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Monkeys typing?

From the Coleface

But in the world of learning, is this all about loss of powerbases or is it a genuine worry about quality? The production technology for e-learning is getting cheaper and more widely distributed. James Surowiecki’s book “The Wisdom of crowds” has been widely (mis)quoted as the harbinger of doom for experts everywher.

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2009 Predictions How Did I Do?

Tony Karrer

Certainly there’s tons of buzz around lots of consumer social learning solutions. Here are just a few of the many web 2.0 / social learning companies being discussed in 2009: Consumer, K-12 and higher ed are all relatively hot investment spaces. They will they proceed to wonder why you aren't doing something similar.