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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

They had some other clever ideas, but I remember telling their CEO on a webinar panel that mobile learning was the next big thing, and he disagreed. When they went course aggregator, I saw them as a nice alternative to Skillsoft who was off acquiring other course providers including NetG and then down the road, Element K.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

I consider them the first, because Skillsoft just acquired course publishers, NetG – who acquired the most amazing video course solution, which could run on 38.8Kps, and you could bookmark the courses – unheard of. NetG ruined them). ExpertusOne was the very first vendor to have a mobile app with geolocation.

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Enterprise Learning Systems – How I love thee?

eLearning 24-7

There wasn’t a mobile then, but think about this. The Sadly, one day I called, they were out of business, sold to the nefarious NetG – who likely placed them in a huge warehouse next to the remains of a famous pharaoh. Today, very few vendors offer this depth. The system ran on a 56K modem, even 38K, which I often had. And

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

But KA is a mobile app thing, not the LMS itself. NetG, Element K, being just two. As mentioned in other posts, the first legit LXP in the space. Growth Engineering – See above (in the post). Knowledge Arcade makes up 50% of their sales (for 2020), and will likely do at least that for 2021. Skillsoft).

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Content – Change the Narrative

eLearning 24-7

At one time, it was the biggest brand out there, and a vendor who bought up other well-known content providers such as NetG and ElementK. My retort was look at how many people are taking foreign language content on their mobile devices. . I’ve never found their content to be engaging, Harvard that is.

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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. We have just as many success stories where mLevel has been integrated into classroom or virtual classroom programs as we do with purely online and mobile e-learning programs.

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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? People at the big events are talking about informal learning, social learning, simulations, webinars, mobile, virtual classrooms, community, interactivity, and web 2.0. eLearning was born.