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The 8-second attention span; or, I'm fine if goldfish are more patient than millennials

Ontuitive

In spring of 2014, Microsoft Canada released the results of a study on media consumers that claimed attention spans are shrinking. The report warned us that the average attention span has dropped from 12 to 8 seconds since about the year 2000, and is likely caused by the exponential increase in use of digital media.

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How to break bad habits with Intellezy

Intellezy

Intellezy’s content helps you break out of old habits and develop new habits, especially when it comes Microsoft Office products. If you are like me and have been using Microsoft Office since the early 2000s, you probably have picked up some bad habits along the way. How do habits and Intellezy training relate?

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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Let us take a trip back to the late 90s and 2000. Now, go back to the late 90s into the early 2000’s, with instructional designers developing WBT courses (Web-Based Training) and e-learning developers. We all remember the Java fight, between Netscape and Microsoft. If you had PowerPoint, you already were ahead of the game.

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Don't blame PowerPoint

Clive on Learning

I came across similar findings a few years ago when I was researching a course called Ten Ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint which I designed with my colleague David Kori : Severin's cue summation theory (1967), claims that learning is more effective as the number of available cues or stimuli are increased. I think not.

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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

Alongside CD-ROMs came Microsoft Powerpoint, a modern presentation software quickly embraced by lecturers, executives, teachers and students. Early 2000s: The Dot Com Boom. The World Wide Web became mainstream, thanks to investors throwing money at anything web-related between1995 and 2000.

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Exam 1: Maths part 1 of 10

ProProfs

Microsoft MCDA Practice Exam 70-229 Designing and Implementing Databases with SQL Server 2000. -->. -->. Microsoft 70-270 Practice Exam. -->. -->. Microsoft Windows XP Professional 70-270 Exam: Practice Questions Set B. -->. -->. Microsoft Certification Exam: 70-270 Practice questions - SetA. -->. Quiz analytics.

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How to Create an Online Course regardless of authoring tool or lack thereof

eLearning 24-7

If you use PowerPoint, I strongly recommend you don’t. Let’s say you are creating a course on how to use Microsoft Word. It’s been around since 2000, by the way; nothing new. ” Slides – is telling me, and clearly, you, that you use PowerPoint, and thus you know what slides mean.