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Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Learning about Second Life

Kapp Notes

If you want to know more about Second Life, you can jump into the world and attend classes sponsored by NETg. 7, 2006 -13,788 is the total number of profitable in-world business owners at the end of November Read the article How Real Money Works in Second Life __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

If you didn’t know ID, you would go and purchase a book on it, and self-teach yourself (as I did, happy to provide the name of the book, very useful, albeit dated today). NetG ruined them). Formal and Informal – That’s right, it wasn’t all formal, nor was it designed to be. Next, Taleo bought them.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: eLearning Brand Name Recognition?

Learning Visions

I used to pitch up against some of the "big guys" -- NetG, SkillSoft -- who do some custom development, but the clients would choose our small shop because we provided better customer service. Blog Book Tour: Learning in 3D #lrn3d Allison Rossett: ELearning Isn’t What You Think It. The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew!

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Purchasing Courses for your LMS

eLearning 24-7

PDFs, word docs, e-books, notes. Hmm, let’s see NetG (back in the day), Skillsoft, Playback Media (not the new one out there, but another one – may the rest in peace), a few other shops and Rosetta Stone (yes, that Rosetta Stone). Created by the LMS provider – they build custom content. Video/Audio files.

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Customer Loyalty for Learners? How weird!

The Learning Circuits

One minute I'm reading the Furrygoat experience (found because long ago I used his PocketFeed PocketPC RSS reader), the next minute I'm linked to Kathy Sierra (from the Head First books) for a discussion of thank you's for customer loyalty. Will we ever see this for Capella and University of Phoenix or Thompson NETg ?

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Merger mania in and around eLearning

The Learning Circuits

All of this comes of the heels of SkillSoft releasing SkillSoft Dialogue , their version of a virtual classroom and NETg buying KnowledgeNet last year for their virtual classroom technology/LMS resulting in their Knowledge Now suite.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Remember Digital Think, SmartForce, Pensare, NETg, KnowledgeNet, UNext, Docent, One Touch, Centra, InterWise, and their brethren? Dan Pink’s marvelous book, Drive , the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us , demonstrates that knowledge workers are motivated by a sense of autonomy, mastery, and a purpose that is great than themselves.