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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

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Someone came up with the idea to create templates for developing courses quickly – and no, it wasn’t someone from Adobe or Articulate. I was using DazzlerMax and Authorware, which are superior offerings for creating courses. Adobe was the first vendor to use templates to create courses. At the time, I hated it.

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History of the LMS

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Most of it came, via 3rd party providers, or what we referred to as “boutique shops” – think custom development (fee-based) that someone, company, government, institution, and so forth hired to create a course or courses. Could someone create a course at said company? Wanted people to buy your courses you created?

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

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Learn.com – First a content aggregator, then jumped into the LMS market, acquired by Taleo, who promised to invest heavily. If you ever wondered what down the tubes look like, look no further than Learn.com. Oh, how we missed you – Grovo followed the same approach as Learn.com, and how well did that turn out exactly?

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SCORM Test

Tony Karrer

Docent, SumTotal, Saba, Learn.com, etc.). All of these challenge the base assumption that I made which is - the LMS vendor really is not looking to work with people who are creating small amounts of courses that need to be tested on their LMS. Well worth looking at some of them. How many other LMS vendors have you spoken to?"

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Informal learning: the real deal. Free.

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

The next day, Wednesday April 21st at 2:00 pm Eastern, Human Capital Institute is hosting an unrehearsed discussion between Learn.com ’s Dave Wilkins and me on more advanced topics. Register here. The Learners Are Taking Over the Asylum.

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Latest Negative E-Learning Trends

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Folks who no nothing about e-learning, why it was created i.e. WBT, and equally no idea on why LMSs were developed/created in the first place. . If a person is willing to learn about the reasons WBT was created and its benefits (i.e. If a person is willing to learn about the reasons WBT was created and its benefits (i.e.

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Rapid eLearning Tools

Tony Karrer

As far as Atlantic Link, I believe that the eLearningGuild survey treated them as a Software Simulation Tool and that's part of the reason they didn't appear when I created the graphic above (2007). Some of them I could not get to run - which is always a bit scary. They also didn't have many users at the time.