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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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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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Write for Skimming

Tony Karrer

So while you may be a reader, likely a lot of the people you are writing for are skimmers.

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Learning Objectives, Performance Objectives and Business Needs

Tony Karrer

see my posts: Learning Responsibility , Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape) has raised some interesting questions in my mind. This month's Big Question - Scope of Learning Responsibility? Is this possibly the crux of the issue?

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Learning Responsibility

Tony Karrer

I wanted to capture some thoughts as I've been reading these posts so far.

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