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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

Most of it came, via 3rd party providers, or what we referred to as “boutique shops” – think custom development (fee-based) that someone, company, government, institution, and so forth hired to create a course or courses. ISP (Internet Service Providers) fees were high. Blackboard. So, no 640 there.

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Techno rant but not really

Moodle Journal

I was at little gathering recently when I overheard a conversation between delegates from a college who had apparently made the case that engagement and achievement would be improved simply by providing students with access to the very latest technologies. A click of the mouse, and the image was joined by a classroom circa 2000.

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Online Learning Works – So Why are Schools Failing at it?

eLearning 24-7

In the late 90’s led by Blackboard, more institutions of higher education and even some schools were joining the online learning experience. For fans of PPT, you were lucky if you saw that in a DL session, most of the time it was talking, writing on a white board or blackboard (with chalk) and more talk. Globally wise?

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What is SCORM in e-learning?

eloomi

This allows for easy integration of tools into the learning management system (LMS) and other content delivery platforms such as Blackboard or Moodle. The initial version of SCORM was developed and released in 2000 by the Department of Defense-sponsored Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative.

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eLearning in Australia

eFront

I have been in the elearning and VET sector training world since 2000 when I was engaged by Southbank Institute of TAFE in their Engineering faculty. We matched it against the likes Blackboard, Moodle and Janison it wins hands down. 1. Please tell us a little about yourself and your organization. What is the direction of elearning?

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An Introduction to LTI

CourseArc

Released in 2000, SCORM required the tool or application to be saved in a static downloadable package (.zip Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is a standardized framework for enabling learning platforms (tool consumers such as Blackboard) to integrate with third-party learning applications (tool providers such as CourseArc).

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The grades are in for Education focused LMSs

eLearning 24-7

Other cool components that are part of this system, Community Content Commons – repository of learning objects, resources – created, vetted and assessed by the Epsilen community, external content providers including CSIS and PBS. Blackboard Learn. They do offer a higher education version, but this is all about K-12.