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Stephen Downes

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The author adapts Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle to show that e-learning hype peaked in 2000 with high stock prices and John Chambers' "e-learning is the next killer app" comment. He speculates that e-learning has now hit a trough and that we can expect an upturn. "Despite the current climate," he writes, "the e-learning hype cycle tells us that just as the highest highs were unsustainable, so too are the lowest lows." Be sure to click on the next page for the comments.

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