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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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Training Design

Tony Karrer

Back in 2005, 2006 and 2007, I would regularly show the following slides to help explain the heart of what Training Design is all about and how it has changed over the years. Ten years later, life was good because we had another delivery model available, the CD-ROM allowing us to train individuals.

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The Evolution of the “Common eLearning Man”

eLearning Brothers

Some content was converted/repurposed from textbooks to PDFs or interactive CD-Roms. The “common eLearning man” did not give up or become discouraged because of the advances in technology from 2000-2005. Education began to adopt online courses because it helped to reduce the cost of face-to-face classes.

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The teacher as storyteller

Clive on Learning

In my research, I came across a post I originally published in 2005. Back in 2003, I devoted a great deal of energy to the design of a new CD-ROM course entitled Ten Ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint. A few days ago, I sat down to write a post explaining why I thought stories were such a powerful tool for learning.

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The teacher as storyteller

Clive on Learning

In my research, I came across a post I originally published in 2005. Back in 2003, I devoted a great deal of energy to the design of a new CD-ROM course entitled Ten Ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint. A few days ago, I sat down to write a post explaining why I thought stories were such a powerful tool for learning.

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30 years of personal computing

Clive on Learning

Big fuss about multimedia, as CD-ROM becomes mainstream. 2005: First dual-core chips. Steve Jobs launches futuristic Next computer. 1989: Intel launches 486 chip, the first fast enough to run Windows. M/S ships Word for Windows. Sun launches the SparcStation. 1990: Windows 3.0 1991: Apple unveils Powerbooks and Quadras.

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It is great to have that startup feeling again

Challenge to Learn

The first edition of Easygenerator was a CD-ROM tool based on Authorware. In 2005 Easygenerator was acquired by ISM, a large Dutch e-business company. A bit of Easygenerator’s history. In fact Easygenerator is (in e-Learning terms) an ancient company. We date back to 1995.