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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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Learning System Award Winners 2019

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The third market are learning platforms – these are folks who have many of the standards, include training/learning components, but are not an LMS (and often are more streamlined). A training management system for example, would slide under learning platforms, same as a training operations system. Learning Platforms. .

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NexGen Learning System Grid 2018-19

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For example, I like Thought Industries as a customer training LMS, but the platform is missing items for NexGen, which is suprising because it has the modern UI, which folks would thus assume, oh, it must be NexGen. . That is something to say when you provide training or L&D to your employees and customers. Everyone is a Winner.

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Learning In Practice Awards 2012

CLO Magazine

Employees using PwC Canada’s Enhanced Working Practices score 12 percent higher in people engagement and high-performance team scores than their peers. IBM’s industry learning team delivers training to 70,000 learners in 171 countries every year. Excellence in Social Learning: Gold: Skillsoft Corp.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

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Heck, even before we had online learning, and courses were CBT (Computer Based Training), you could find 3rd party course providers. . Some may be free (TED) or some MOOCs, others are fee-based (Skillsoft, Skill Pill, Harvard Business, etc.). . Skillsoft too. Skillsoft – B2B, partnerships. Who remembers NetG?

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Grids are gone, Welcome2 T-Quad

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Wild Card are all the tangibles – support, training, roadmap track-record, Tier 1 NexGen. From all that information noted above with the three T’s will come a mini-table listing the top three that score the highest in each quad (points will be identified, so there is no confusion. Widget scores 16 points.

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