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Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis

Tony Karrer

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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Learning Power Laws

Tony Karrer

Several of them I regularly talk about: Amara’s Law ( backstory ) states that " we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. and Adoption of Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 See eLearning Portal Integration as one example of this.

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Top 9 Posts You May Have Missed

Tony Karrer

A long, lost blog post that needs to be revisited. How I find blog topics #3 Data Driven I firmly believe and have seen how this approach to performance improvement really does move the needle. 4 - Examples of eLearning 2.0 6 - Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis Newspapers are failing by the day.

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Death of Magazines - Broader Deeper Coverage

Tony Karrer

I have a similar feeling about the limited value of these publications for me and it's something that I mention at most presentations I ever do on eLearning 2.0. In other words, my scanning behavior has radically changed because of blogs (see Time Spent on Blogging , Personal Learning Strategies ).

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Trends in Learning

Tony Karrer

I initially said - "Look at my blog," but when I looked, I realized it might be a bit harder than I thought to pull out the central themes. So, here's a bit of a compilation of some of the things I've been talking about in my blog which points to some of the major trends in learning. And surveys such as Web 2.0

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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

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. eLearning 2.0

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Skimming and Learning Design

Tony Karrer

One of the common themes on my blog is the world we live in with availability of trillions of web pages, millions of people, and thousands of tools, has meant a significant and continuous change in our work literacy. After all, this is pretty much the question I'm often asking: What does Learning Design look like in a world of eLearning 2.0

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