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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

E-loan announced e-track. 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. E-mail was becoming e mail. People read e-zines and e-books. The meme of learning was replacing training.

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

E-loan announced e-track. 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. E-mail was becoming e mail.

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

E-loan announced e-track. 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. E-mail was becoming e mail.

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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. In the late 1990s, the web changed everything. Workers are disgruntled.