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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

Apart from a two-year stint selling tropical fish at a local pet shop when I was 16, my entire career has been in learning technology. Locally-Installed Software About a decade ago, many organizations shunned cloud-based software and demanded that the LMS be installed on their internal servers. Installed software was hot.

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Cloud Based Collaboration: Advancing Educational Publishing

Kitaboo

It is built on a model akin to cloud computing, where all apps are accessed remotely rather than locally on your computer or device, either from the cloud or from another remote server. Online or offline digital copies of the library’s catalog may be contained on CD-ROMs or USB keys.

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What is elearning?

Elucidat

These factors include: The rise of the internet – previous to this, many relied on the use of printed manuals, CD-ROMS, and other restrictive methods for learning and training. This has been seen through the movement from locally installed to cloud-based systems. SCORM stands for Shareable Content Object Reference Model.

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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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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

Learning Visions

1980s CD ROMS. Technology Innovation Cycles: Some books about technology innovation if you want more on this -- James Utterback, Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation Clayton Christensen, The Innovators Dilemma (If youre doing well now, be careful because a new tech is being developed to disrupt your business.)

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

Before industrialization, work was local or industry meant cottage-industry. Thousands upon thousands of trainers attended conferences to learn about new approaches like programmed instruction, behavior modification, roleplay, certification, CD-ROM, sensitivity training. People had vocations, not jobs.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Memoirs of an "Instructional Designer"

Learning Visions

My current business card says Im a "Manager of Instructional Design". After a few years, I got involved in an IT initiative (then it was called MIS) -- designing a new software application to support our call center business. We produced loads of CBTs -- delivered on CD ROM. I have never taken a class in pedagogy.