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eLearning Glossary: Definitions for the Most Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

For many, their first experience with eLearning was educational computer games delivered via CD Rom. If a customer service agent has had to sit through dry lecture videos that were filmed ten years ago, which are now online, that may be their image of eLearning.”

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5 Key Trends in the Future of eLearning

SmartUp

The concept of elearning dates all the way back to the 90s, where the trend started emerging with the usage of interactive CD-ROMS and PDF files. Bosch Automotive , for example, uses AR to assist service technicians and consumers to repair cars. Few early examples of LMS were FirstClass and Moodle. . Conclusion .

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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

Now, even the most security-conscious organizations such as governments and financial institutions embrace software as a service (SaaS). 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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The Role of xAPI in Creating Powerful Learning Experiences for the Modern Workforce

Origin Learning

Designed specifically to cater to eLearning courseware designed for use in the aviation industry, the standards were adopted by course-providers to create eLearning content for all industries. The earlier version of these standards was designed for course content delivered via CD-ROMs. Creating Better Blended Learning.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

You popped in a CD-Rom, which could hold up to 640mb. Most of it came, via 3rd party providers, or what we referred to as “boutique shops” – think custom development (fee-based) that someone, company, government, institution, and so forth hired to create a course or courses. And another day, for that story.

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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. SaaS stands for Service as a software and a SaaS LMS is a cloud-based system. What is a SaaS LMS?

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

Kitaboo

Fortunately, this attitude of nonprofits is slowly taking a turn for the better, and many have started espousing the idea of creating a digital archive of their current data. Creating a digital library will alleviate your woes of mistakenly misplacing these files or losing them. Storage Devices: CD-ROMs, optical storage devices, etc.

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