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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. 2002 Update : I just came upon an article on the web that talks of eLearning in 1997. Before the web, we had EDI (electronic data interchange) and EFT (electronic funds transfer). The meme of learning was replacing training. 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. 2002 Update : I just came upon an article on the web that talks of eLearning in 1997. Before the web, we had EDI (electronic data interchange) and EFT (electronic funds transfer). The meme of learning was replacing training. License.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

In the information age, innovation is the competitive advantage. As the MIT Media Lab’s Nicholas Negroponte said, “Incrementalism is the greatest enemy of innovation.”. Or you may find that you’ve blown millions on dead-end technologies and projects that do not achieve their potential. Learning is the business. Do a better job.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

I tell them they need to go beyond dumb technology. Innovating in the face of change. Yet dot-com mania’s article of faith was that the technologies of the Internet essentially made human beings irrelevant. The rapid pace of technological innovation and economic change almost guarantees that formal learning will be dated.