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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

Text-to-Speech Examples Text-to-Speech Costs – Licensing and Pricing But what I learned from this was that it was a fantastic way to learn about a topic where I was interested but didn’t have the time to spend researching it. Top eLearning Sites? Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0

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A Moving Landscape

CLO Magazine

You look at organizations like Skillsoft, for example, that have a catalog even bigger today but that once upon a time had hundreds of courses that were relatively skills-based, self-paced things. It’s a format and accessibility and opportunity cost issue, if we’re talking about technology-facilitated training.

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Top Picks for 2016 – E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

No, but then again, this is an issue with many course providers including Lynda.com and Skillsoft. . As noted earlier, I see this with a lot course providers (and aggregators) including Lynda.com, Skillsoft and even the MOOC freebies via Coursera (for example). The cost for Lifetime is about $63 per computer. SmartPixel.

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Reading the tea Leaves in my tabs: Our ecosystem is Commodified

Mark Oehlert

Why in the world do I need to buy a library of training from SkillSoft (just an example) when I can just cherry pick the training I want to pay for (for me or my people) right from here? The list above is just what's open in my tabs right now and it has me thinking. . The first five sites commoditize training on a range of technical topics.

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When is a LMS not a LMS?

eLearning 24-7

Cannot upload off the shelf content from a 3rd party vendor – say Rosetta Stone or Skillsoft or in some cases e-learning marketplaces. Low cost – again there are plenty of LMS vendors out there whose pricing is comparable and in some cases lower.

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Top 50 LMS Report for 2016 – What you need to know (criteria, approach, and yeah some vendors)

eLearning 24-7

I identify the Big Dogs as SumTotal by Skillsoft (yes, that is the actual name), Cornerstone OnDemand, Saba, SucessFactors and Oracle Taleo (although, I ask myself who is using this and if you still are why?). SumTotal by Skillsoft – the 2016 re-haul is a huge plus. SumTotal by Skillsoft. Saba Learning.

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When It Comes to Technology, All That Glitters Is Not Gold

CLO Magazine

Fortunately, it can be relatively easy and low cost to enable organic information-sharing by providing employees with GoPro cameras, or encouraging them to use their smartphones to capture best practices on the job that can be shared with colleagues. The Quest for Metrics.

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