Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Strategy" Fails Corollary: if you have SharePoint installed, you will be using SharePoint a lot more this year. 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.

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Predictions Diversity Training Compliance Training Authoring Tools 198

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 12, 2008

The recent addition of related terms (relationship factors) in eLearning Learning that show what how related terms are to a given result set provides some interesting insights. I already pointed to some of the Interesting Information that we could see as we compare what different bloggers write about.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2009

And I'm certainly seeing a lot of SharePoint. An example of that is the adoption of Distributed Content Editing via an agreed to technology such as Wiki, Shared SharePoint Documents, Google Docs, etc. Where tools should IT be providing and organizations be facilitating and support? technologies.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 8, 2009

While it talks in terms of SharePoint, really the patterns described relate to all different types of tools. #2 As work continually moves towards concept work demand for publishing will decrease and enabling tools, providing support and providing skills training will increase. Or at least we are right now.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 26, 2009

Corollary: if you have SharePoint installed, you will be using SharePoint a lot more this year. #3 Social learning solutions like social homework help provided by Cramster ; CampusBug , Grockit , TutorVista , EduFire , English Cafe , and the list goes on and on. At the same time, organizations who try to create big eLearning 2.0

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Predictions Virtual Classroom Wiki Corporate eLearning 125

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 31, 2009

Once you go beyond formal learning, then there's an immediate question of what else you will provide. Many organizations are using SharePoint to implement these kinds of solutions. One option is to say that limit of training / workplace Learning Responsibility is formal learning. To me, the answer is pretty clear. vs. Learning 2.0,

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Trends Blended Learning Social Networks eLearning 2.0 121

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Corollary: if you have SharePoint installed, you will be using SharePoint a lot more this year. Social learning solutions like social homework help provided by Cramster ; CampusBug , Grockit , TutorVista , EduFire , English Cafe , and the list goes on and on. At the same time, organizations who try to create big eLearning 2.0

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Predictions Virtual Classroom Wiki eLearning 2.0 183

Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2008

Provide the content. Provide thoughts around the content and the discussion. Selling the Value Often it can be tricky to convince management of the value of providing these tools. Resources The following are resources that I provided as links in my presentation. I've embedded all the content from the slides.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 29, 2009

Or maybe it's a product that lives on top of SharePoint. 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. For example, if you build something that integrates with Facebook, Twitter, etc. Or integrates with all the major LMS products.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 23, 2009

And this suggests that there is big value in providing knowledge workers with ways to assess a situation, to find the cues which link to possible approaches and actions. I often use less formal patterns and you can see examples of patterns in Using SharePoint or at the WikiPatterns site. This really rings true to me.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2009

While it talks in terms of SharePoint, really the patterns described relate to all different types of tools. I wanted to provide a more in-depth post that shows how you can create your own learning portal using the freely available content management system, WordPress. eLearning is fun, great, innovative, wonderful….

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Diversity Training Authoring Tools Portal Screencast 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

And while Harbinger has provided some interesting tools that are essentially mash-ups for authoring, not sure I've seen much adoption. Unfortunately, these will be even worse than Sharepoint, the solution you already hate. I'm not sure I buy what some of the other LMS vendors are providing around social software.

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Long Tail eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2010

Instead of looking at providing tightly coupled Social Learning Tools, they should instead be looking at how their offering can integrate or leverage Enterprise 2.0 This could be: SharePoint, Yammer, Confluence, etc. If an organization has SharePoint and InGenius, my preference would be that social interaction occurs in SharePoint.

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Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise Social Learning Social 104

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 19, 2009

There is internal debate about putting this in the LMS vs. having it reside on the intranet (SharePoint in this case). Additional information from my blog and other bloggers on Learning Management Systems ( LMS ) can be found by clicking the above links as provided by the eLearning Learning community.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Many LMS vendors provide portlets, gadgets or widgets that allow for access of learning content (most often meaning courses and courseware) through the corporate portal. My gut says these tools are going to be separate from the LMS, e.g., SharePoint. Many LMS vendors provide this capability.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

link] March 11-13, 2013 EDUCAUSE Northeast Regional Computing (NERCOMP) Annual Conference: Improvising the Future, online and Providence, Rhode Island, USA. link] or [link] May 25-27, 2012 International Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Research Conference, 15 th , Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan.

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eLearning Conferences Conference Blended Learning Diversity Training 238

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Providence, Rhode Island, USA. link] May 25-27, 2012 International Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Research Conference, 15 th , Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan. link] July 28, 2012 SharePoint Saturday , New York City, New York, USA. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas, USA.

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eLearning Conferences Conference Blended Learning Diversity Training 261