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

Learning Visions

It’s like in the olden days of elearning when we all moved from CD ROMS to the Internet. Socializing change Pilot Build momentum Case example is an ipad app – Product Knowledge for sales reps: Has access to pharma products package inserts. Mobile is different. Today, people are making a lot of mistakes.

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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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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. It changed our product development, marketing, sales and customer support. Product development. It actually connected sales directly to our product development. Customer support. A dramatic shift.

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A Brief Historical Look at Corporate Training

Litmos

According to wikipedia:“If computerized automation increased factory production, it could do the same for academic instruction.”. Mailing CD-ROM courses to offices around the world was significantly cheaper than regularly sending instructors to the same sites. A problem we still struggle with today.

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

Kitaboo

This can promote higher productivity, too, by doing away with the laborious process of searching for physical files over and over again. Storage Devices: CD-ROMs, optical storage devices, etc. Creating a digital library will alleviate your woes of mistakenly misplacing these files or losing them. Offline Resources.

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The Various Modes of E-learning for Corporate Training

CommLab India

CD-ROM based learning. Today, eLearning has come a long way from CD-ROM to mobile-based learning. A few of them include product sales training and HR training. Now, sales reps are able to go through the training material before meeting customers to refresh product knowledge at their pace.