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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

It’s all very well for Apple-owning, organic-buying professionals to cast aspersions, but consider the girl in Pakistan who’s too scared to set foot in a classroom. Content providers will wag the long tail. Consider the teenager in central Australia whose school has only one teacher.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

It’s all very well for Apple-owning, organic-buying professionals to cast aspersions, but consider the girl in Pakistan who’s too scared to set foot in a classroom. Content providers will wag the long tail. Consider the teenager in central Australia whose school has only one teacher.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 01/17/2007

Big Dog, Little Dog

What is especially impressive about Apple's feat is that [Apple] did it with an R&D spend that is one-tenth the size of Microsoft's annual spend, and that they did it during a period of otherwise flat industry performance. Dog or Tail. the next Long Tail or a dog ? Related links: The Long Tail and B2B.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

Predictions #2 => Convergence Ramps Up Big Time The recent Morgan Stanley Mobile Internet Report that I discussed in Mobile Internet Apple Facebook is really labeled wrong. Organizations will need you to shift a it towards Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Day 4 - Man.Im just getting warmed up! (and a shocker!)

Mark Oehlert

found via an article in the Wall Street Journal) turns out that a Harvard professor has found out that the arguments put forward by WIRED editor Chris Anderson in The Long Tail, might not be exactly spot on. " Elberse writes that "It is therefore highly disputable that much money can be made in the tail. " Geez.

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knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/25/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

The Wrong Tail: How to turn a powerful idea into a dubious theory of everything - Slate. This insight goes only so far, but like many business books, The Long Tail commits the sin of overreaching. The story behind Dean Kamen's Segway scooter, and his combustive meeting with the kingpins of Apple and Amazon.

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Listen: Discover Financial Services’ Jon Kaplan on tuition assistance programs and the importance of building trust among your learning team

CLO Magazine

As always, if you like what you hear please consider giving us a rating on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. There’s a long tail and figuring out what the business outcomes of a leader who went through a leadership development class, I mean, that’s really difficult. I encourage you to do that.

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