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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

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. The problem though was that the visions of where ST could get to, oir what was the perceived long-term growth just never materialized. There was solid ARR.

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Enterprise Learning Systems – How I love thee?

eLearning 24-7

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. Do you think they will give you someone that had any problems? The system itself for my audience? Enterprise.  Or the issues with integrations or whatever else. Perhaps

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CLO Competencies: The Path for Future Learning Leaders

CLO Magazine

To accomplish this, future learning executives must be skillful problem solvers and coaches, adept at developing high-performance collaborative teams, and able to impact decisions within and outside of their own organizations. Learning technologies seem less like solutions in search of problems. Thinking in the shorter term.

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Purchasing Courses for your LMS

eLearning 24-7

The problem with purchasing the content, which is typically some form a course (some folks though do buy ebooks), is what you get can be all over the board. Interactive and Engaging. Static – Lots of text and usually some stock images, maybe some java – popups if you are really lucky. And guess what? Who do I buy from?

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The Growing Role of Microlearning

CLO Magazine

All this has created a complex problem: How do learning leaders build and curate all the content employees need? This first generation e-learning was revolutionary, and companies like Skillsoft, NetG, Click2Learn, DigitalThink — my alma mater — and others were born.

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LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers

Tony Karrer

Barriers Importance of Features Some notes on Barriers and Feature Importance: Good news for me - problem with 3rd party consultant scores low as a barrier. :) A lot of the other factors are pretty significant barriers, e.g., cost, customization, flexibility. KnowledgeNet Platform LMS Thomson NETg 2 4.10 GeoMetrix Data Systems Inc.

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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. Kapp: What problem are you solving with the mLevel platform? He founded Game On! Learning in 2012, and subsequently joined mLevel last fall.