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Virtual Corporate University : Thomson Netg

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

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. Secondlife and the other tools coming out in this space are absolutely the next step. The New Media Center held an inworld tour of the ThomsonNetg campus this morning.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

The majority of people creating the courses used authoring tools, such as Authorware (difficult to learn, but robust), Dazzler Max (I used it, learning curve though), Lectora (difficult to learn) and many others that existed then. NetG ruined them). Instructional design was actually being used. Yep, readily available.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

I thought about this, as you can tell, and said to myself, okay, let’s write a post where the e-learning history and thus learning systems, authoring tools, and alike are intertwined with good and bad ideas. He noted that they are either good or bad, yet most folks only think about the good ones.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

You can build your own via a 3rd party authoring tool. In addition to adding content, they are now expanding into additional platforms, authoring tools and so forth, but this is about content, so I’ll stay on the path. Who remembers NetG? NetG, was the evil empire of the days gone past – ok, in my mind.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

The latter included an authoring tool, too. NetG, Element K, being just two. Adobe Captivate – They were not the first authoring tool in the industry; Authorware was the first commercial success, heavily used with CBT, and then even into WBT (web-based). Skillsoft – Dominated the course/content marketplace.

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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. Ditto on the 3rd party content, including one vendor who figured out how to create a video with bookmarks and chapters that streamed without issue on a 56K modem. Sadly,

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I need your advice on learning profiles

The Learning Circuits

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.

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