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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. Then Cornerstone came along and bought SumTotal for peanuts, which was a good idea, and here we are with SumTotal.

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eFront as a SumTotal alternative

eFront

The client was using SumTotal as its backbone LMS and was in need of a comprehensive and efficient alternative solution. Why change from SumTotal. The decision to move away from SumTotal was not an easy one. SumTotal is one of the leaders in the LMS space for numeral reasons. Cost of ownership. This one is obvious.

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Going to LTUK2022? My Guide on Which vendors to check out

eLearning 24-7

The challenge with each of these events is that there are a lot of vendors pitching their systems, content, consulting firm, e-learning tool and other items, and you as the person walking the floor doesn’t necessarily know who to look at, who to seriously consider and who to avoid. Expert 101. Over 100 course publishers.

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Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

Docebo

Every company is onboarding, reskilling, and developing its people and companies need dozens of tools to do this well. Not only do companies buy learning tools to train and upskill employees, but many companies also sell learning as a product. And these tools command premium prices. And now it’s getting even hotter.

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eFront as a SumTotal alternative

eFront

The client was using SumTotal as its backbone LMS and was in need of a comprehensive and efficient alternative solution. Why change from SumTotal. The decision to move away from SumTotal was not an easy one. SumTotal is one of the leaders in the LMS space for numeral reasons. Cost of ownership. This one is obvious.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

CBT Prior to online learning known then as WBT, and then the latter term of e-learning (vendors today, use it to refer to content that is online), there was CBT. The authoring tools, the popular ones, followed the similar methodology, of chapter, pages, lessons, assignments/practice, evaluation. WBT (Web-Based Training).

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Want to be successful at e-Learning? Don’t make the mistakes experts make!

Challenge to Learn

It is the same with choosing your e-Learning tooling. You can buy a big system that does all (like Blackboard, Sumtotal, Saba, Cornerstone on demand, et cetera) or you can go for a bunch of specialized tools that will beat that big solution on every specialty. My advice: go with the small specialized tools all the time.