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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

This past week on LinkedIn I wrote about four trailblazers in the early days of the industry, learning systems – and what made them special (one has since hit speed bump), and four who trailblazed and then hit a major speed bump into, well, lost their way. NetG, Element K, being just two. Skillsoft). Onto the Show.

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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. Groupings seem like a good idea but feel free to say this is a bad idea, and I’m okay with that.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

Oh, and access wasn’t free. If a customer purchased your courses (regardless of if free or not), you had the data to see where they were going, which aided in whether you needed to create more courses, similar subject, assuming multiples were going to the same, or not. NetG ruined them). Not as many as today mind you.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

You can find free content all over the internet and you can purchase 3rd party content from a content provider. And not only do they provide the “course marketplace or content marketplace”, but they are adding content for free, to when you buy the LMS or other type of learning system. Who remembers NetG?

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Skillsoft – An Analyst Perspective

eLearning 24-7

Not uncommon with some companies that own two different learning system brands if you will, but in this case, it seemed that SumTotal was the driver and Skillsoft the secondary. . Once you buy the content, Skillsoft will give you Percipio for free. That’s it. Could you as a client purchase Percipio as the standalone?

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LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers

Tony Karrer

It's free which improves satisfaction. If nothing else, it causes the perception that there's a free competitor. SAP Learning Solution SAP 10 5.97 Virtual Learning System Plateau Systems, LTD 1 5.90 Training PartnerTM Learning. GeoMetrix Data Systems Inc. IBM Lotus Learning Manag.

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