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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. Over time, content providers will supplement their core offerings with live webinars, interactive exercises, discussion forums, wikis, social networks etc. Content providers will wag the long tail. The former is the subject of such disdain.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. Over time, content providers will supplement their core offerings with live webinars, interactive exercises, discussion forums, wikis, social networks etc. Content providers will wag the long tail. The former is the subject of such disdain.

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Social media: Prevention is better than cure

E-Learning Provocateur

It’s also the long tail of boring, low profile gripes that fester unanswered. Go a step further and create an alternative channel in which your customers can voice a complaint. If, however, it does happen, then respond to it in the very same forum. But it’s not just the clever memes you should worry about.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

Yet, there will be lots of eLearning solutions aiming at these alternative platforms. Organizations will need you to shift a it towards Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape. The other part of this is that your total output is going to be expected to increase.

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Business of Learning

Tony Karrer

Xerox Learning, DDI, Forum Corporation, and hundreds of other “instructional systems companies” sprung up. The writing has been on the wall (or in blogs) for quite a while: Jay Cross and Harold Jarche in The Future of the Training Department The second half of the 20th Century was arguably the Golden Age of Training.

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