Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Lisa Neal asked a great question in a comment on Learn Trends 2008 - Free Online Conference : What do you see as the main differences between in person and online conferences? Now, don't get me wrong, I still very much like to do in-person conferences. Threaded discussions are more effective and normally you don't have these in-person.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 29, 2007

I've been reading a lot over the past few months around Personal Learning Environments and a lot of related material. world that included a post by Bill Ives - Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? In it, he points out that a stepping stone to Enterprise 2.0

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 23, 2007

Ray Sims has a great post on Personal Learning Environment and personal learning environments. We definitely need easier, starter versions of personal learning support - but starter versions that head you in the right direction longer term. very much aligns with my mental model. This is a great point. Great stuff Ray.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 9, 2007

There's some great discussion happening around the issues of control and resulting ownership of work product as we create personal work learning environments. Enterprises that love PLE's Cross battles Downes: is corporate learning corrupt?

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Learning Environment Discussion Environment PWLE 100

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 29, 2006

His sentiments echo much of what I've been saying around Course and Courseware Fading - The Future of eLearning and Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning Professionals. Interesting post by Harold Jarche on PKM and Informal Learning.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 16, 2007

Found via Jack Vinson - 9 Mistakes That Can Kill Your Personal Growth - definitely worth a read. But I read it with the context of Personal Learning.

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Personal Learning Scanning Personal Personalization 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 23, 2006

A couple of interesting recent posts and my experience in my Collaborative Learning Class has me thinking about the usefulness of Tags both personally and in workgroups. A closely related great series of articles can be found at What are the Personal Benefits of Tagging? - I completely agree with Bill's assessment, del.icio.us

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 10, 2007

This continues the discussion being had around PLE/PWLEs - see More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments for a bit of recap. Clearly this is a different use of PLE's than those outside the firewall, for free rangers, and for learning from everything of personal interest. Stephen tells us. and Michelle says.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 21, 2006

We need more pragmatic suggestions like I was trying to do in: Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 And I have see lots of examples of tools out there, but I don't see lots of adoption nor do I see the practical strategies.

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Personal Learning Personal Personalization Strategy 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2006

If you read what is coming out in discussions of Informal Learning , Personal Learning Environments , eLearning 2.0 , all of them point that personal learning (or self-directed learning or learning how to learn) is where we should focus our attention to get the greatest effect. I'm looking for Lifehacker for personal learning.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 14, 2007

I've recently been dealing with naming for a start-up and ran across a WSJ article - You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well. Given how hard it is to figure out business names, reading this was a little scary: So when Ms.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 23, 2006

Before I get too far, let me express a personal bias, shortcoming, style, or whatever you want to call it that has a big impact on how I decide to spend my time when I'm creating content: I'm far too impatient to sit through an audio (MP3 or embedded) that goes along with a presentation deck. But let's drill down on this a bit.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 16, 2017

It's personally gratifying to see this happening. Although many bloggers will tell you it's one of the top personal learning tools. These awards will recognize the Most Valuable Posts (MVP) as judged by readers and the well respect judges. You can find details on nominations by visiting the page. Clearly that was not true.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 18, 2006

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 23, 2017

If you are interested in the latest thinking and trends on Learning Management Systems, you should take a couple minutes to sign up on eLearning Learning and then personalize your subscription with LMS as a topic. And hopefully the tools will grow to include greater value without frustrating users. eLearning Technology.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 29, 2012

This is reinforced by Goals Accountability and Social Support for Big Impact where I used the responses to a monthly Big Question to arrive at the following as the basis for driving behavior change: Guide through setting meaningful personal goals Teach how you can hold yourself accountable to those goals Help the user set up social support Teach the (..)

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Behavior Change System Online 180

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

I'm hoping to address questions such as: How do you create a personal tool set or Personal Learning Environment (PLE) for yourself? Setting up a SharePoint for a community or work team is very different from teaching them about Personal Learning. It depends heavily on the person, the job, the needs, etc.

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PWLE PLE Tools PKM 122

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

I'm used to presenting in-person where the audience is highly engaged, taking notes, etc. I've talked about this in Online Conferences and In-Person Conferences and made the comment that: In-person conferences have an advantage of getting more attention from the attendees. The last bullet is probably the biggest change here.

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Multitasking LearnTrends Online Yammer 133

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 19, 2010

Don't you think that a person with an accredited PhD and has real world experience should be a top candidate versus a PhD who has been going to school for the last 10 years? They are likely referencing my statement back in 2006: I personally hire mostly folks with undergraduate degrees and mostly they are technical. But look closely.

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Online eLearning Certification Internationalization Distance Learning 106

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 5, 2010

There’s some good information back in Online Conferences and In-Person Conferences , Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee , Online Conference Formats , and Conference Preparation. This is where a good prep person along with a good moderator can really help. Assign people into roles. Technical Issues.

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Conference Elluminate Effectiveness Online 227

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 11, 2010

For example, “The person you are supporting just missed their check-in. Big Impact Certainly, it’s way easier to build some online training around all of this than to build a performance support solution that helps people set goals and plans, and setups up personal and social accountability.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Based on the second criterion, the TTS vendors work with the following two general usage categories: Personal Use - reading books, making sound files for personal use, etc. Examples of products that use voices with personal license are: Natural Reader , TextAloud , Read the Words , and Spoken Text. This is a low value usage.

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Text-to-Speech License Cost ADL 119

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 6, 2006

I personally hire mostly folks with undergraduate degrees and mostly they are technical. I look at the individual first and foremost - but that said - I definitely am looking for an undergraduate degree from an in-person program first and foremost. I am very curious what other people think about this.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 10, 2011

Key aspects: Individual eCommerce - someone can go on and buy the course just for themselves Group eCommerce - someone can go on and buy a block of courses that can be taken by people in their organization Pricing will need to be variable Group reporting - the person who bought for the organization should be able to see who's taken, completed, etc.

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Solution LMS Compliance Training Low Cost 105

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool Tool Set 2009 Knowledge Work Types LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers SharePoint Using SharePoint SharePoint Examples SharePoint Fear and Loathing by Learning Professionals 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 Long Tail Long Tail Blogging is Dying? I’m including posts from December 2008.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

His requirements for a PLE Framework include: Personalization Social features Social filtering I ncorporate various Web 2.0 The concept of a Personal Learning Environment Framework gets it even farther from some actual system. concepts and technologies (mashups, widgets, aggregation, OpenID, RSS, etc.) But that's the exception.

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PWLE PLE Knowledge Work Mashups 107

Tony Karrer

MAY 12, 2009

This was the only person ever to have mentioned it to me, and for the life of me I still can't see the person's POV on it. Again, the situation is a quick decision (less than a second) where you look at the person and decide if you will spend more time on this. Names It's safest to use your name.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 14, 2009

They measured to what extent these teams accessed electronic documents and how much they sought personal advice from other consultants in the firm. They figured that, surely, accessing more knowledge must be helpful, right? But our findings dispute the claim that different types of knowledge are substitutes for each other.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 20, 2010

In fact, I don’t believe these are even called templates, so … What would you call what this person is looking for? How would this person find SharePoint templates that they could use / modify for their purposes? Please help. eLearning Technology.

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SharePoint Templates Write Blog Predictions 107

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

But it was clear from the conversations that we've not quite made the shift to thinking about personal work and learning environments (PWLE) - see: PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning , Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion and Personal Work and Learning Environments.

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SharePoint PWLE eLearning 2.0 Diversity Training 133

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 11, 2010

It’s NOT because of personalized search. I did a search for rapid eLearning and the following is a screen shot showing the results with arrows added for one that I really don’t understand. There have to be all sorts of great jokes about what this implies about Rapid eLearning, Articulate, etc. By the way, I had logged out at the time.

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Rapid eLearning Search Google eLearning 112

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

And if you are like me, you can't visit the site all the time, so you should sign up for a Personalized Newsletter on the right. But the important thing is that there's still great content on the site every day - oh hey, Karl Kapp just wrote about Gamification - hold on, let me check that out.

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Network Newsletter eLearning Site 136

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Way too much work for me personally, but I understand the value. It starts with automated personal emails. What no normal Raisin Bran cereal. It took me a bunch of tries to find that I needed to type in the brand of cereal first. Entering the sandwich I made for lunch. I wonder if this gets lost a little. And lots of use of community.

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Behavior Training Train Community 243

Tony Karrer

JULY 27, 2010

Personal TTS Readers Not Licensed for eLearning Some readers may be wondering why we haven’t mentioned the TTS “personal reader” products such as: Natural Reader , TextAloud , Read the Words , and Spoken Text as possibilities for eLearning tools. But it still takes work.

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Text-to-Speech Authoring Tools WAV Adobe Captivate 124

Tony Karrer

APRIL 30, 2009

I enrolled about a year ago ( Twitter Status ) and I've personally struggled a bit with the purpose, value, etc. Thus, my opinion is: Twitter is not a tool for people who are new to social media and the use of social media for personal learning and work. There is one exception to this.

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Twitter Social Media eLearning Tools Learning 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

For a person who I generally think is pretty smart Thomas Davenport (his book Thinking for a Living is generally quite good), I find him saying some pretty weak things. I never initiate a "connection," but I dutifully accept invitations to connect, even when I don't know the person. Only one person had his hand raised.

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Social Networks LinkedIn Social Network Network 116

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Is the person doing the conversion already familiar with the ILT course? Is the person doing the conversion already familiar with the product or service being taught? Will the person doing the conversion be dedicated to this project exclusively? Is the person doing the conversion familiar with the e-learning software?

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ILT Convert Compliance Training Brandon Hall 104