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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

Learning Visions

I was a victim of the e-Learning Hype Cycle of 2000/2001. The CD ROM based training company I worked at did not successfully make the leap to the Internet. I would like to ask: Why should an e-learning system have chat, groups, calendars and forums when there are Yahoo meesengers, eGroups, etc. found in the net? Lots of thanks!

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Infographic: How Google has changed what it means to do research

eFront

With almost 30 percent of the human population, or 2 billion people, using the internet; and 94 percent of US students equating research with using Google or other search engines, it comes as no surprise that 75 percent of students use Wikipedia and online encyclopedias for research. 1995: Internet Explorer launched.

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Infographic: How Google has changed what it means to do research

eFront

With almost 30 percent of the human population, or 2 billion people, using the internet; and 94 percent of US students equating research with using Google or other search engines, it comes as no surprise that 75 percent of students use Wikipedia and online encyclopedias for research. 1995: Internet Explorer launched.

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