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Animations in eLearning: How to Make Them Work for You

eLearningMind

Animation engages the brain. When your brain experiences more than one sense at a time, it releases feel-good hormones like endorphins, oxytocin, and dopamine. Animation directs focus, introduces characters and storylines, and utilizes sound and humor—creating a multi-sensory experience for your learners.

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Is eLearning Dead? Is Instructional Design Dying with It?

Kapp Notes

” This seems to indicate that if eLearning companies (and individuals in the field) are going to weather this sustained and continuing downturn, they are going to need to pivot from a pure self-paced eLearning offering to additional offerings including mobile, virtual reality and more cognitive learning products. .”

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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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eLearning Thought Leaders: Eric Bort of Clearly Trained

eLearning Weekly

eLW: You run a successful elearning company, and we have many readers who run their own company or who might want to start one–can you share three key bits of advice for running an elearning company? I don’t know anyone whose brain is very creative at 8am after a 40 minute commute.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Forward-looking companies established corporate universities and tried to become Learning Organizations. eLearning was born. Venture capitalists funded scores of eLearning companies, most of which disappeared in the dot-com crash a few years later. In the late 1990s, the web changed everything. Corporate Learning Today.