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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.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

For example, Growth Engineering was a trailblazer as it relates to gamification and utilizing it within their entire platform. NetG, Element K, being just two. Fun fact – The new SumTotal front-end was from Percipio (Skillsoft’s LXP platform). They are a 100% Talent Development Platform. Skillsoft).

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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

Nowadays thanks to the growth of Learning Engagement Platforms, whereas content is a requirement – an essential no less, LMS vendors are jumping head first into the content marketplace that is viewable by all clients (rather than pitching the content via the phone or other comm method). Who remembers NetG? Real interactive stuff.

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NIIT and OpenSesame Announce Content Partnership

OpenSesame

Known worldwide as a leader in learning outsourcing, with a presence in more than 44 countries, NIIT provides relevant training to organizations, brings proven best practices into business processes, and redirects surplus training capital into core business functions.

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M-Learning: Where’s the app for that?

eLearning 24-7

Sure, it is for their specific mobile learning platform (and I’m glad they do it), but they have one. iPad/iPad2 – 24 apps, of which 3 are companies with some form of a platform – CellCast, vMobiLearn. iPhone – 73 apps, and StudyWiz mobile elocker as the only one I saw that had a platform tied to it.

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