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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

The Multimedia PC (MPC) came with a CD-ROM drive, meaning that the device can display video synced with audio. Alongside CD-ROMs came Microsoft Powerpoint, a modern presentation software quickly embraced by lecturers, executives, teachers and students. CD-ROMs quickly became a thing of the past.

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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

As CEO of Brandon Hall Research, I oversaw our research calendar, organized conferences, and delivered countless presentations. 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.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

You popped in a CD-Rom, which could hold up to 640mb. 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. And another day, for that story.

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What’s hip in learning in France

Jay Cross

Today I attended two learning events in Paris, in the morning the iLearning Forum hosted by Sally Ann Moore and this afternoon Expo-Langues , the conference where Peter Isackson and I will be speaking tomorrow morning. One outfit here claimed to deliver social learning experiences on CD-ROM. Buzzwords travel from the U.S.

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An eLearning revolution: From professional development to knowledge sharing

Challenge to Learn

We started in 1996 with a CD-rom version, that was followed in 2006 by a windows based edition. We supported our partners in marketing efforts, we did campaigns and had booths at major eLearning conferences all over the world. Easygenerator is one of the oldest eLearning companies, it dates back to 1996.

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Terms e-Learning Designers Should Know

Mindflash

e-Learning: e-Learning is a broad term used to describe learning that occurs through the use of electronic means, which can include web-conferencing, CD-ROM, and web-based training. It can also occur on a video conference or traditional conference call. E-Learning can be live or self-paced. As enterprise 2.0

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I'm dreaming of a White laptop.

Learning with e's

His CD-ROM drive packed in ages ago, some of his USB ports have ceased to care, and all of his appendages, his rubber feet and other accouterments have long departed. I have not dropped him since that notorious incident at a conference in 2007. You won't see him at conferences, weddings or Bar-Mitzvahs anymore.

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