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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Research will become a competitive advantage. Content providers will wag the long tail. While the world’s most prestigious institutions will enjoy a windfall of new students, those that rely more on age than ability will ultimately fail as the target audience realises how pedestrian they are.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Research will become a competitive advantage. Content providers will wag the long tail. While the world’s most prestigious institutions will enjoy a windfall of new students, those that rely more on age than ability will ultimately fail as the target audience realises how pedestrian they are.

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100 eLearning Articles and White Papers

Tony Karrer

Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be a More Successful E-learning Professional By Stephen Downes, National Research Council Canada 5. A third of teachers struggle to use the technology schools are equipped with and want more support and training, the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) said today.

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Mirror Neurons, Virtual training, Crowds, Misunderstanding, Long Tail, & Copyright

Big Dog, Little Dog

Long-tail economics favors the blockbuster, Harvard study finds - c/net. Remember the long tail? As new research highlighted in Harvard Business Review suggests, the answer may well be that the real money is in the blockbuster, not the long tail, after all. industrial tribunals (16 percent).

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

Organizations will need you to shift a it towards Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape. If you want to optimize total learner hours, then you make long courses aimed at lots of employees. They really became a partner with marketing. A lot like Jack.

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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

for Learning Professionals Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 Test SCORM Courses with an LMS Request for Proposal (RFP) Samples Training Method Trends Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis SCORM Test Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. Applications in Learning (24) Free - Web 2.0

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Who's Responsible for This?

Kapp Notes

So, here is the big question for this month: Do educational institutions and corporate learning & development departments have responsibility for supporting Long Tail Learning? Who determines credible research? Is all non-referred research questionable? If so, what is their responsibility?

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