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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

Who remembers NetG? NetG, was the evil empire of the days gone past – ok, in my mind. speed with no latency issues would be acquired by NetG and shoved into the Raiders of the Ark storage facility, next to the ark itself. Later this year, I will be announcing the top 50 content providers (globally). Its a mixed bag.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

NetG, Element K, being just two. On top of that, I monitor over 1,000 more – globally. Oh, how we missed you – Grovo followed the same approach as Learn.com, and how well did that turn out exactly? Skillsoft – Dominated the course/content marketplace. Acquired numerous content publishers in the early to mid-2000s.

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Merger mania in and around eLearning

The Learning Circuits

And then I hear that back on July 27 Premiere Global Services announced that it was buying Netspoke for $23.2M 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.

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A Conversation with Bryan Austin of mLevel

Kapp Notes

Bryan has had a distinguished career in corporate Learning & Development, including leadership roles with Skillsoft, Kaplan, AchieveGlobal and NETg. One of our global education companies drastically reduced their exposure to fines from the federal government after using mLevel to provide training. He founded Game On!

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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? As the global economy shifts from factory work to service work, workers need the human, judgmental expertise and emotional intelligence that one doesn’t learn in class. eLearning was born.