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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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Online Communication, Learning, Long Tail, & Change

Big Dog, Little Dog

Good News, Bad News about Facebook Application Market: Long Tail Rules - O'Reilly. If you are interested in Chris Anderson's the Long Tail , be sure to read the comments in the article. Social Networking Meets Corporate Learning - CLO. Find out about an important piece of engineering history.

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Learning Objectives, Performance Objectives and Business Needs

Tony Karrer

This month's Big Question - Scope of Learning Responsibility? see my posts: Learning Responsibility , Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape) has raised some interesting questions in my mind. Is this possibly the crux of the issue?

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Learning Power Laws

Tony Karrer

The The Long Tail which tells us moving from providing best selling products to a wider spectrum of offerings gives an opportunity for larger, potentially more lucrative market overall, if you can service it cost effectively. See eLearning Portal Integration as one example of this.

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Top 9 Posts You May Have Missed

Tony Karrer

6 - Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis Newspapers are failing by the day. The fat end of the long tail and the loss of attention is a critical issue that I'm not sure we are really ready to come to grips with. 7 - Second Life Learning Videos I still like these videos.

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Skimming and Learning Design

Tony Karrer

Of course, this is assuming that Learning Organizations are still in the position of being a publisher who is pushing content to learners. When we talk about the Long Tail Learning and Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis , the focus is on how to help learners when you cannot possibly get in front of all the information.

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