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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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History of the LMS

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Most of it came, via 3rd party providers, or what we referred to as “boutique shops” – think custom development (fee-based) that someone, company, government, institution, and so forth hired to create a course or courses. ISP (Internet Service Providers) fees were high. Oh, and access wasn’t free.

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Extended Enterprise Compliance: Mapping the Ecosystem

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COMPLIANCE CONTENT PROVIDERS – To support compliance training requirements, content companies like Beacon , California Chamber of Commerce , OpenSesame, Skillsoft , Syntrio and Vivid Learning Systems produce accredited online course libraries for every type of occupational, health and safety topic. Bill Mastin, SVP at NetDimensions.

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Adobe Captivate Quiz Result Analyzer

Adobe Captivate

The authors had to use some LMS (SumTotal, NetDimensions, Moodle, etc) OR the Email reporting feature of Adobe Captivate. Adobe Captivate Quiz Results Analyzer is a free tool, which provides a solution to the difficulties which authors faced in using LMS or Email reporting. Listed below are the top features of this tool.

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One on One with Jonathan Satchell, CEO, LTG (EXCLUSIVE)

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Craig: LTG owns quite a few companies including Rustici (makers of SCORM Engine and Watershed), NetDimensions, PeopleFluent and gomo. In addition, LTG is providing the services wrapped around the technology so that our clients can derive (and properly measure using big data approaches) true business impact.

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Recommended Learning Systems

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SumTotal Learning Management – They have come a long way. I readily admit for the longest time I was not a fan of SumTotal, but that was then, this is now. I’d like to see more on the administration side, and while the system is top tier, to me it is still missing some data visualization tied to extensive metric data.

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2015 Talented Learning LMS Vendor Award Recipients

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To save the day the cloud was invented and with it the significant fiscal barriers of entry for new LMS providers were removed. The cloud enables new LMS vendors to create and support one product that all customers use providing economies of scale in research, customer support and required investment capital. NetDimensions.