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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

EdCast is still a strong player in the LXP market, although, at the time, they were adding ubiquitous features to the LMS space. Learn.com; Plateau Learning – It seemed like a good idea Count Olaf. I bring up Olaf because the person whose idea led to the acquisition of Learn.com, would have impressed Al Capone.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

Corporate wasn’t really there at the time, some places did it, but it was edtech, the launched the WBT scene, removing the distance learning debacle (which was the key player, think tv to tv or monitor, with people looking at other people, or the instructor, and yes it was very popular even into the 2000s). So, no 640 there.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

Here are the results and the level of exposure to technology tools this community provides: Twitter (2482) Social Network (1999) Wiki (1610) LMS (1346) Podcaster (1239) Facebook (1176) Flash (980) PowerPoint (922) YouTube (843) RSS (814) LinkedIn (798) Second Life (687) iPhone (602) Director (584) Moodle (550) PDF (521) Captivate (515) Wikipedia (502) (..)

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The Augmented LMS: New Life for Talent Management Learning?

Talented Learning

Old-school LMS companies (like SumTotal , Plateau , Learn.com , GeoLearning and Certpoint ) were acquired by much larger talent and HR-suite providers like SAP/SuccessFactors , Infor , Oracle and IBM. Other well-known independent players like Cornerstone , Saba and Workday opted to compete by building their own talent suites.

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Learning Systems for 2018 (#25 to #16)

eLearning 24-7

SuccessFactors, Oracle and others are not. . When I was at LTUK a couple of weeks ago, a vendor who was giving a presentation, showed a slide with Learn.com on it, as though their tool worked with it or something like that, uh Learn.com hasn’t been around in like five plus years. I like them for the CDS angle for learning.

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Something is Going on Down there in the LMS Market

eLearning 24-7

Over 98% do not have a true HTML5 player in their system that can run a 100% pure HTML5 course – which by the way, has nothing to do with the browser agnostic pitch they make about their system being optimized for the iPad. Let’s take a brief look at a couple of recent moves: Taleo acquires Learn.com. Well, he is back.

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Something is Going on Down there in the LMS Market

eLearning 24-7

Over 98% do not have a true HTML5 player in their system that can run a 100% pure HTML5 course – which by the way, has nothing to do with the browser agnostic pitch they make about their system being optimized for the iPad. Let’s take a brief look at a couple of recent moves: Taleo acquires Learn.com. Well, he is back.