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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. The article is definitely worth a read, and it got me to finally write about what I see as a crisis in corporate learning.

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Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape

Tony Karrer

Beth Griese - posted a response Is Learning 2.0 a long tail? to my post Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis. Beth tells us: I'm thinking of "topics" as anything that an organization's people would want to learn about for their jobs.

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Learning Responsibility

Tony Karrer

So far the posts have generally suggested a fairly broad view of responsibility for learning professionals. They express that learning professionals have some responsibility for solutions that extend beyond formal learning - whatever you choose to call this: informal learning, peer learning, bottom-up learning, non-formal learning.

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Write for Skimming

Tony Karrer

Use Bullets - Bulleted lists makes it much easier for a skimmer to get useful information. So while you may be a reader, likely a lot of the people you are writing for are skimmers. Use Headlines - Breaking up content into major sections and label those sections with headers.

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Skimming and Learning Design

Tony Karrer

Implications for Learning Design If we know that people are likely to consume information in this way, what does it mean for Learning Design. No one will sit through long detailed pieces of information. They quickly tune out or quickly skim through.

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PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning

Tony Karrer

It's the set of methods, skills, tools that I use to perform my day-to-day knowledge work activities where I acquire information, knowledge, etc. If we are going to make progress with Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis , I think we have to think about these things in an integrated fashion.

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Trends in Learning

Tony Karrer

Someone was just asking me about the big trends in learning and the implications of those trends on corporate learning and development. 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. The whole problem is Long Tail Learning.

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