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Terms e-Learning Designers Should Know

Mindflash

Synchronous: Synchronous learning refers to a learning environment in which everyone participates at the same time. We usually think if this as classroom training, but synchronous learning can occur on-line in a virtual classroom or web conferencing system. An LCMS has a built-in authoring tool, and LMSs do not.

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Did you know? Learning Systems Vol 3

eLearning 24-7

LCMS (Rip, albeit a few are back, like zombies). Courses – regardless if self-paced (which they have always been, hence the reason around WBT) or synchronous-based, think the syllabus or stop and wait approach that EdTech – meaning K-12 and higher education use frequently. Authoring tools. Web Conferencing solutions.

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Web-Based Authoring Tools for Scalable eLearning Development: The Time Has Come

Web Courseworks

A white paper on the Composica website titled “ The Goldilocks Dilemma of Authoring ” provides a convincing argument for why firms should invest in a collaborative authoring tool over competing individual authoring tools and learning content management system (LCMS) solutions. 2004. · xAPI. · AICC. · LMS, Inc.

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Ultimate eLearning terms you should know: Part 1 (A-L)

LearnUpon

AICC (Aviation Industry Computer-Based-Training Committee): The first official eLearning content standard, AICC was developed by the Aviation Industry CBT Committee in 1993 as a CD-ROM based standard. A predecessor to SCORM, AICC was difficult to work with and many steps were required to get content in the format running in an LMS.

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State of the E-Learning Industry 2019

eLearning 24-7

Instead of making a better SaaS authoring tool, a percentile of them, are using features you would see in an LCMS, a market that is minimal in today’s world, compared to say 2000 or even up to the mid 2000’s. . I’d argue that systems such as Blackboard who are still heavy into synchronous based learning play a factor in it.

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The Building Blocks of a Successful e-Training Program

ICS Learning

A viable solution might be on-line, live (synchronous) instructor-led training combined with an easily updateable on-line reference library of sales support material and current promotional materials. Synchronous e-Learning. Synchronous e-learning can also place extra demands on the instructor. Video can come in two forms.

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E-Learning and mLearning Content Authoring Tools | The New Paradigm

Instancy

Some of you may understand a LCMS – a Learning Content Management System. But just in case…the LCMS, especially Instancy’s iLCMS has a great authoring tool built in that will energize your training content through multimedia presentations that synchronize audio or video with animated content, interactive simulations, and mobile output.