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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. Background If you are not familiar with the concept of the Long Tail, head over to take a look at the Long Tail article on Wikipedia.

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Learning Power Laws

Tony Karrer

Several of them I regularly talk about: Amara’s Law ( backstory ) states that " we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. " – I cite this in Work Skills Keeping Up? But over time it often has pretty incredible effects that sneak up on us.

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Case study: How one learning approach at Warner Bros. Discovery delivered career value during a major transformation

CLO Magazine

Team approach With a new L&D team forming, we focused on building relationships within the team to effectively deliver a solution that would resonate with employees. This learning initiative was an opportunity to break out of the norm and expand our knowledge of each other by utilizing everyone’s skills, strengths and interests.

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Skimming and Learning Design

Tony Karrer

This also means that a key skill is develop better memory methods that help us individually deal with the fact that we are skimming more stuff and will have an ever increasing need to quickly get back to it. And likely the answer is that it also depends on the topic, length of the item, the timing, and way too many other variables.

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Metalearning

Tony Karrer

Within this context, metalearning depends on the learner’s conceptions of learning, epistemological beliefs, learning processes and academic skills, summarized here as a learning approach. Jay's article is really using metalearning in a different way – take responsibility for learning across the organization.

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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 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. Applications in Learning (24) Free - Web 2.0

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Trends in Learning

Tony Karrer

In Long Live , I discuss how we are not talking about eliminating instructor-led, but that organizations are looking at alternatives. The whole problem is Long Tail Learning. I know from Data Driven performance improvement solutions that often informal learning can be very effective in driving results.

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