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Tech Company Grovo Hires First CLO

CLO Magazine

Summer Salomonsen will lead the technology vendor in its learning and development strategy. Grovo, an education technology company that was founded in 2010 and focuses on microlearning applications through its technology, professional services and content library, hired its first chief learning officer, Summer Salomonsen.

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Latest in the Learning System Market

eLearning 24-7

Why, would a system that pushes heavily around the customer education/partner training segment, acquire a vendor who does the complete opposite? If Valamis wanted to push heavy and truly commit to the CE segment, they would have acquired a vendor who has capabilities or features or even themselves plays in the CE side. That’s it.

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Hits and Misses in 2022 – Learning Systems Edition

eLearning 24-7

A complete tutorial available online with visual steps, i.e. you can see how it works, then play within a sandbox environment (you create it). A perfect example of what this will likely look like or at least where you can get a sense is how Shopify does it, if you want to hire a dev team to create/change your web site. The Benefit?

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Excellence in E-Learning

CLO Magazine

Excellence in E-Learning: Recognizes vendors that have rolled out an innovative and effective e-learning program or suite for a client. The first course they created, Insights for Innovation, consisted of five self-paced modules featuring short instructional videos, discussion and projects that can be completed over six weeks.

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Going Long on Shorter Learning

CLO Magazine

He couldn’t find one so he created one himself. Vendors like BenchPrep are placing their bets on personalized learning technology paired with shorter, bite-sized learning to answer the challenge. What creates specific engagement for a specific learner might not work for someone else,” he said. This was 2008.

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WORSTs E-Learning 2017 Awards

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The big minus – is that Grovo, did this in such a snarky manner (IMO) and I wonder if they realized what the perception would be when people found out? Because it was bad and continues to be, at least with vendors and I have seen it with everyday consumers too. . Oracle was an early adopter, so there’s that.

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Learning Experience Platform – WRONG

eLearning 24-7

Before diving into the functionality they all possess, I’d add a few points: They are ideally suited as a “bolt-on” to an LMS, while they can be a standalone, in nearly all cases the vendors have told me, that the majority of their customers already have an LMS. They are Learn Amp, Degreed and Grovo. .