Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

He tells us: I don't know much about the new system, but I understand that it is quite an overhaul; one estimate said we would need 80+ hours of face-to-face training. However, due to logistics, time, and money, it appears we will be training about 80% of these employees using a combination of self-study eLearning courses and webinars.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 25, 2010

Of course, it’s such a big topic that I decided to cheat and quickly point the person to eLearning Learning and particular to eLearning Sales , eLearning Sales Metrics , Sales eLearning Case Studies , and Sales Performance Support. What’s an instructional designer doing attending sales training? By Shelley A. Illustrate a concept.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 13, 2006

Previous studies have show that consuming caffeine can improve one's attention and enhance cognitive performance, with 200 milligrams (equivalent to two cups of coffee) being the optimal dose. Perfect for training situations!

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Strategy Strategies for learning and performance support: a summary Twitter in learning strategies: Yes or No? Strategy Strategies for learning and performance support: a summary Twitter in learning strategies: Yes or No? eLearning Technology.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I would claim that this is a perfect situation for Performance Support. And again, doing it as performance support makes a lot of sense. There’s a bit of training required to cover things like roles, alignment, how things work. But the majority of the assistance for social supporters is best provided through performance support.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The availability of cost-effective resources to facilitate wide collaboration (including open source software that enables wikis, discussion groups, chat and even web conferencing) presents the chance for organizations to reconsider the effectiveness of the performance support being offered to their people. More Multimedia 5.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2008

His major points were: Search is not an effective method for performers to find information. Integrating information closer to the work flow and work interface can improve performance. When in performance mode - they want more detail. Thus, you can't use the same content for both - EPSS needs more than training.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 16, 2009

Are there training departments? What will current members of training departments be doing in 10 years? Some people are suggesting getting rid of training departments and starting fresh. Others, including myself, don't believe training departments will go away any more than educational institutions will no longer exist.

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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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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I was talking with a startup that has an existing audience and now want to provide a monthly subscription for access to training to this audience. Here are some resources that I found that may help: LMS eCommerce Solution Product Review: Litmos LMS LMS For SMBs And Training Companies – A Year On, Is It Still The Same?

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

iPad (and iPhone) are Much More Useful Than I Expected I didn’t actually think that I would care about the iPad except as a tool for training and performance support in environments like retail and restaurants where it’s always been an issue having access to machines. Performance Support in 2015 What Makes an LMS Easy to Use?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Performance management. Learning and performance management converging finally. Rest cut training budgets during down economies. Is training organization taking a back seat? Best in class - training organization design. Looking out there for the information they need. And it sits there. That's not the norm.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

TrDev - Large, Moderated - Training and Development Discussion Group begun in October 2000. Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group - a large LinkedIn group for training professionals, including project managers, instructional designers, developers, learning environment engineers, learning officers and classroom trainers.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 5, 2009

Our tour guides and their topics are: Bob Mosher - Performance Support Tools Judy Brown - Mobile Learning Solutions Karl Kapp - Games and Simulations Tony Karrer - Self-Paced and Other eLearning Solutions Each tour guide will give a brief overview of what's happening out there and then we'll see examples.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

CUDA Business Brain CUDA technologies is a small software firm within the Hi Performance Learning and IQ Business Group in South Africa, the United Stated and Australia. In 2007, they launched the CUDA Business Brain as an integrated Workplace Performance Support Solution. They provide automated content distribution capability.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I spend a fair amount of my consulting time working with large organizations to help define how they will apply technology to particular business / performance / learning needs. You start the conversation by understanding what their real business, performance, talent and learning challenges are. Informal learning?

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases Due to economic pressures, companies are going to reduce training budgets to a point where it doesn't make sense to create content on marginal topics. How can you improve performance quickly and at low cost? The buzz is definitely increasing around this. Does anyone know or have the numbers?

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2008

Tony, you might drop all the e's to simplify the terminology, ending up with performance support, performance, development, and learning. Seems to me that the most critical learning is that which is in support of performance. For most people learning implies training ahead of and away from performance.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 29, 2008

I like the way he stepped through the transition from thinking in terms of courses to thinking about broader uses of technology to support performance. One of the end points on Clark's map is what he calls a Performance Ecosystem that he talks through at minute 54 in the talk. The concepts are fairly similar.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 3, 2009

It's interesting to see how these relate to and enhance the core elements of Deliberative Practice: Deliberate practice identifies specific, defined elements of performance that need to be improved and works them intently independent of actual performance. Goals are set around each element of performance.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 10, 2008

At the start of any performance improvement initiative, there is a question of whether the initiative is going to have real impact on what matters to the organization. Will the retail sales training change behavior in ways that improve customer satisfaction? Using a data driven approach to performance improvement is a passion of mine.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 26, 2011

I've discussed it in Disruptive Changes in Learning , Innovators' Dilemma in Learning/eLearning , Business of Learning , and Learning Performance Business Talent Focus. Responding to the Need for Speed I like where Glenn Hansen started his answer: Don’t assume that training is the answer. good luck with that.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 26, 2009

1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases Due to economic pressures, companies are going to reduce training budgets to a point where it doesn't make sense to create content on marginal topics. How can you improve performance quickly and at low cost? So, let's try it again this year. #1 2 - eLearning 2.0 Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

These can be one person shops that selling training to particular audiences. The real estate training company has cobbled together a solution. There also will likely be tools around: Creating performance support - Learning meets action. He would put out offers for an upcoming course that he would teach online.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2008

Searching on eperformance I ran across your 2003 LearningCircuits blog entries (E-Performance Essentials) separating eperformance into edevelopment, einteraction and esupport. I personally still like the term ePerformance, but it has not taken off and it has somewhat has been overloaded by optimization and performance review applications.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The panel description is: From Learning to Performance — Using Technology to Make It Happen Thursday November 12, 2009 01:15 PM Tridib Roy Chowdhury, Adobe Systems, Inc. Ruth Clark, Clark Training & Consulting David Metcalf, University of Central Florida Lance Dublin, Dublin Consulting Joe Ganci, Dazzle Technologies Corp.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

no but you can measure performance - but people aren't selling Performance management systems (those would be PMSs and marketing would NOT let that happen). And good luck with getting us to stop using the term learning instead of training. So learning is better than training as a term.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 9, 2007

Only slightly more seriously, consider the following graph that I often use in presentations to illustrate a point: Expenditure on training has a limit on the performance gains you can achieve. After a certain point, the cost of the Training exceeds the value of the performance gains.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 27, 2009

Holly and Monika will discuss a model for learning that integrates various learning strategies that combine formal, performance support and informal learning. Come join this interesting presentation and discussion around models for learning in a new world of learning. Presenters: Dr. Tony Karrer, TechEmpower, Inc.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 2, 2009

link] January 22-24, 2009 Training on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning , Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, India. link] eMarketingTechniques.com January 28-29, 2009 College and University Performance Conference , sponsored by the American Strategic Management Institute, Arlington, Virginia, USA. link] detail.asp?id=14883

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 24, 2006

A learning management system is probably the apex of top-down training. It places toll booths inbetween the learner and the knowledge he or she needs to perform their duties. the clear answer is that the LMS is a barrier to learning that provides management and reporting that corporate training functions want.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2009

US surveys show e-learning on the rise as training budgets fall - Clive on Learning , April 2, 2009 Thanks to Kineo for pointing me to the Market Update recently released by Ambient Insight which forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 16.3% Carly Shuler recently graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with an Ed.M.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 20, 2009

I've done a few posts in the past that take a look at the topics that are Hot Topics in Training. Back in 2007, I pointed out various aspects of what I was seeing: strategy/strategic and performance are back as topics after dropping way down in 2006 surprisingly trainer is also back, you would think in the age of eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 2, 2009

Michael Palko Solution Education Manager The Healthcare Business of Thomson Reuters Michael will talk about how he's using SharePoint to manage The Training Space, an internal learning community that connects and "cross pollinates" teams. How the university is beginning to make connections between training collaboration and knowledge-sharing.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 26, 2009

Before you start shutting down training departments, hiring Chief Learning Officers, and coining an umbrella term for different learning methods, you need to establish what you are actually talking about and why it is preferred over other methods. What is the difference between these five concepts?

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Tony Karrer

JULY 27, 2006

If you've attended Training, Performance, eLearning conferences over the past 10 years, I'm sure you've had the same experience of seeing the same presentations year-after-year. Many of them talk about: We need to focus on business outcomes and performance - not butts in seats. How to build your eTraining more cheaply.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 4, 2007

11% said they did NO evaluation 26% said they did Level 1 smile sheets 48% said they measured Level 2 learning 15% said they measured Level 3 on-the-job performance 0% said they measured Level 4 business results (or ROI) His discussion further points out that doing Level 2 assessment immediately at the end of training (i.e.,

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