Learning Thursday #10 – The Many Acronyms of Learning Technology
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Have you ever noticed how many acronyms there are in the learning and development industry?
You’d think we were NASA. Every instructional design model, every teaching method, and every new flavor of learning technology has an acronym. Why?
In two words: Marketing strategy.
Take learning technology vendors for example. Many acronyms are used to delineate different types of learning systems, when in fact the functionality across the categories is similar. For reference, here are some of the more prominent learning system categories. Feel free to comment other types below this article:
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