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Learning Power Laws

Tony Karrer

This is a common theme in my posts: Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape and Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis. This is important for things like Social Software Adoption. Overall, Dion's post is a great source for helping to think through what's really going on at a macro level with learning.

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Goodbye LMS?

Tony Karrer

I had seen this paper ( Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems ) before, but Jay Cross's take on the implications of the paper in LMS, we hardly knew ye is interesting: LMS create a walled garden in an era when walls are falling down. Further, it causes us to think in LMS terms (course).

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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

Here’s a mid-2003 article from an internal newsletter from Deloitte: Social Software: Get Affiliated. Knowledge management and corporate learning may never be the same. Social Software: Get Affiliated. Want to understand the emerging world of social software? What is social software?

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First, kill all the instructors

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

If we don’t pump more resources into learning, we’re going to be flying blind. This morning I received an email asking… How are people using social software to support learning? I think most of us agree that there is an important social dimension to learning.

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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

for Learning Professionals Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 Test SCORM Courses with an LMS Request for Proposal (RFP) Samples Training Method Trends Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis SCORM Test Web 2.0 Applications in Learning (24) Free - Web 2.0 Applications in Learning (24) Free - Web 2.0

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LMSs that kick ass: Saba

Janet Clarey

Saba’s primary market is corporate learning with just more than half of all implementations installed behind-the-firewall (largest implementation 2,000,000 learners). Saba is a major player among corporate LMSs -you can say it’s a benchmark system. The sixth LMS in the LMSs that kick ass Friday series is Saba.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

If you’re into meta-learning, you should track what’s going on there. Corporate learning and KM are both about getting the job done. Learn how it is transforming collaboration from the man who coined the term. I can’t tell where one stops and the other begins.

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