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The primary insight in the Long Tail is that by moving the inventory way in or way out, Long Tail businesses achieve a whole new economics. By aggregating book inventory into key warehouses with technology for fulfilling orders quickly, Amazon.com transformed retail. They can offer more book titles than any book store, satisfying all reading needs from the most mass market to the most obscure.
With schools, aggregation really matters. Read more »
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CoSN 2008-2009 Webcast
Speaker: Karen Greenwood Henke
In 2006, Chris Anderson defined a transformation in business with his book The Long Tail. Individualized learning, user-generated content, social networking, online gaming and virtual schools are indicators that the Long Tail is coming to education. Students have already discovered how to teach each other in social networks and multi-player gaming. Technology is transforming the learning institution. It will help us increase the wisdom of the crowds and scale personalized learning to meet the needs of the millions of students in the niches.
The web cast is FREE for CoSN members and $59 for non-members. Download Registration Form.
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Hollywood, CA
Attending
The Digital Education Leadership Conversation is the nation’s only education event that unites chief information officers, chief technology officers, state and municipal education executives and senior IT industry executives from around the country. Free of charge to public-sector leaders, the symposium is a valuable opportunity for education innovators to meet face-to-face to exchange new ideas, discuss, disseminate and share best practices and working programs, and network and collaborate on matters of mutual concern. We have a celebrity line-up for this December’s Digital Education Leadership Conversation. For eight years, we have been convening education enthusiasts to discuss and explore new ways of thinking about our schools. It’ll be a star-studded event that you cannot miss.
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In November, I presented Long Tail Learners to a small group of thought leaders assembled by Intel at edIT. We had an animated discussion about my Long Tail Learner Rules:
- Aggregation really matters.
- Niches are communities and technology brings people together.
- Feedback is essential.
- The data has the answers: let the data free.
The most discussion came from number 3: Feedback is Essential. Read more »
