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Thompson Leaves Learning Market

Tony Karrer

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.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

I do not mean this in a negative way, rather the folks or the individual who said let’s sale to Taleo, and everyone nodded their heads, either never heard of the Count or unfamiliar with the Capone story. I bring up Olaf because the person whose idea led to the acquisition of Learn.com, would have impressed Al Capone.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

Who remembers NetG? NetG, was the evil empire of the days gone past – ok, in my mind. speed with no latency issues would be acquired by NetG and shoved into the Raiders of the Ark storage facility, next to the ark itself. Many had zero issue doing this, after all, why pay the middleman, when you can have it all (the sale)?

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Skillsoft – An Analyst Perspective

eLearning 24-7

Where SumTotal sales people never pushed Percipio as an add-on or addition to SumTotal Learning, even referring it an an “afterthought” as one senior sales executive once told me. Remember when I noted that some vendors saw them as the “evil empire?”

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

Knowledge Arcade makes up 50% of their sales (for 2020), and will likely do at least that for 2021. NetG, Element K, being just two. Analytics continues to be a Jekyll and Hyde. As mentioned in other posts, the first legit LXP in the space. Growth Engineering – See above (in the post). Skillsoft). from other vendors).

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SCORM: What you should be asking your LMS Vendor to be

eLearning 24-7

You would be surprised on how many sales reps have zero clue. Better yet, what does it mean to YOU when trying to find that LMS or LCMS vendor? How do you know that they really know what they are talking about? I’ll exclude the technical components or specifics on SCORM and AICC – plenty of info. out there on the net for that.

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CLO Competencies: The Path for Future Learning Leaders

CLO Magazine

Along with their experience with these activities, future learning executives also must have acumen in sales and marketing. This includes both external (company products and services) and internal (projects, campaigns, programs) sales and marketing activities. Comment below or email editors@CLOmedia.com. .

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