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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. I have been credited with the first use of eLearning on the web. 2002 Update : I just came upon an article on the web that talks of eLearning in 1997. The meme of learning was replacing training. License.

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. I have been credited with the first use of eLearning on the web. 2002 Update : I just came upon an article on the web that talks of eLearning in 1997. The meme of learning was replacing training. License.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

When I’ve pointed this out in presentations at conferences, members of the audience ask what they can do to improve informal learning. Innovating in the face of change. Hence, it’s not promoted at conferences, in magazines, and through sales calls. This stands common sense on its head. Keeping the promises made to our customers.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Forward-looking companies established corporate universities and tried to become Learning Organizations. eLearning was born. Venture capitalists funded scores of eLearning companies, most of which disappeared in the dot-com crash a few years later. Future, innovation. In the late 1990s, the web changed everything.