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My life…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 regularly use Facebook and Twitter and now Google +. What’s your story?

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A Brief Historical Look at Corporate Training

Litmos

While PLATO and The Oregon Trail had planted the seed of computer based training, these new personal computers were the start of the digital revolution that would soon impact homes, schools, and businesses around the world. Companies providing CD-ROM training content boomed, as production no longer required programmers to create it.

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Subscription Learning & Tools: 30 minute guide

eLearningArt

Dollar Shave Club launched a subscription razor business and was acquired 4 year later for over $1 billion!!! Even eLearningArt (my business) transition to subscription images about 5 years ago. You get immediate access (no mailing CD-rom + install). Follow Dave on Twitter: @LnDDave. Subscription LMS?…

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Accidents Do Happen

The Learning Circuits

Because I knew the business and had helped design our software package, and because I was pretty good in front of a crowd, I ended up doing the training. One thing led to another and a couple of years later, I got hired at a small multi-media production company that developed corporate training programs delivered on CD ROMs.

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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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E-Learning Jargon: What you might think it is.well…

eLearning 24-7

CD-ROM and in some cases, DVD built courses. . Oh, there is also API (Application Program Interface) and Mashups (two more APIs – great example – Google Maps whereas they show restaurants, businesses, etc.). The number of folks who were going e-learning back in 1993, was really minimal – I mean Mosaic 2.1

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A Look Back at E-Learning in 2012

eLearning 24-7

CertPoint VLS Portals – but only to a laptop or CD Rom – so not a mobile device. Avatars, Image characters, backgrounds that are business or work oriented. Standards are Facebook and Twitter. AJ Square – but it is a separate module you have to purchase. eLogic Learning. Expertus One. exact learning.

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