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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

In the Business of Learning , I compared publishing and learning. Free learning can come from groups like Work Literacy that provided a large online learning experience for free, or from LearnTrends that produces amazing content like LearnTrends 2009 for free. OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning. eLearning Technology.

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Reading the tea Leaves in my tabs: Our ecosystem is Commodified

Mark Oehlert

commodify ; specifically : to render (a good or service) widely available and interchangeable with one provided by another company. Open Sesame provides a commodity marketplace for training courses. . Where does that leave you vendors with traditional (and by that I mean old) business models? Lynda.com : . CodeAcademy : .

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

One of the common reasons I hear from knowledge workers inside large organizations for not following the suggestions I provide is that the organization itself puts up barriers to working this way. Business’s lingering love of bureaucracy, process, and legacy technology has fallen completely out of sync with what people need to do their best.