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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

Big publishers are having problems as the cost of distribution goes towards zero and as that brings along a ton of competition from the low end. But all major publications have limitations in that because of the cost, they have to go after large audiences and they need to stay at higher level topics. Total cost: zero.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

Text-to-Speech Examples Text-to-Speech Costs – Licensing and Pricing But what I learned from this was that it was a fantastic way to learn about a topic where I was interested but didn’t have the time to spend researching it. It provided high value for me and hopefully value for people reading it. Instead, Joel would write it up.

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Reading the tea Leaves in my tabs: Our ecosystem is Commodified

Mark Oehlert

commodify ; specifically : to render (a good or service) widely available and interchangeable with one provided by another company. Open Sesame provides a commodity marketplace for training courses. . The latest group of tabs to catch my eye include the following: Training Sites. Lynda.com : . CodeAcademy : . Udacity : .

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

One of the common reasons I hear from knowledge workers inside large organizations for not following the suggestions I provide is that the organization itself puts up barriers to working this way. Essentially telling the CEO – we’ll produce more and better quality – but it’s not going to cost any more.