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SCORM Vs. xAPI (Tin Can): eLearning Content Standards

Academy of Mine

However, unless you’re still training using CD-ROMs, this content standard is now irrelevant Let the face-off between two content standards begin… SCORM Vs. xAPI SCORM is the most common protocol for eLearning, but it’s not the most advanced. The result: not many eLearning software providers adopted the protocol.

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What's Better: eLearning or Classroom?

The Performance Improvement Blog

The Obama administration has been touting the educational value of online courses since coming into office over three years ago, and many colleges, especially community colleges, have adopted that mantra. Putting a course on the Web or on a CD-ROM does not ensure performance improvement.(

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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

The Multimedia PC (MPC) came with a CD-ROM drive, meaning that the device can display video synced with audio. Alongside CD-ROMs came Microsoft Powerpoint, a modern presentation software quickly embraced by lecturers, executives, teachers and students. CD-ROMs quickly became a thing of the past.

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A Tale of Two Cases: Mobile Solutions with Phillip Neal #ASTDTK14

Learning Visions

It’s like in the olden days of elearning when we all moved from CD ROMS to the Internet. One of the struggles with mobile is that organizations are used to designing the way they always have and that fits within their existing models of what training is. Mobile is different. Today, people are making a lot of mistakes.

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Benefits of a Digital Library for Associations and Non-Profit Organizations

Kitaboo

We are slowly moving away from the traditional method of organizing, retrieving, and preserving documents in print to the adoption of ICT. Storage Devices: CD-ROMs, optical storage devices, etc. This has caused a paradigm shift with regard to the concept of information centers. Network: The internet, WAN, LAN, MAN, etc.

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eLearning Defined

Tony Karrer

), so I decided to look at the different definitions of eLearning in the various glossaries: eLearning / E-Learning - learning that is accomplished over the Internet, a computer network, via CD-ROM, interactive TV, or satellite broadcast. Typically used to describe media such as CD-ROM, Internet, Intranet, wireless and mobile learning.

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Encouraging Rookie Smarts

Web Courseworks

Each mode has a particular mindset, and Wiseman contends that more experienced professionals can adopt these mindsets to stay competitive and continuously perform at the outer edge of their ability. I remember spending hours at the bookstore learning how to create CD-ROMs; now most professional learning is done on the Internet.

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