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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

The wonderful thing about acquisitions is that very few people publicly know who is on the market, who isn’t (but is open for acquisitions), and what the financial status is – unless the company is public, which is an outlier in our space. E-Learning 24/7 No post next week, as I continue my business travels.

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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.

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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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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

The best Microsoft Office courses that looked like the product, with a show me, tell me, let me do it approach – came right from Element K. Then – Client contacts their new LMS vendor or current one, says they need courses in Business, Safety, Software. Back in the day, there were some big names out there.

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CLO Symposium

Jay Cross

The buzz on Friday was Skillsoft’s acquisition of Element K. Some of us speculated that perhaps the acquisition came about to shut up Element K, whose attack ads were irritating Skillsoft mightily: At a lunch sponsored by Knowledge Advisors, David Vance gave an overview of Talent Development Reporting Principles.

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Best of eLearning Learning - First Half of December 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Open Source LMS - eLearning Technology , December 10, 2009. Open Source E-Learning Development 20: Reusable E-Learning Object Authoring & Delivery Suite - The E-Learning Curve , December 10, 2009. Business Casual , December 9, 2009. . - Mobile Learning , December 7, 2009. eLearning Brothers , December 9, 2009.

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DevLearn - Google Wave - Organizational Learning - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Developing Talent: Today’s Most Critical Business Imperative. Open source e-learning development 11: Moodle - The E-Learning Curve , November 9, 2009. The Modalities of Blended Learning - Element K Blog , November 8, 2009. Openness and the Future of Education , November 6, 2009. Tuesday, November 17, 2009.