Tony Karrer

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2009 Predictions How Did I Do?

Tony Karrer

Social learning solutions like social homework help provided by Cramster ; CampusBug , Grockit , TutorVista , EduFire , English Cafe , and the list goes on and on. Part of this, that wasn’t well captured in my prediction, is that a lot of these solutions aim at providing Free content. Did I mention the move towards virtual classroom?)

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12 eLearning Predictions for 2009

Tony Karrer

Social learning solutions like social homework help provided by Cramster ; CampusBug , Grockit , TutorVista , EduFire , English Cafe , and the list goes on and on. Price points for virtual classroom training will begin to be virtually the same as for the same in-person classes.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Virtual classrooms and smart-boards are used in a more student-centered way (not putting all the attention to one person up-front=bad). Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails Corollary: if you have SharePoint installed, you will be using SharePoint a lot more this year. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0

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Clark Aldrich - "Second Life is not a teaching tool"

Tony Karrer

It is closer to a virtual classroom tool, or even a real-world meeting room or water cooler (without the actual water). Any content has to either bubble up from spontaneous conversations (great when they happen, but not predictable or scalable enough to provide an intellectual payoff), or be "brought in."

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Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality

Tony Karrer

Text-to-Speech Poised for Rapid Growth in eLearning Text-to-speech (TTS) is now at the point where virtual classrooms were about 4 years ago when they reached a technological maturity where they were mainstream. It took a couple more years for me to say (in 2009) that virtual classrooms reached a tipping point.

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LMS RFP

Tony Karrer

Are you talking different file formats or do you mean classroom vs. virtual classroom vs. asynchronous. The requirements will be very specific items that you are looking for: Does your LMS work with WebEx as a virtual classroom tool to? track attendance at the virtual classroom session into the LMS?

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EPSS and ePerformance

Tony Karrer

I talked about definitions of eLearning a while ago and the basic conclusion I came to is that when you say the term, while it could mean a wide variety of possible solutions - most people think of formal training delivered electronically (virtual classroom, courseware).