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30 years of personal computing

Clive on Learning

The latest edition of Personal Computer World (PCW) magazine includes an interesting review of the key events and changes that have occurred in the thirty years since its first publication. Big fuss about multimedia, as CD-ROM becomes mainstream. Low-cost ISDN made available to consumers. 1990: Windows 3.0

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What goes round: video and learning

Clive on Learning

But by the late 1980s, CD-ROM had taken the place of videodisc, media went digital, and they took our video away. The CD was designed as a music carrier and had neither the bandwidth nor the capacity for decent video. It is difficult, maybe even impossible, to represent these events using text and graphics.

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The Ultimate Glossary of eLearning Terms

LearnUpon

The first official eLearning content standard, AICC was developed by the Aviation Industry CBT Committee in 1993 as a CD-ROM based standard. Companies should be wary of the value a “free” learning platform can deliver an alert to the costs quickly accrued in maintaining, updating and supporting an LMS without a vendor.