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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. From now on, when asked if I invented the term eLearning, I’m going to point the questioner here and say, no, it wasn’t me, it was that guy.

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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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Get Microsoft LMS integration to improve and enhance your eLearning experience

Paradiso

In fact, we are one of the few eLearning companies in the market that provides this integration. The users get one-click access to the LMS in the cloud from behind the firewall. There are lots of benefits to come to your company when thinking of a Microsoft LMS Integration. No need to switch between platforms.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. I’ll be leading a series of master classes on informal learning and working smarter in Europe. Informal Learning – the other 80%. Because organizations are oblivious to informal learning, they fail to invest in it. Execution is the goal.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

The 1980s saw the shift from an industrial to an information economy. 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.