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Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis

Tony Karrer

This is happening in many situations: major publishers (CNN, Yahoo, Cnet) competing with niches publishers, competing with blogs; TV production facing a widely distributed audience across 500 cable channels and YouTube. If you think about the Long Tail graph, it works just as well when we substitute Attention instead of Sales.

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LearnTrends: The Immernet Singularity

Experiencing eLearning

Good attention getter–started by showing a rectangle on a dark screen & asked people what it was. Knowledge Sharing Spaces (SharePoint, Blackboard, Yahoo Groups). Q: Data mining, federated search. A: “People don’t want to search; they want to find.&# Without context, we don’t really know.

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Mobile Learning: A Designer’s Guide to Fighting Learner Distraction

SHIFT eLearning

The average mobile user also has a short attention span — most people skim headlines and prefer bite-size content to long articles. In order to be successful, developers must create mobile learning courses that gains and sustains the attention of a user and can compete against distractions. A research conducted by Yahoo!

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Mobile Usage Habits of Today’s Corporate Learner

SHIFT eLearning

With it, they search the web for information, scour data online to learn, and keep themselves entertained. This clearly requires eLearning professionals and companies to focus on what learners need in order for them to pay attention. iPad users have the longest attention span that averages at 5 minutes.

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The Tale of a Job Hunt

Allison Rossett

Here is the story of her search for a new position. Even more time was spent searching for the ideal job openings and filling out the specialized online applications. Questions this time focused on me, and my project experience, but there was little attention to my “out of work” activities (ISPI, etc.). and Experian.

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How to build an SEO-friendly training portal

TalentLMS

SEO or search engine optimization. And two of the most effective methods of doing this are Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising. Using PPC, you can pay a search engine to display an ad at the top and bottom of its search results pages. Organic search. Or, yelling really loudly.

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Content is a tyrant.

Learning with e's

In 1996, most pre-Google online searching was done using Yahoo! (a Increasingly, in today's digital age, many of us are following Clark’s perspective, focusing on content, without paying much attention to the tools we use to make sense of it. In essence, Kozma and McLuhan both believed that context (i.e.