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Networked noughties 2000-2002

Learning with e's

In this short series of blogposts, I want to look back over the years 2000-2009, to map the key moments when the digital decade changed our lives. July 2000 saw the launch of one of the first social networking sites: Friends Reunited. we began to see signs of what the future would hold. We didn't need to wait too long.

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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

A major breakthrough took place in 1984 when Apple''s Macintosh computer was introduced. Early 2000s: The Dot Com Boom. The World Wide Web became mainstream, thanks to investors throwing money at anything web-related between1995 and 2000. The early prototypes were, of course, crude versions of our current personal computers.

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Watch Out For These Trends in Mobile Learning: 2015 And Beyond

Origin Learning

Global mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014 and was nearly 30 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. Portable, rechargeable speakers and mobile devices such as Apple iPod Nano andiPod Touch were given to 475 primary teachers in the pilot phase.

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Is your company ready for the iGeneration?

Matrix

The lines between generations are always blurry, but one could say that people born after 2000 (today’s babies, toddlers, and teenagers) belong to the iGeneration. They grew up and are growing up surrounded by iPods, iPhones, iPads, and all the iProducts the tech giant heavily markets all over the world.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 10/21/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Straight Dope on the IPod's Birth - Wired. In 2000, Steve Jobs' candy-colored iMac was leading the charge for Apple's comeback, but to further spur sales, the company started asking, "What can we do to make more people buy Macintoshes?".

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Memory, Reconsolidation and Big Questions.

Mark Oehlert

Then, in 2000, a researcher in my lab, Karim Nader, did an experiment that convinced me, and many others, that our usual way of thinking was wrong. Apple/iPhone/iPod Application Becomes the Platform Arrghh!!! stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0