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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

Before the web, we had EDI (electronic data interchange) and EFT (electronic funds transfer). Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. A big part of the sales pitch for early versions of web-supported learning was the elimination of costly trainers. E-loan announced e-track.

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

Before the web, we had EDI (electronic data interchange) and EFT (electronic funds transfer). Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. A big part of the sales pitch for early versions of web-supported learning was the elimination of costly trainers. E-loan announced e-track.

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

Before the web, we had EDI (electronic data interchange) and EFT (electronic funds transfer). Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. A big part of the sales pitch for early versions of web-supported learning was the elimination of costly trainers. E-loan announced e-track.

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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. We will help you by giving it a much more personal approach. This means users only need one ID to log into both platforms.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

So the worker checks Google or SlashDot or other resources on the web to see who’s got books or articles or blogs or case studies on her topic. The hunger for proprietary knowledge does not stop at the firewall. Consider Cisco, a company with a staggering thirst for new-product information and detail. Breathtakingly fast.

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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. In the late 1990s, the web changed everything. eLearning was born. Venture capitalists funded scores of eLearning companies, most of which disappeared in the dot-com crash a few years later.