Tony Karrer

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Corporate Training

Tony Karrer

You have to support electronic offerings with mentors, guides, help desks, FAQs, reinforcement, and organizational support. To me eLearning definitely includes all of these other electronic means of providing support. I agree with Jay's sentiment here, but I'm not quite willing to go as far as Jay.

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eLearning Startup Opportunities

Tony Karrer

Cramster helps students with homework by providing answers to textbook questions and interactive support - think little pieces of eLearning for helping students figure out those problems. But there will be a lot more in things like mentoring, matching , getting quick help, micro-consulting. Chegg is basically Netflix for textbooks.

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Knowledge Management Core Issues

Tony Karrer

Communities of practice, incentives & recognition for personal mentoring, story collection and telling, cross-domain and silo sharing can be useful, but there needs to sustained executive drive and support for this to have an impact. Once again top level support, legitimization and walking the talk - leading via example is the key.

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Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant

Tony Karrer

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? What are they doing?

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Learning Responsibility

Tony Karrer

As Jacob McNulty said in Scope it Out: I feel that learning professionals should support learning. He points out that we have responsibility around: Wide range of approaches (resources and job aids, portals, knowledge management, eCommunity, coaching, mentoring, informal learning, etc.),

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Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind

Tony Karrer

Teams need to learn to support and understand each other's strengths and weaknesses. Collaborative learning environments and strategies such as virtual classrooms, discussion forums, mentoring and coaching need to be enabled and mandated as part of the learning experience.

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Hot List - April 1, 2009 to April 11, 2009

Tony Karrer

My Prerequisites for IDs , April 6, 2009 Ellen Wagner is a learning industry analyst with a passion for sustaining innovation and accelerating enterprise adoption of technologies for education, training and performance support. This is her blog. Chatting , April 10, 2009 Last night we held the first #lrnchat , a Twitter learning chat.