Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Adler's recent article - Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 talks about the implications of the Long Tail on Education. Background If you are not familiar with the concept of the Long Tail, head over to take a look at the Long Tail article on Wikipedia.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My blog is really the hub of my thinking and activity, so by going back through posts for the 2008, it gives me a pretty good perspective on what's been happening inside my head during 2008. To do my review, I first looked at what I was writing about and what people were reading on my blog in 2008.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

It puts forward lots of suggestions for how knowledge workers can leverage technology to make themselves more effective. I actually think this is some of the most valuable stuff on my blog, and I believe that most knowledge workers are not really taking advantage of this at the level they should.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Instead, I've found that it's much more effective to look at individual opportunities and figure out what makes sense. You need to be able to spot new kinds of opportunities that you might not have been involved in before (see Long Tail Learning ). That said, there is almost always some technology (Wiki, blog, RSS, etc.)

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Tony Karrer

MAY 13, 2009

In prior posts she identifies the following elements as being needed for informal learning strategy to be effective in the workplace: Motivation for learning. As I've said many times, for concept workers work and learning are inseparable. This is why most learning is long tail learning. But it shouldn't just be me.

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