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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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Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape

Tony Karrer

a long tail? to my post Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis. I'm not limiting that to the "traditional means" training topics, but I do limit that to things that are job-related, which is why I think the tail has a limit. So, even if there was a way to define my current tail, tomorrow there's more.

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Long Tail Blogging is Dying?

Tony Karrer

Just read an article in the Guardian The long tail of blogging is dying (Found via Donald Clark ). I'm sure that this will continue to change, but I would question the notion that long tail blogging is dying. Some weeks, apart from the splogs, there would be hardly anything. I didn't think we'd suddenly become dull.

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2009 Top Posts and Topics

Tony Karrer

Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool Tool Set 2009 Knowledge Work Types LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers SharePoint Using SharePoint SharePoint Examples SharePoint Fear and Loathing by Learning Professionals 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 Long Tail Long Tail Blogging is Dying?

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Are You Asking the Right Questions at Your Association?

Association eLearning

For example: • ASAE asked questions that led them to discover that their publications catalogue did not, as they had assumed, lead to “long tail” sales of older publications.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Content providers will wag the long tail. Current MOOCs are heavily geared towards school and college audiences. Over time, an increasing number of narrow, specific topics that link to corporate competencies will emerge. The corporate sector will embrace xMOOCs. Learners in the workplace are time poor.

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MICROSOFT POWERPOINT: Convert Text to Shapes Using the Fragment Tool

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Maybe, like in this example, you also want to edit one of the characters to have a longtail” to match the diagonal design element elsewhere on the slide.  Maybe you like your font but you wish the characters were a bit shorter and wider.