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Skillsoft Acquires Element K for $110 Million

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

The business of eLearning in corporate training continues to shift. The acquisition adds to SkillSoft's existing offerings in learning content and learning platform technology through the addition of Element K's complementary offerings in e-learning content, virtual labs, ILT print materials and custom development services."

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Skillsoft – An Analyst Perspective

eLearning 24-7

A vendor who made not only poor business decisions with the likes of Percipio, but also with the monumental blunder of acquiring SumTotal. . Percipio was, well, to say it politely an unmitigated disaster, a result of poor business decision making by Skillsoft. This is also about a vendor who lost their way. It is from Percipio.

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BOB MOSHER – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

Before joining APPLY Synergies he was with Microsoft , where he was Director of Learning Strategy and Evangelism, a global business at Microsoft Corporation featuring innovative learning products that help individuals and organizations learn more and go further using Microsoft technologies. We've been begging for this for years.

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eLearning Tour - May 21 - Free

Tony Karrer

More on our tour guides: Karl Kapp Karl is a consultant, speaker, scholar, and expert on the convergence of learning, technology and business operations. Before, Bob was the Executive Director of Education for Element K where he directed and influenced their learning model and products.

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M-Learning: Where’s the app for that?

eLearning 24-7

iPhone – new ones include Free Conferencing, BT Engage Meeting & Conference Plus. If you are a LMS vendor – business, unless your target market is education/academia – then education. They offer other apps too, but you have to visit their site. Yep, an app. Yep, an app. Yes, they have an app. Uh, not likely.

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LearnTrends Audacity and More - Best of eLearning Learning September 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Business applications of Twitter - E-learning in the Corporate Sector , September 3, 2009. The Fallacy of Open/Closed Culture in Social Business Design - Skilful Minds , September 22, 2009. Business Casual , September 7, 2009. Everyone is Talking About Social Media - Element K Blog , September 2, 2009. Hot Topics.

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Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

eLearning Conferences 2010 - eLearning Technology , November 19, 2009. Online Games for Teaching Business Concepts and Ideas - Kapp Notes , October 16, 2009. Twitter Conference Ideas - eLearning Technology , January 30, 2009. Business Casual , December 14, 2008. Should Educators be Afraid of Having a Facebook Profile?