If you are still wondering what Secondlife is all about and how it is being used in corporate universities, then you must check out this video from Thomson Netg . The New Media Center held an inworld tour of the ThomsonNetg campus this morning. I now remember why I've been a big advocate of interactive 3D learning for 10+ years.

KnowledgeNet Platform LMS Thomson NETg 2 4.10 Update, Nov. 2007 - I've created a series of posts around Learning Management System (LMS) Selection: LMS Selection Presentation LMS Team Size and Time Learning Management System RFP LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process I thought I had previously wrote about this, but I realized when I was posting Learning Management Systems (LMS) Gotchas that I'd not previously talked about the results from participating in the eLearningGuild's Learning Management System research

Not only have they just completed the sale of their NETg subsidiary to SkillSoft for $270 million , but they have also announced they are selling Higher Education assets of Thomson Learning to a couple of venture funds for $7.75 Saw Thomson Corp exists Learning Market on Learning Reflections... billion.

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Joining the round table were: Nige Howarth, NETg Martyn Sloman, CIPD David Wilson eLearnity Kevin ODonnell, CISCO Laura Overton, SmartForce Jim Parrish, Centra Adrian Snook, DigitalThink Jenny Emby Alenia Marconi David Bullock Herbert Smith. Here are the actions recommended by the group as a way of securing early results from your e-learning strategy. 1 .Use If you can show that new training methods are bringing a return then this is much more important than where the courseware comes from." Nige Howarth from

Situation: Part of my new job includes implementing Thomson NetG/SkillSoft to replace GWU's homegrown GLearn system. As a result, I need to convert all of the existing Captivate tutorials to be SCORM compliant and publishable to NetG. Do you know anyone that uses Captivate and imports it to NetG who would be willing to share one of their working Captivate files? You can leave a comment here or contact me at wwickha1@gmail.com I have also sent the same I need help! Please let me know if you need more information.

All of this comes of the heels of SkillSoft releasing SkillSoft Dialogue , their version of a virtual classroom and NETg buying KnowledgeNet last year for their virtual classroom technology/LMS resulting in their Knowledge Now suite . First, on Monday, WebEx buys intranets.com for $45M in cash ( details ) then today SumTotal buys Pathlore for $29M in cash ( details ) and $19M in stock. And then I hear that back on July 27 Premiere Global Services announced that it was buying Netspoke for $23.2M

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Vendors like NETg use simulations to allow the learner the freedom to explore in a safe environment, with no risk to real data. In fact, NETg boasts that they incorporate more simulations in its training content than any other vendor, with some courses including over 900! But it is in the soft skills arena that some of the most innovative applications can be found. Games e-learners play by Clive Shepherd Perhaps the single, biggest obstacle to the future success of e-learning is just plain boredom. Too many courses deal with abstract concepts rather than

full disclosure - As some of you may know, I joined Thomson NETg in January to run one of their strategic business units called Collaboration (essentially what was KnowledgeNet whom they acquired in late 2004). Very exciting (at least to me) but what I need is your feedback on a tool that Thomson NETg developed which I think is a hidden gem. Is this By answering 25 online questions it builds a high-level personalized learning profile (for overall learning not just eLearning). I