Tony Karrer

JUNE 23, 2009

eLearning Learning Hot List June 12, 2009 to June 19, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. Business Casual , June 14, 2009 Brain rule #12 - Clive on Learning , June 12, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 26, 2009

Here are the top items via eLearning Learning. Adult Learning in the Workplace – Research Findings Top Keywords PKM eLearning Tools Informal Learning Swish Adobe Captivate Twitter LinkedIn Tools Harbinger Adobe Google Articulate Microsoft eLearning Technology.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

[link] or [link] December 1, 2010 UNESCO-Commonwealth of Learning Policy Form on Open Educational Resources (OER): Taking OER beyond the OER Community – Policy and Capacity, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France. www.online-educa.com December 1-3, 2010 Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture , Rome, Italy.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 12, 2008

I often suggest learning blogs (see Learning and Networking With A Blog (T+D article) and Personal Learning Strategies ). In other words, blogs are a fantastic tool for Personal Learning. I often suggest during presentations that starting a blog at the beginning of any learning endeavor is a great move.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 19, 2009

Hot List - May 8, 2009 to May 15, 2009 Once again, used eLearning Learning to generate a list of the best from last week. The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. Tools - Don't Waste Your Time , May 10, 2009.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 30, 2007

Horizontal technologies for learning. In the eLearning sector many vendors have created eLearning solutions primarily for educational institutions. These technologies are supposedly designed for learning but that is not true. The concept of Learning Management System (LMS) was wrongly named. Interesting post. Quite true.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I was just reading a post - Top 5 tips to gain buy in for learning with social media. Instead, one of the things that I Learned about Learning in 2009 and was an important eLearning Predictions for 2010 was to “Be a Jack”. I detailed it in Selling Learning Communities – Not Everyone Will or Wants a Group Hug.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2009

Presentation: Blogs in Education - Don't Waste Your Time , May 22, 2009 Implementing New Learning Technology? Choose the Right Pilot Group - Kapp Notes , May 22, 2009 Capture Examples - eLearning Technology , May 29, 2009 Twitter: The #1 Tool for Learning - Upside Learning Blog , May 26, 2009 Adobe eLearning Suite: is it worth it?

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 10, 2008

The big question for March 2008 is - Scope of Learning Responsibility? So far the posts have generally suggested a fairly broad view of responsibility for learning professionals. As Jacob McNulty said in Scope it Out: I feel that learning professionals should support learning. Or is it just me?

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Tony Karrer

MAY 15, 2007

Saw Thomson Corp exists Learning Market on Learning Reflections. Not only have they just completed the sale of their NETg subsidiary to SkillSoft for $270 million , but they have also announced they are selling Higher Education assets of Thomson Learning to a couple of venture funds for $7.75

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 8, 2008

We've implemented a few features in the eLearning Learning Community. 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.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 16, 2009

The Big Question this month is Workplace Learning in 10 Years : If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? What will the mix of Push vs. Pull Learning; Formal vs. Informal supported by the organization?

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

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. John Seely Brown and Richard P.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 26, 2006

Found via: Big Dog, Little Dog - a very interesting article: Why Minimal Guidance during Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching - Educational Psychologist It points out that open learning environments may not be good ways for people to learn.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 3, 2007

Here's the question: I am the Manager of Education and Training in a non-profit that serves homeless youth and whose mission is to get the kids off the streets by offering services which include getting their GED. Our need is also to make the learning process fun! Any recommendations?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

I just read through a great post by Rich Hoeg which talks about his learning around Second Life.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I blogged about this before on LCB - The Innovator's Dilemma of Learning , but the recent discussion in Product Vendor Blogs - Where are They? the information explosion, needed changes to education, etc., A leap is needed. And most leaps don't come from within large, established players. If you look at what's happening with Web 2.0,

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

While George does talk about challenges in education, I think he misses part of the point of the article. Maybe that’s because I’ve learned a lot in schools that way. But even if you keep lectures, but you open up everyone to the Best Lecture available on a given topic … The implications here for education are profound.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 31, 2011

Continuing Education Requirements Requirement #1: The LMS needs the ability to apply multiple types of continuing education credits to a single course, have the user select multiple types of credits to obtain and print certificates with the appropriate wording for the desired credit(s). eLearning Technology.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 7, 2007

I'm helping George Siemens to organize a free, online conference - Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations , Nov. Duke Corporate Education and TechEmpower (my company) are sponsoring and assisting in organizing the event. 15 - 20, 2007. The conference will be held fully online (with live presentations and asynchronous discussions).

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Using eLearning Learning , I thought it would be interesting to go look what it thinks are some of the top items of all time. Learning 2.0 - The Things How we read online. - Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 11, 2009

eLearning Technology was nominated in two categories: Best eLearning / Corporate Education Blog 2009 Best Resource Sharing Blog 2009 LearnTrends was nominated for: Best Educational Use of Audio Best Educational Use of a Social Networking Service I also appreciated that several people nominated eLearning Learning for various categories.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 28, 2008

Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. Keeping Up with the Pace of Change Informal learning will help employees survive in the future workplace 3. Understanding E-Learning 2.0 There are some very interesting changes going on in the world of e-learning that seem to have crept up on practitioners.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 21, 2006

I just saw Harold Jarche's post: Adult Learning - pressing issues and where the field is headed, in two sentences. His two (actually three) sentences: The overwhelming majority of the learning needs of Canadian adults are not addressed by formal training and education. However, I feel like we are failing miserably in this area.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 22, 2010

The industry, which includes tutoring in such fields such as special education, language, and music, grew about 7 percent last year. And it seems like there are lots of eLearning Startups that are taking aim at different aspects of the Business of Learning. DreamBox Learning is an education start-up that provides math games for kids.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

approaches that leverage distributed content creation, social aspects as part of learning, collaborative learning and editing. Technology's Impact on Learning and Education is Greatly Underestimated We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 7, 2007

He has a wonderful background including being director of eLearning at Root Learning and working for Masie organizing events. When creating an e-learning module, there are dozens, maybe even hundreds of pages of material required to document what is to be created. He is now CEO of Vizthink - and is organizing and running VizThink '08.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2008

Applications in Learning. Existing Adoption At the very start I asked the audience for examples of where they were currently using these tools as part of learning solutions. We had some good discussion around how you might use these tools alongside formal learning. It could just as easily have been called Web 2.0

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 5, 2010

As part of last month’s big question Open Content in Workplace Learning? Most other educational institutions have similar pages, albeit not always with the same degree of examples as MIT. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs. Commercialization is prohibited.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 28, 2009

In case you missed any of these great posts last week - here's a recap of what the top stuff was from eLearning Learning. Enterprise: List of 40 Social Media Staff Guidelines , April 23, 2009 Twitter As a Learning Tool. 2009 - ASTD , April 21, 2009 The Web: Design for Active Learning , April 17, 2009 Do Learning Styles exist? .

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 27, 2009

It's very common for organizations to require completion of some number of hours of learning as part of a certification, continuing education or compliance. B) “E-learning” training is individualized, interactive, computer-based training created by a trainer and an instructional designer. There are many, many examples out there.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Just a quick note that I will be up in Vancouver for E-LEARN 2009 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs. If you are attending and see this post, please drop me a note.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 14, 2006

Harold Jarche wrote an interesting article The relevance of the learning profession that received a fair amount of attention in various blogs. The challenge for learning professionals will be to change their toolsets from prescriptive to supportive. Enabling learning is no longer about disseminating good content.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 5, 2009

Here is the best stuff from last week via eLearning Learning. Business Casual , April 25, 2009 Fantastic File Converter - eLearning Acupuncture , April 24, 2009 Call for eLearning Demonstrations - eLearning Technology , May 1, 2009 When should you use Informal Learning? . 4) Social Networks (23) Adoption (8) eLearning Technology.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 2, 2009

SharePoint in Corporate Learning One of the hardest things for me to find are good examples of how people are really using web 2.0 This is a great opportunity to hear lots of examples of what they are doing with SharePoint around Corporate Learning in a wide variety of organizations. inside organizations. has to offer.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

She is a graduate student in adult education and learning technologies at the University of Colorado. This is a GREAT educational tool to use associated with a class. I did something similar in my Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 This is a great way to learn how to do this outside of a class environment.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2009

So, here's the hot list for April 1 - April 11 via eLearning Learning. Although everyone learns most from their mistakes, it does save a lot of money if you keep some tips in the back of your mind. Building Better Learning Games - Learning Visions , April 9, 2009 Interested in building casual games for your learners?

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