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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

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The initial person who thought buying SumTotal was a great idea (initially it was) and then dumped it for a fortune to Skillsoft (another great idea), which in turn was someone at Skillsoft thinking this was a great idea, which turned out to be false and was a factor in Skillsoft going into bankruptcy due to the albatross known as SumTotal.

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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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History of the LMS

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Learn.com – They came a bit later, but there is a good story, and yes, they still exist. Learn.com started out as an LMS. Taleo promised to invest big $$$ to make Learn.com amazing. The Learn.com former system, is still there, under the Oracle brand, which uh, yeah, not sure, how that looks. Okay more than a decade.

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Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction

Tony Karrer

Skillsoft Learn.com SumTotal Systems Inc. OutStart Learn.com Blackboard, Inc. Skillsoft Cornerstone OnDemand RWD Technologies. KnowledgePlanet Brainvisa eLearning Consultants. XStream Software Linden Research, Inc. Readyco Inc. Desire2Learn Inc. Corel Corporation OnDemand Software SumTotal Systems Inc. Desire2Learn Inc.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

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Some may be free (TED) or some MOOCs, others are fee-based (Skillsoft, Skill Pill, Harvard Business, etc.). . Open Sesame is what we call a content aggregator, in that they sell as one unit, but have content coming from various other providers into their solution. The most famous aggregator back in the day was Learn.com.

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Rapid eLearning Tools

Tony Karrer

Many of these eLearning tools realistically are quite different than what I would consider to be the norm in Rapid eLearning Development tools.

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Top 50 LMS Report for 2016 – What you need to know (criteria, approach, and yeah some vendors)

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I identify the Big Dogs as SumTotal by Skillsoft (yes, that is the actual name), Cornerstone OnDemand, Saba, SucessFactors and Oracle Taleo (although, I ask myself who is using this and if you still are why?). SumTotal by Skillsoft – the 2016 re-haul is a huge plus. SumTotal by Skillsoft. Saba Learning.

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