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Skillsoft buying SumTotal – My Take

eLearning 24-7

Like many of you, I was surprised to find out that Skillsoft is in the process of acquiring SumTotal. Combination of Skillsoft and SumTotal offers comprehensive, content-rich HR solutions. Who provides learning or training (some people see a difference between) to customers? Getting back to Skillsoft and SumTotal.

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Skillsoft – An Analyst Perspective

eLearning 24-7

This is a story about a one-time giant in the 3rd party off-the-shelf content providers. A vendor who made not only poor business decisions with the likes of Percipio, but also with the monumental blunder of acquiring SumTotal. . On the other hand, it had IBM Talent Watson in its system, before SumTotal did. That’s it.

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Learning Solutions Series: Top 10 Learning Management Systems

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About half (51.9%) of the organizations surveyed in the 2014 Learning Technology Solutions Forecast Study (report available here ) own a learning management system , most often referred to as an “LMS.” A learning management system is the most popular online learning tool, and the one with which people are most familiar.

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E-Learning Jargon: What you might think it is.well…

eLearning 24-7

Don”t fall for the trap that someone has been doing e-learning since 93 or less, because what they are actually stipulating is that they provided CBT and whatever at that point. . But SumTotal and alike do it as well. Great for the 70’s, in 2014 not so much. Jargon has become universal in 2014.

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Top 50 LMS Mid Rankings Report – What you need to know

eLearning 24-7

User interface and user experience - This to me is extremely important – if people can’t figure it out and it does not provide a user friendly experience, then it doesn’t matter about the feature sets. Modern UI – front and back - Ties a bit to the top criteria point, but this is 2014, not 1999. MyBigCampus.

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Bob Little – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

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As the Senior Partner of Bob Little Press & PR , you have been providing business-to-business public relations (PR) services to many organizations in the ‘learning’ and ‘learning technologies’ industry for years. THE INTERVIEW: 1. Learnnovators: Hi Bob. How has the journey been so far? a year – making it some US$48bn about now.

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Step right up to the LMS Sideshow

eLearning 24-7

The first to use SumTotal. Course upload content - Any system in the market should enable you to upload courses via a 3rd party authoring tool, via a 3rd party course provider, PowerPoint, PDFs/Docs., 2014 learning management system LMS LMS RFP selecting a LMS' The point is, someone has to be the first one out there to try it.

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