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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

that have paid, professional editors, writers are better quality than alternatives for the specific content that they cover. Free Learning may not be as high a quality – although I would claim that LearnTrends and WorkLiteracy filled niches. OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning. And yes, Britannica, New York Times, etc.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

Here’s the series: Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality , Digital Signal Processor and Text-to-Speech , Using Text-to-Speech in an eLearning Course , Text-to-Speech eLearning Tools - Integrated Products , Text-to-Speech vs Human Narration for eLearning , and Using Punctuation and Mark-Up Language to Increase Text-to-Speech Quality.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

Essentially telling the CEO – we’ll produce more and better quality – but it’s not going to cost any more. Prediction #9 => Open Content I’m not sure why this already hasn’t had a bigger impact, but workplace learning is going to start to catch up on the value of OCW and OER. And as the saying goes - “it flows downhill from there.”