Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 11, 2009

eLearning Technology was nominated in two categories: Best eLearning / Corporate Education Blog 2009 Best Resource Sharing Blog 2009 LearnTrends was nominated for: Best Educational Use of Audio Best Educational Use of a Social Networking Service I also appreciated that several people nominated eLearning Learning for various categories.

LearnTrends 102

LearnTrends Social Networks Technology Corporate eLearning 102

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 2, 2009

link] March 16-19, 2009 International Workshop on Intelligent, Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS2009), Fukuoka, Japan. link] googlepages.com/imis09 March 16-20, 2009 Association of Research Libraries Service Quality Evaluation Academy , Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. link] conference/ April ?,

Conference 121

Conference eLearning Conferences Blended Learning Diversity Training 121

Tony Karrer

JUNE 18, 2009

Software/Services CxOs Vendors who provide other kinds of software or services to corporations * What new offerings are they selling or trying to sell? Training CEOs who run companies that sell particular training offerings to corporations * What new offerings are they selling or trying to sell?

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Business Courseware Corporate eLearning 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Jack Merklein from Xerox Global Services did a really great presentation at LearnTrends 2009 entitled - Common tools for Diverse Communities at Xerox Global Services. You can find the LearnTrends 2009 Recording including Jack’s presentation. A few follow-up thoughts.

Community 123

Community LearnTrends Diversity Training Wiki 123

Tony Karrer

JULY 13, 2009

It’s clear to thrive they need to focus on business critical issues for the organization, provide solutions provide real value, differentiate their offerings, and look at ways to provide value beyond being a publisher of courses and courseware. However, that’s easier said than done.

Conference 102

Conference Free Online DDI 102

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

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. It also wires into an online community and tutoring services. We'll see startups providing rating systems, filtering systems, etc.

eLearning Consultant 173

eLearning Consultant eLearning Lecture Long Tail 173

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 11, 2010

It’s one thing when you provide a blank space to write your goals when you are in a classroom and there’s a teacher who can help you. We provide suggestions for particular interventions that have specific steps and particular associated goals. It can provide them some strategies. Yes, I’m yelling – it’s really that bad.

Performance Support 167

Performance Support Support Social Association 167

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. They will only convert a portion of the audience to the new service.

Low Cost 122

Low Cost IntraLearn Hosting Cornerstone OnDemand 122

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 25, 2010

Technical Approaches and Case Studies for Sales eLearning Sales Team Portal for Content and Expert Access - eLearning Technology , October 12, 2009 I wanted to share some discussions I've recently had around an interesting project where the company provided the sales team a collaboration, content distribution and expert access portal.

Blended Learning 173

Blended Learning Sales Case Study Diversity Training 173

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

10 Predictions for 2011: Trends that Will Reshape the Training Industry Total spending for training services will increase by an estimated 7-9%. The explosion in the world of mobile learning (mLearning) is fueled by the numbers, but also by the need to provide new kinds of learning and support that can be used at the point of need.

Predictions 198

Predictions Diversity Training Compliance Training Authoring Tools 198

Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2009

That clause says: I have a responsibility to provide unbiased content in my blog, presentations and consulting. Upside Learning – Advisor discussing product and services direction, positioning and product marketing. All relationships will be disclosed and transparent. Browse eLearning Content

Firewalls 100

Firewalls eLearning Consultant Write Blog Adobe 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

It provided high value for me and hopefully value for people reading it. Aggregation and Social Filtering Provide High Value eLearning Learning has somewhat become my singular source of great eLearning content. Instead, Joel would write it up. I’d ask questions and edit it. I’m looking forward to doing more of this going forward.

Text-to-Speech 200

Text-to-Speech Compliance Training Diversity Training SharePoint 200

Tony Karrer

JULY 12, 2006

Ozzie had made his views widely known in his October 28, 2005 memo called, "Services Disruption,” where he stated the future would be dominated not by software like that made by Microsoft, but by services offered by companies like Google and salesforce.com who were changing the software game forever by delivering a new paradigm.

Web 100

Web Mash-up Mashups Business 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

One of the common reasons I hear from knowledge workers inside large organizations for not following the suggestions I provide is that the organization itself puts up barriers to working this way. There have been a couple of products in the market that provide this kind of add-on for self-paced eLearning. Of course, I do.

Predictions 200

Predictions Diversity Training SharePoint Authoring Tools 200

Tony Karrer

MARCH 19, 2009

for Professional Services for the Institute of Management Consultants. One of the participants said that they would ask questions of the person about how they are dealing with issues that relate to their services. Oh, and this provides high value to my clients who are getting the benefit of these conversations.

Social Networks 101

Social Networks LinkedIn Conversation eLearning Consultant 101

Tony Karrer

MAY 11, 2009

Downes, Theory of Learning Networks, 2004) PLE functions: aggregate remix repurpose feed forward It's interesting to see this perspective on the PLE where it is part of the Connectivism course and students are naturally motivated (or required) to share.

Informal Learning 100

Informal Learning Informal Learning Technologies PLE 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The The Long Tail which tells us moving from providing best selling products to a wider spectrum of offerings gives an opportunity for larger, potentially more lucrative market overall, if you can service it cost effectively. See eLearning Portal Integration as one example of this.

Long Tail 100

Long Tail eLearning 2.0 Portal Corporate eLearning 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Why assume that the client or someone else is supposed to provide systems for testing for courseware vendors but not say accounting systems?" Most major LMS vendors have their own test labs, support, and professional services." "All They asked: "Why is testing courseware different? Perhaps you can rent or lease the software?

SCORM 100

SCORM SumTotal Learn.com Courseware 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

He provides a list of things he can do to help informal learning in his organization. Funding for information and research services, conference attendance, guest speakers at company events, etc. Great post by Ray Sims - What To Do On Behalf of Informal Learning? Improve people findability. Make outside connections easy.

Informal Learning 100

Informal Learning Informal Big Question Tagging 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 4, 2010

This is going to first take the form of hundreds of thousands of different little applications that each provide performance support for particular tasks. We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work.

Performance Support 113

Performance Support Support Performance Cognitive 113

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I wanted to share some discussions I've recently had around an interesting project where the company provided the sales team a collaboration, content distribution and expert access portal. Their large sales team sells a diverse and complex set of products and services to multiple markets. Do you have a case study for me?

Portal 109

Portal Expert Sales Teams 109

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Provide self-starters with access to the best resources. He uses the same quote I often use from William Gibson - The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Pattern recognition is key. What do these companies have in common: Google eBay Yahoo Amazon MapQuest Craigslist Wikipedia YouTube Built on top of Linux (open source).

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Wiki Wikipedia Social Bookmarking 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

If we did nothing at all, what would the result be as compared to what we do when we provide some bad eLearning? To me eLearning definitely includes all of these other electronic means of providing support. The client then gets to check the box that they provided training. Great points Jay. It's a scary question to ask.

Corporate eLearning 112

Corporate eLearning Courseware Training Train 112

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2006

He made a really interesting point that with ready access to all sorts of new services, adoption was likely to now start with Consumers and Prosumers and then migrate into organizations. At a Web 2.0 event that I moderated, one of the speakers was Matt Glotzbach, Head of Products at Google Enterprise.

Instructional Design 100

Instructional Design Change ADDIE Enterprise 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

The point I want everyone to take away from doing the exercise in the original post is the ease with which you can pull together an application made up of services being provided by separate entities and the ease of doing this authoring of your home page through a web interface. And, none of that is the point.

Toys 100

Toys LCMS Exercise vendor 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 10, 2007

Tools provide by the enterprise that will sometimes reach outside the enterprise to give public visibility. The enterprise provides tools to employees that they can use as part of the PWLE. Yes this does provide some formality to it. I believe we are all talking about option #2. This is already done all the time.

PWLE 100

PWLE PLE Discussion Personal 100

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2010

How to Develop Robust Moderation Methodology - Community Guy , March 23, 2010 Moderation , at its core is about ensuring that published content on a particular site, typically submitted by the site’s users themselves, meets the terms of the site’s Terms of Service (ToS). wanted to provide a bit more context for this. distributed.

Conference 199

Conference Web Resources Social Networks 199

Tony Karrer

JUNE 29, 2009

As I mentioned in Blogger Outreach , I'm now getting quite a few emails that are announcements of new services, products, events, etc. Yammer thus provides a very interesting market entry model that can effectively beat out competitors who need to go through a full IT sales cycle. Why am I scratching my head? Pain Point?

Solution 100

Solution Social Networks Yammer Facebook 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 3, 2007

The reality is that all providers of content are competing in a flat world, with easy access to virtually every other information source and many different, alternative means of content creation. One of the most important questions is: What's the added value provided by content providers over alternative information sources?

Big Question 100

Big Question vendor Compliance Training Content 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 4, 2006

I had a real "aha experience" after using add-ins to provide features inside my blog. It's all pure service. I had a very interesting disagreement with a client about the technical direction for their solution - they wanted local editing via a Word add-in locally installed - I advocated providing a pure web delivered solution.

Predictions 100

Predictions Wiki CD-ROM Authoring Tools 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 4, 2007

I had a real "aha experience" after using add-ins to provide features inside my blog. It's all pure service. I had a very interesting disagreement with a client about the technical direction for their solution - they wanted local editing via a Word add-in locally installed - I advocated providing a pure web delivered solution.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Wiki eLearning 2.0 Wikipedia 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Often conference organizers forget to provide the full name of the organization and an e-mail contact address. link] December 1-3, 2010 European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS), 8 th , Ayia Napa, Cyprus. link] February 28-March 2, 2010 National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

eLearning Conferences 217

eLearning Conferences Conference Blended Learning Cyber Security Training 217

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 23, 2007

He includes: Training/Learning Manager or Director (Chief Learning Officer) Information Technology Procurement Learners Line Supervisors Business Unit Leaders Sales and Marketing Customer Service Safety/Compliance This is a great starting point.

LMS 100

LMS Teams Flash DevLearn 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

However, I've sometimes been pressed into service trying to up the automated grade only to find that my writing brings down the score. The good news these days for my kids is that there is often a rubric (set of evaluation criteria) that are used to grade their writing. Still, there's a push to better define good writing.

Scanning 113

Scanning Write Blog IM IMS 113

Tony Karrer

JULY 25, 2006

Enterprise IT on the other hand, attempts to provide significant support for processes and business rules. standards and new technologies allowing them to interoperate (SOA, Web Services, REST). The best analogy that sticks in my mind is building a new school and not paving paths between buildings. Then you pave those paths.

Emergent 100

Emergent Compliance Training Virtual Classroom System 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 14, 2009

So, the basic question is: We current provide a two day (16 hour) classroom training course for our employees. Is the person doing the conversion already familiar with the product or service being taught? I received an inquiry from a reader and I'm hoping that people can chime in on their thoughts. Will these need to be converted?

ILT 104

ILT Convert Compliance Training Brandon Hall 104

Tony Karrer

MAY 29, 2007

I can't claim that I really understand these distinctions, but I can say with certainty that systems or environments that provide support for these need to operate together. Maybe there are some distinctions between personal knowledge management, personal learning and knowledge productivity.

Knowledge Work 108

Knowledge Work Personal Learning Environment PLE 108