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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. I have been credited with the first use of eLearning on the web. Update : I just came upon an article on the web that talks of eLearning in 1997. The meme of learning was replacing training. You couldn't very well call this training.

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. I have been credited with the first use of eLearning on the web. 2002 Update : I just came upon an article on the web that talks of eLearning in 1997. The meme of learning was replacing training. e + learning. License.

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. I have been credited with the first use of eLearning on the web. 2002 Update : I just came upon an article on the web that talks of eLearning in 1997. The meme of learning was replacing training. e + learning. License.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

Situating our brains in our heads oversimplifies the situation; our brains are distributed throughout our bodies. If I’ve got a thorny problem to solve, I tell myself “the boys in the backroom” of my brain will work on it as I sleep, and most of the time I magically awake the next morning with an answer. And emotion?