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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

To understand the history of the LMS, there are five items that drove it. We did Online Learning in the 60’s – False Narrative There were systems back in the day, where they could be run on your own server, used via a CD-ROM, via WAN or LAN, but to me, that isn’t and e-learning LMS. CBT (Computer-Based Training).

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Why can’t you say YES, when you want to buy a learning system?

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Remember Lotus 1-2-3? For those of us, who experienced the late 80s when Floppy Discs ruled, and then used Lotus in the 90’s, the memory of such a solution, is easily forgotten (although I did take an online course using only Lotus Notes, in 1998). I would love to know who is still using Lotus Notes 6.5.

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LMS Administrator Hiring – What you need to know to find the right 1

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The point of it all (there isn’t one, but roll with it) is that finding the right person for the right role isn’t as easy as you might think. Take the LMS, learning system administrator role. I often hear from readers who tell me how difficult it is to find such a person, i.e. the right person for the role.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

I discussed the fact that there was a common Adoption Pattern that went from personal adoption to work groups to organization. – Personal => – Work group => – Organization I also discussed that often these things evolve into solutions. Many people in academia felt that students were the obvious target audience.

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Asynch, Synch.And the Winner is?

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While this person can continue to add things (files, etc.) – the chunk is placed in there – and trust me, it is not a quick thing to do – it takes considerable time. After the person posts, everybody has to read the post and post a follow up comment (and typically it cannot just be, “yeah, I agree&# ).