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APRIL 11, 2024
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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FEBRUARY 8, 2023
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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AUGUST 6, 2018
Who remembers NetG? NetG, was the evil empire of the days gone past – ok, in my mind. NetG, was the evil empire of the days gone past – ok, in my mind. Maybe it was a magical spell, but I am still stunned that a company who created video courses with bookmarking capabilities, and run well at 38.8K
eLearning 24-7
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Ditto on the 3rd party content, including one vendor who figured out how to create a video with bookmarks and chapters that streamed without issue on a 56K modem. Sadly, 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.
eLearning 24-7
APRIL 29, 2021
NetG, Element K, being just two. Oh, how we missed you – Grovo followed the same approach as Learn.com, and how well did that turn out exactly? Skillsoft – Dominated the course/content marketplace. Acquired numerous content publishers in the early to mid-2000s. Skillsoft). Little Lights of Brightness.
eLearning 24-7
JUNE 22, 2020
Where I learned from a senior sales exec at SumTotal that SumTotal sales people sold less than one percent of Percipio, and he never understood the reason that Percipio was created, because Degreed was the dominant leader in the LXP space. . Remember when I noted that some vendors saw them as the “evil empire?”
The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 12, 2005
Plus Saba + Centra creates a US$100M revenue company which is not too shabby! And of course back in August we had WebEx buying Intranets.com and SumTotal (created out of Docent + Click2Learn) buying PathLore as I discussed in this post. The Resulting Big Five: (forecasted annual revenue) SkillSoft $200M+ NETg $150M-200M?
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