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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

You might have chat rooms (my system, the one I initially built, and then the one I purchased – GeoLearning), forums, discussion boards, a library (mine did, including checkout capabilities), even classrooms (the appearance of them, I never used it). NetG ruined them). Is Kirkpatrick still in play? Next, Taleo bought them.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Don Kirkpatrick proposed a model for measuring the outcomes of training. Remember Digital Think, SmartForce, Pensare, NETg, KnowledgeNet, UNext, Docent, One Touch, Centra, InterWise, and their brethren? Training departments purchased libraries of this garbage and touted cost savings. eLearning was born.