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How Technology Benefits Your Personalized English Course

Speexx

But a few decades ago, language students had to rely on textbooks and CD-ROMs for their language education. But now, technology has advanced to the point where we can create personalized English courses tailored to each learner's specific needs. It's hard to believe that was considered cutting-edge technology at the time.

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Expectations From eLearning Authoring Tools

Upside Learning

Should be easy to control and manage graphic styles across course to enforce style guidelines and branding. Should be able to publish course in various formats. web, LMS, CD-ROM). Functionality of some kind for offline tracking if courses are not being delivered from any LMS. Standard and customizable compliance.

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eLearning Glossary: Definitions for the Most Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

For many, their first experience with eLearning was educational computer games delivered via CD Rom. Andragogy- Periodically you’ll see this word in blogs on course creation from instructional designers debating the best practices for teaching content and encouraging retention. Courses in an LMS usually fall into this category.

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

Academy of Mine

Both SCORM and xAPI are content standards used to create eLearning courses. These eLearning protocols are important so that courses are interoperable between LMSs and organizations can track learning-related activity. SCORM was originally created in 1999 to solve the problem of courses not being interoperable.

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The case for model answers (and a rubric)

Clark Quinn

As context, many moons ago we developed a course on speaking to the media. They had been running a face to face course, and rather than write a book, they wondered if something else could be done. They had been running a face to face course, and rather than write a book, they wondered if something else could be done.

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5 Key Trends in the Future of eLearning

SmartUp

The concept of elearning dates all the way back to the 90s, where the trend started emerging with the usage of interactive CD-ROMS and PDF files. Test results, course completion rates, engagement rates and time spent on learning are just some of the other metrics you can monitor to enhance training. Social Learning .

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ELearning Explained [INFOGRAPHIC]

LearnDash

New tools and mobile learning technologies are opening up the possibilities for both course development and delivery. I find some of the items listed in the infographic to be a bit archaic, such as the mention of CD-ROM, but I do suppose they are still in use. That said, the elearning industry is in constant motion.

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