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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 don’t have cable TV, but download or stream most of our media content over the Internet. I had never sent an email; I had never made a call on a mobile phone. We are adapting as we speak.

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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

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. Now it’s viewed as passé.

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Cloud Based Collaboration: Advancing Educational Publishing

Kitaboo

Online or offline digital copies of the library’s catalog may be contained on CD-ROMs or USB keys. Many libraries have also included audiobook versions of their books in their catalogs, allowing students to listen while reading along with the text on a screen or printouts of books they want to read later when they have more time.

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A Brief Historical Look at Corporate Training

Litmos

Mailing CD-ROM courses to offices around the world was significantly cheaper than regularly sending instructors to the same sites. Companies providing CD-ROM training content boomed, as production no longer required programmers to create it. This decade also has seen the rise of streaming media and virtual reality.

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John Maeda The Art of Leadership #LSCon

Learning Visions

This stream of learning is mastery. Technology…delivery text, images, music, movies…there’s a pattern across CD ROMS to browsers to phones…we’re kind of stuck in this loop now. Conceptual Knowledge (The How): I’m going to learn and make sense of this. Gather the skills and get the concepts.

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The future of e-Learning, according to Kasper Spiro | Change to learn

Challenge to Learn

We published them on CD-ROM’s as Computer Based training (CBT). But main stream e-learning is in most cases still a page turner with some nice interactive snacks in the middle. We published them on CD-ROM’s as Computer Based training (CBT).&# Let’s first look at where we are and how we got there.

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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. A wide range of systems can now securely communicate with a simple vocabulary that captures this stream of activities and can sends these back to an LMS.