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Merger mania in and around eLearning

The Learning Circuits

All of this comes of the heels of SkillSoft releasing SkillSoft Dialogue , their version of a virtual classroom and NETg buying KnowledgeNet last year for their virtual classroom technology/LMS resulting in their Knowledge Now suite. Hopefully it will result in some truly innovative stuff versus people scrambling to get into liferafts.

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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? Chief Learning Officers aren’t satisfied with the outcomes of current corporate learning practices. Most workers have better connections to the Internet and social software at home than on the job.