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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

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Someone came up with a term for DVD content, a horrible idea – and well, nobody remembers it. GO1 picked off Anders Pink, which initially was a good idea; I mean, GO1 didn’t know the impact of AI in the content finding and bringing in (nobody did), and their strategy for leveraging AP was smart. And the rest is history.

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History of the LMS

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CBT Prior to online learning known then as WBT, and then the latter term of e-learning (vendors today, use it to refer to content that is online), there was CBT. ISP (Internet Service Providers) fees were high. Ditto with courses you provided to your employees, association members, students and so forth.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

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There may come a time, when you need content. Content these days, well, it is an umbrella term to represent courses (micro too), videos, articles, materials, workbooks, other types of learning resources, podcasts and so forth. If it can be consumed for knowledge, then it slides under content. . Who remembers NetG?

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

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Learn.com – First a content aggregator, then jumped into the LMS market, acquired by Taleo, who promised to invest heavily. If you ever wondered what down the tubes look like, look no further than Learn.com. Oh, how we missed you – Grovo followed the same approach as Learn.com, and how well did that turn out exactly?

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LMS Low-Cost Webinars Hosted eCommerce Subscriptions

Tony Karrer

I was talking with a startup that has an existing audience and now want to provide a monthly subscription for access to training to this audience. The learners will get access to webinars, recorded webinars, videos, and other online content that they will author separately. They are early stage, so low-cost would be good.

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Kevin Oakes on the Rise and Fall of the LMS

Tony Karrer

And when you go look at the LMS providers, they don't call themselves an LMS anymore: • SumTotal is a global provider of talent and learning management solutions. • Saba is the premier global provider of strategic human capital management (HCM) software and services.

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Latest Negative E-Learning Trends

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The point of it all, is that this negative trend skews the data out of the gate and your results on future depth will provide you with erroneous information, especially as part of a gap analysis for future learning and growth. Otherwise, they will follow the route of Learn.com. Learn.com started as a course aggregator.

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