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December's BIG QUESTION!!! Part I

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

" A consortium of corporate training folks from Wal-Mart Stores, American Express, Intel, and more than 200 other companies, organized by learning and technology think tank The MASIE Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Perhaps the Google and Yahoo shopping sprees, and of course the Blackboard thingy , make the cut in my book.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): EduPunk? Please tell me this is the start and not the end

Mark Oehlert

I know that I hate BlackBeard , er BlackHeart , oops BlackHole , I mean blackboards rapacious, avaricious, naked and chilling attempt to abuse both the patent and legal systems. I think that Id classify myself as Punk - at least according to the principles that Ive seen (do I need some sort of pedagogical piercings or intellectual ink?)

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What is Online Learning? Brief History, Benefits & Limitations

learnWorlds

1997 Launch of Blackboard, a pioneer in online course management systems. 1999 The term “e-learning” was used for the time in a professional context by Elliott Masie at the TechLearn conference at Disney World. 1970s Introduction of PLATO system for computer-assisted instruction.