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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. E-Learning 24/7 No post next week, as I continue my business travels. There was solid ARR. This was an albatross.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

You can build your own via a 3rd party authoring tool. In addition to adding content, they are now expanding into additional platforms, authoring tools and so forth, but this is about content, so I’ll stay on the path. Who remembers NetG? NetG, was the evil empire of the days gone past – ok, in my mind.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

The latter included an authoring tool, too. NetG, Element K, being just two. Adobe Captivate – They were not the first authoring tool in the industry; Authorware was the first commercial success, heavily used with CBT, and then even into WBT (web-based). Skillsoft – Dominated the course/content marketplace.

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Enterprise Learning Systems – How I love thee?

eLearning 24-7

Sadly, one day I called, they were out of business, sold to the nefarious NetG – who likely placed them in a huge warehouse next to the remains of a famous pharaoh. ” They won’t be in business if they say, “Oh, for privacy, or PII, yeah, we are horrible at that. The system itself for my audience?

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I need your advice on learning profiles

The Learning Circuits

full disclosure - As some of you may know, I joined Thomson NETg in January to run one of their strategic business units called Collaboration (essentially what was KnowledgeNet whom they acquired in late 2004). Is this useful or just cleverly cloaked marketing?

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CLO Competencies: The Path for Future Learning Leaders

CLO Magazine

That very question was asked in a recent survey by Chief Learning Officer magazine of executives who are members of its Business Intelligence Board. What work experiences and associated broad competencies will this next generation need? Of equal importance was the strategic thought process that followed the implementation of these projects.

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LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers

Tony Karrer

An LMS is a big, expensive tool that takes quite a bit of work and is generally harder than you think it's going to be when you start out. Tools for On-Demand Information - An LMS? KnowledgeNet Platform LMS Thomson NETg 2 4.10 The dissatisfaction numbers are high in general. And this is not being reported only in this research.

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