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History of the LMS

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Prodigy (the first portal, pre-CompuServe and AOL -for home use), modem was 4800 bytes. Other options were universities who went online, via Lotus Notes. Heck, I was in a doctorate program, whereas the majority of the ‘courses’ was via Lotus Notes, the other was ILT. Then, the speed kicked up to 9600.

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Online Learning in Education

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Popular ones included Lotus Notes, Blackboard and WebCT. 75% of institutions report that the economic downturn has increased the demand of online programs/courses (Sloan Consortium – survey based on 2,500 institutions). By 2015, Marketdata predicts that 37% of all post-secondary enrollments will be in online programs.