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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. Background If you are not familiar with the concept of the Long Tail, head over to take a look at the Long Tail article on Wikipedia.

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2009 Top Posts and Topics

Tony Karrer

Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank eLearning Portal Integration Data Driven Notable Topics for 2009 Work Skills and Knowledge Work Work Skills Keeping Up?

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Case study: How one learning approach at Warner Bros. Discovery delivered career value during a major transformation

CLO Magazine

This learning initiative was an opportunity to break out of the norm and expand our knowledge of each other by utilizing everyone’s skills, strengths and interests. We started the journey with the following: ● What were each team member’s skills, strengths, and interests. 4) Storytelling strategies.

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Learning Power Laws

Tony Karrer

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. " – I cite this in Work Skills Keeping Up? and Adoption of Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0

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Learning Responsibility

Tony Karrer

and Promoting a culture of learning Developing learners as learners (or as I would put it - building learning skills) What's interesting is that there seems to be a disconnect from what is being said in these posts and the reality of what is going on out in various worlds, corporate, education, etc.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Outcomes-based activities that demonstrate the applicant’s knowledge and skills will become a component of best-practice recruitment. Content providers will wag the long tail. Employers will consider certificates of completion meaningless, while maintaining a reserved suspicion over assessment scores.

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Skimming and Learning Design

Tony Karrer

This also means that a key skill is develop better memory methods that help us individually deal with the fact that we are skimming more stuff and will have an ever increasing need to quickly get back to it. And likely the answer is that it also depends on the topic, length of the item, the timing, and way too many other variables.

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