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My lifeā€¦in elearning

Learning Visions

15 years ago I got a job as an instructional designer/multimedia producer at a company that created training programs delivered on CD ROMS. We flirted with creating early knowledge management systems and went out of business the next year. I had never sent an email; I had never made a call on a mobile phone.

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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

As an added benefit, new features regularly and magically appear in the LMS without the need for Jim in IT to load CD-ROMs onto a server every couple of months. Installed software was hot. Now itā€™s viewed as passĆ©.

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A Tale of Two Cases: Mobile Solutions with Phillip Neal #ASTDTK14

Learning Visions

These are my live blogged notes from a session on the final day of ASTD Tech Knowledge with Phillip Neal, VP of Business Need at Maestro. Itā€™s like in the olden days of elearning when we all moved from CD ROMS to the Internet. Did some consulting and came up with a different solution to solve the business problem.

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SaaS LMS vs Self-Hosted LMS: Why SaaS for eLearning is Best

Academy of Mine

It seems like just yesterday laptops were still being made with cd rom drives, and flash drives were still the go-to solution for moving data from one device to the next. In the past, if you were training employees or other businesses and partners, then your options were pretty limited when it came to which platform to use.

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Encouraging Rookie Smarts

Web Courseworks

A few weeks ago, I attended ISAā€™s 2015 Annual Business Retreat, a summit for executives in the training industry. Wiseman started her talk by acknowledging that the modern business landscape is constantly evolving, and moved on to discuss how leaders can get the most out of their teams by embracing fresh ideas.

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Why canā€™t you say YES, when you want to buy a learning system?

eLearning 24-7

was ever offered in a CD-ROM. Since the newest computers, okay, for the last several years, lack a CD-ROM (you would have to purchase it as separate hardware with a USB connection – oh joy), there must be someone out there because you can download 6.5. This is business. I searched to see if Lotus Notes 6.5

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Benefits of a Digital Library for Associations and Non-Profit Organizations

Kitaboo

This has brought about a sea of change in the process of collection development, their organization, and accessibility, and organizations are increasingly trying to capitalize on this development for business purposes. Storage Devices: CD-ROMs, optical storage devices, etc. Network: The internet, WAN, LAN, MAN, etc.

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