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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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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

If you accept that CD-ROMs and classrooms are poor substitutes for mentoring and real-time advice, social software starts to look more impressive. At Elliott Masie’s TechLearn in late 1998, I gave my first live presentation predicting the future of networked learning. Jay’s first eLearning Talk.