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#DevLearn retrospective: Start dreaming about the future of eLearning

Challenge to Learn

The stories in movies like Titanic and Avatar were impossible to realize with the techniques available at the time the stories were written. So they created the techniques in order to be able to create the movies. It will be a mutual challenge for the people who are developing this standard, for vendors and for eLearning developers.

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Instructional Design vs. Instructional Development: What’s the Difference?

eLearningMind

However, if eLearning were like movie making, using these words interchangeably would be like confusing the screenwriter with the director, and vice versa. While they work together, each has specific roles and expertise that ultimately result in putting a “big picture” in the movie theater. Instructional Development (The Director).

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LXP Buying? It isn’t so crystal clear.

eLearning 24-7

Is it the buy-in of a word, a term or a narrative that makes it appear as though it isn’t anything as an LMS or a Learning Platform that pushes vendors themselves to ‘add it’ or ‘sell it’ in such a way that they know people will purchase it? Twist and Spin. No, it’s not a different learning experience.

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2021 Turkey Awards

eLearning 24-7

For me, I toss in some terms that need to go or be stopped in their tracks before confusion does more to hurt than help. It has been a reader favorite and yes, a few vendors have been, uh, extremely unhappy. Functionality that is out of date, and either vendor are removing it OR needs a serious update via UI and UX. .

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2020 Learning System Awards (by Vertical/Industry)

eLearning 24-7

Ahh, remember the days when you could attend a movie without ever seeing one commercial ad as though you are watching television? Which reminds me, I often wonder how many people are even watching live TV (and not recorded) when it is not a sporting event or a commercial-free movie? There is a bat on the loose. Absolutely not.

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Learning System Awards #11 to #20 (2023)

eLearning 24-7

I bet that is the first time you have seen a mashup between music from Hair (great musical, bad movie) and a holiday tune. Questions – Each learning system vendor was asked a series of questions. I see this in pricey systems, systems where the vendor has a lot of sales, generates healthy profit, etc. Let the sunshine in.

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What you can expect in 2019

eLearning 24-7

We are about to see a movie that we have been waiting for to come out. Cost is a key factor, and while authoring tool vendors are jumping into VR with new functionality, the truth of the whole matter is that VR headsets haven’t punched thru the L&D and/or training departments across the globe. . Expectations.

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