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Micro to Macro

eLearning Weekly

I now see greater value in relationships and networking both inside and outside of our company. eLearning course development. eLearning vendor management. eLearning 2.0 / social learning / general learning solution design and development. Web site development / web application development.

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2009 Predictions How Did I Do?

Tony Karrer

1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases Due to economic pressures, companies are going to reduce training budgets to a point where it doesn't make sense to create content on marginal topics. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails One of the better, cheap support mechanisms for self-directed learning are web 2.0

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12 eLearning Predictions for 2009

Tony Karrer

. #1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases Due to economic pressures, companies are going to reduce training budgets to a point where it doesn't make sense to create content on marginal topics. 2 - eLearning 2.0 Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 2 - eLearning 2.0 Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Interestingly, it's Xyleme - an LCMS vendor that is sponsoring the site. Strategy" Fails Corollary: if you have SharePoint installed, you will be using SharePoint a lot more this year. I call it working smarter.

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Business of Learning

Tony Karrer

Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago. Anecdotally times are incredibly tough right now for training vendors. Instead, it appears that the stock market considers these companies to be okay bets.

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The Business Web

Tony Karrer

This is something I've pointed to before: Promise of Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 - Comparison to Macros, IDEs, and Visual Basic. Simultaneously, companies like Google and Yahoo have announced their intention to compete against Microsoft Exchange by offering a version of their consumer email services repurposed for business.

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Firewalls and Security in Software as a Service

Tony Karrer

Do not believe any vendor claim that "it works through firewalls" because a firewall can be configured to stop anything it wants. In the case of hosted solutions, the added "risk" is that the administrators are employees of an outside company. and international regulations to which that company is subject. That's its job.

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