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Thompson Leaves Learning Market

Tony Karrer

Not only have they just completed the sale of their NETg subsidiary to SkillSoft for $270 million , but they have also announced they are selling Higher Education assets of Thomson Learning to a couple of venture funds for $7.75

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

When they went course aggregator, I saw them as a nice alternative to Skillsoft who was off acquiring other course providers including NetG and then down the road, Element K. Learn.com wasn’t a bad system. It wasn’t great or okay, good, but there were people who liked it.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Remember Digital Think, SmartForce, Pensare, NETg, KnowledgeNet, UNext, Docent, One Touch, Centra, InterWise, and their brethren? Inexpensive alternative to training. In the late 1990s, the web changed everything. eLearning was born. Predominant way people learn to do their jobs. Continuous. Haphazard, lackadaisical, sloppy.