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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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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. Acquisitions Any company that acquires another – in our case, a learning system- always thinks it is a great idea.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

This past week on LinkedIn I wrote about four trailblazers in the early days of the industry, learning systems – and what made them special (one has since hit speed bump), and four who trailblazed and then hit a major speed bump into, well, lost their way. Plateau Learning – I never understood the love for this system.

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BOB MOSHER – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

ABOUT BOB MOSHER: Bob Mosher is a senior partner, and the Chief Learning Evangelist, at APPLY Synergies , a strategic consulting firm that specializes in helping learning organizations design, develop and measure effective learning and performance support strategies to meet The 5 Moments of Learning Need.

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TOP eLearning and Workplace Learning Blogs

eFront

During the last 5 years I was able to exchange ideas, share thoughts, and learn from an eLearning community of practice that exists in the blogosphere. I did my research and I listed 134 eLearning and workplace Learning Blogs. We support Free eLearning! > The list is in alphabetical order.

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Meet the CLO Advisory Board: Bob Mosher

CLO Magazine

Chief Learning Officer recently sat down with Bob Mosher, CEO and chief learning evangelist for APPLY Synergies. Chief Learning Officer: Where is your hometown? CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? CLO: What lessons did you learn back in 2020 that you’ve taken with you into 2021?

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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. . Where SumTotal sales people never pushed Percipio as an add-on or addition to SumTotal Learning, even referring it an an “afterthought” as one senior sales executive once told me.