Centralized administration, distributed learning? [www.elearnspace.org]

George Siemens links to Co-opting the creative revolution over at the BBC web site. He makes a great observation that most LMSs don't do a good job of seperating the centralized administration model with a distributed learning model. He says "Certain aspects of learning should be centralized (particularly enrolment), and others should be decentralized (interaction, content exploration, learner-created content (blogs, wikis), etc.)" One partial solution that .LRN could provide is the dotFolio concept where a learner receives a personal space to organize and share their learning experiences alongside the .LRN system.

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03:20 PM, 18 Jul 2005 by Dave Bauer Permalink | Comments (0)

The Long Tail of organizations that need online Learning Management

In Solution Grove’s internal discussions of our sales and marketing strategy a number of people have brought up references to “The Long Tail”


Long Tail of Software

A General Article on Long Tails

I recommend these as reading for everyone involved in .LRN marketing. I think .LRN’s broad functionality and modular design positions it to have fantastic potential to serve the “long tail” of organizations that need some sort of Learning Management system but do not fit into the “box” assumed by the large proprietary vendors.

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01:17 PM, 06 Jul 2005 by Caroline Meeks Permalink | Comments (0)

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