courseware Development - Smaller LinkedIn group started by Ted Kopp interested in courseware design and development.

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Community Ning Instructional Design eLearning Guild 105

Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2008

My experience is that talent management is more focused on performance review, succession planning, recruitment, retention, and other HR processes - less on specific learning / development. Tony asked the audience - how many know the key strategies of your organization and then key metrics of your business.

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ASTD Management Metrics Conference 177

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

But in this post, I want to consider: We developed CoSolvent because we couldn’t find a reliable way move rich media (typically video) to and from the individual subject matter experts (SMEs) and managers among our various corporate training clients. And there developers are geographically dispersed.

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SharePoint LCMS Digital Management 102

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

I pointed to Scribd switching from Flash to HTML, and pointed to their CTO Jared Friedman saying: "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. About a year ago, I wrote about the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash.

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Flash Rapid Intake Flash to HTML5 Conversion Mobile Learning 225

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

This model, where Facebook becomes a platform for application development has some really interesting aspects. Especially with some of the pain of developing Facebook apps. However, the open aspect of OpenSocial likely will win out in the long run.

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Social Networks Facebook Platform Enterprise 136

Tony Karrer

MARCH 2, 2009

Allison Anderson Manager Leadership Learning Environments Intel Using SharePoint as a one-stop-stop for our Career Development instructors around the globe, to access the tools and resources they need. Community members contribute their own unique experience and draw from the group’s collective intelligence using all the tools that web 2.0

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SharePoint Ning Specialist Site 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2008

toolset for yourself and your organization Who Should Attend Leaders responsible for organizational learning and development Individuals seeking to improve their own skill and knowledge About the Facilitator Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a software, web and eLearning development firm based in Los Angeles.

Social Networks 188

Social Networks Wiki eLearning 2.0 Social Bookmarking 188

Tony Karrer

JUNE 23, 2010

My posts around the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash and my post from a CTO perspective that I Cannot Bet on Flash for new development stirred up quite a bit of response. A lot of it said quite correctly that HTML5 is not there yet. And that Flash provides things that you can’t do in HTML/JavaScript.

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Flash Flash to HTML5 Conversion Authorware HTML 110

Tony Karrer

JULY 13, 2010

, October 23, 2008 Using Toolkits to Aggregate Learning Resources , February 6, 2009 Enterprise Wiki as Intranet - a success story , September 20, 2007 Lurking and loafing , March 9, 2010 Activities, Workflows and Structured Wikis (Augmented Social Cognition) , February 9, 2009 Wikis for Improving Productivity - Experiencing eLearning , June 10, 2008 (..)

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Wiki Case Study Resources Social Networks 192

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

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. Example #8 "Degree of Freedom E-Lecture with Animated Agent" - a bit older with an animated agent. Want to See Your Course as an Example?

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Text-to-Speech Examples Voice PowerPoint 193

Tony Karrer

APRIL 20, 2010

Question 1 - As the notion of “learning as an event” begins to be replaced with true “just-in-time” learning, (in the form of learning communities and availability to portals of knowledge and information) do you think off-the-shelf eLearning programs in professional skill development will continue to be one component of a learning solution?

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Simulations Trends Games Social 123

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

terms, I believe there's merit to using them if only to indicate the substantial impact that these things will have on organizations and particularly on Learning and Development. It's really about the fact that learning and development leaders have an opportunity to embrace 2.0. These workers direct their own learning.

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Enterprise 2.0 Long Tail LearnTrends Firewalls 105

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

AUGUST 25, 2010

A Formula for Storytelling in eLearning - Integrated Learnings , April 6, 2010 When a client asked our team to develop a sales skills enhancement course, we opted to base the training on the methods of the most successful sales person in the department. Most action plans last four to six weeks. By Shelley A. Refer to Figure 3.0 Figure 3.0.

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Blended Learning Sales Case Study Diversity Training 173

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 29, 2008

Based on my post LMS RFP , I've been asked several times if I knew where you could find samples of Request for Proposals (RFPs) for custom eLearning development, performance support tools, learning content management systems (LCMS), elearning authoring tools , etc. Today the question was for Microsoft Project.

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RFP Examples Sample Scanning 100

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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Conference Web Resources Social Networks 199

Tony Karrer

JULY 29, 2008

So when they say the same things of the management development programme they have asked me to develop, but getting access to SMEs and stakeholders is like pulling teeth, well then I have a hard time believing them. As I'm thinking about it - likely it's a treasure trove for anyone starting out being an eLearning developer / designer.

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Management Training Train Attention 100

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 31, 2009

Someone was just asking me about the big trends in learning and the implications of those trends on corporate learning and development. I initially said - "Look at my blog," but when I looked, I realized it might be a bit harder than I thought to pull out the central themes. Social Learning Measurement is still an issue.

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Trends Blended Learning Social Networks eLearning 2.0 121

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Harold Jarche had a great post If learning was free that raises questions that need to be continually asked by learning and development around the issues of Free. Harold tells us: Anybody see a parallel here with instructional systems design or curriculum development? In the Business of Learning , I compared publishing and learning.

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Free OCW LearnTrends OER 107

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Yes, Obama Says!) - ZaidLearn , May 16, 2009 Sakai 3 Development Process - Experiencing eLearning , June 9, 2009 How Big is Moodle? I had previously written about Low Cost LMS and Rapid Learning Management Systems , but I receive an inquiry from someone who had a very constrained budget and wanted to build an eLearning Portal.

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Open Source LMS Open Moodle 100

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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Text-to-Speech Authoring Tools WAV Adobe Captivate 124

Tony Karrer

APRIL 5, 2010

Example: A corporation may use OCW materials for internal professional development and training purposes. For those of us in eLearning, the key line is “A corporation may use OCW materials for internal professional development and training purposes.” Incidental charges to recover reasonable reproduction costs may be permitted.

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Creative Commons License OCW Compliance Training 144

Tony Karrer

MAY 1, 2009

On May 21, Learn Trends will be hosting a free online event where the people who have developed interesting eLearning solutions will demonstrate and briefly discuss what they've done. One of the hardest things to find are real-life examples of different kinds of eLearning solutions. These are most often the hardest examples to see.

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Social Networks eLearning Toolkit Social Network 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 19, 2009

The Truth About Twitter - Social Enterprise Blog , May 11, 2009 Twitter Tips: for Teachers & Educators - Don't Waste Your Time , May 9, 2009 Twitter and Webinars - eLearning Technology , May 14, 2009 Developing a PLE Using Web 2.0 Tools - Don't Waste Your Time , May 10, 2009.

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Twitter Social Networks LinkedIn TechSmith 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Adventures in Corporate Education Breakthrough eLearning Clive on Learning Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development Courseware Development Discovery Through eLearning e-Clippings (blogoehlert) eContent eLearning Acupuncture eLearning Community 2.0

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Apache Roller Bea Pages Informal 100

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

Flash 157

Flash Flash to HTML5 Conversion Social Networks Flash Player 157