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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. . They reported assets and liabilities between 1 billion and 10 billion dollars. This is also about a vendor who lost their way. According to Skillsoft the goal is to cut over 1.5

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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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LearnTrends - Google Wave - DevLearn - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Moodle Reporting and User Management: Is MOOMIS the answer? eLearning report: Review of Learning 2.0 Business Casual , November 17, 2009. The Modalities of Blended Learning - Element K Blog , November 8, 2009. Best Practices for Creating Online Courses - eLearning Brothers , November 11, 2009.

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Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Online Games for Teaching Business Concepts and Ideas - Kapp Notes , October 16, 2009. Business Casual , December 14, 2008. Moodle Reporting and User Management: Is MOOMIS the answer? There’s nothing rapid about Rapid eLearning - Getting Down to Business , October 5, 2009. Blender - Training Solutions , November 23, 2009.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

If you’re like me, you’ve probably been busy, as well. aLearning , September 24, 2010 Remember awhile back when I posted on ASAE’s “Associations and CEOs: A Report on Two Studies During a Down Economy.&# The good news is that the new report, “Decision to Learn,&# seems to clarify things. ’ million in 2009.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Even in organisations where L&D priorities are closely aligned with business priorities there’s plenty of head-room for improvement. Jason Rosenthal, CEO of Ning , announced the shift in the company’s business model while downsizing his company by more than 40%. Create contrast Always. T-Bite – What is Contextual Collaboration? -