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Learner Management System (LCM):
A software system designed to facilitate the planning, delivering and managing of all learning events within an organisation, including online, virtual classroom, and instructor-led courses. It provides a single point of access to disparate learning sources.
Learner Content Management System (LCMS):
A system that creates, stores, assembles and delivers personalised e-learning content in the [...]

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E-Learning standards are a way of categorizing and organising learning content. However, each company/author is able to create their own categories and ways of sorting data (since XML tags are not predefined and you must define your own tags). To my understanding, the AICC (Aviation Industry CBT Committee) contributed to e-learning standards by creating universal categorising system. This system, [...]

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XML stands for EXtensible Markup Language
XML is a markup language much like HTML
 Extensibility means making it possible to extend capabilities. Markup tags describe how the document is structured
XML was designed to describe data (XML describes what the data is, while HTML describes what the data does.
XML categorizes the text to describe what it actually is [...]

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Learning Object: A digital resource that can be reused to support learning (David Wiley).
When I finally discovered this definition, in David Wileys article, the first thing I thought was, “Is that all?”. Why are these learning objects of such importance, and why are they subject to argument and debate to the extent that Wiley seems a [...]

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Here are some definitions  of terms relevant to e-learning technologies (courtesy of Wikipedia and Dictionary.com):
Network: A complex, interconnected group or system.
Intranet: A privately maintained computer network that can be accessed only by authorised persons, especially members of the particular institution that owns it.
Extranet: An extension of an institutions intranet, especially over the World Wide Web, [...]

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Hi Everyone, this is my new weblog for 2006. My old one can be found at www.incsub.org/uts/ula.
Hoping everyone had a fantastic 3 months of holidays. I know I did, I spent one amazing month in India with my boyfriend and only got back on wednesday night- which is why I have missed the first E-Learning class [...]

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