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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

Heck, I was in a doctorate program, whereas the majority of the ‘courses’ was via Lotus Notes, the other was ILT. In 2000, I built my own LMS for a company, and was hired to create an e-learning program for customer training, as well as run a training division with ILT still in play (blended). NetG ruined them).

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

Who remembers NetG? NetG, was the evil empire of the days gone past – ok, in my mind. speed with no latency issues would be acquired by NetG and shoved into the Raiders of the Ark storage facility, next to the ark itself. Back in the day, there were some big names out there. Real interactive stuff. But Office ruled. .

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A Conversation with Bryan Austin of mLevel

Kapp Notes

Bryan has had a distinguished career in corporate Learning & Development, including leadership roles with Skillsoft, Kaplan, AchieveGlobal and NETg. Austin: Corporate learning functions are often stretched too thin by the business’ increasing demand for learning programs coupled with the increasing pace of change. mLevel Studio.

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The Growing Role of Microlearning

CLO Magazine

How can we blend all the content we have into meaningful programs that stick? Degreed released a study, “How the Workforce Learns in 2016,” that showed among 500-plus respondents, people rate their training department with a minus 31 percent net promoter score; that’s not good.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Training technology focused on the person, not the group: PLATO introduced computer-based training; Stanford pioneered instructional television; teaching machines and programmed instruction enjoyed brief popularity. Venture capitalists funded scores of eLearning companies, most of which disappeared in the dot-com crash a few years later.