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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. The system itself for my audience? I never gave them one – after I bought my first system. It’s never the Fish Market of San Jose. 

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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. That didn’t happen.

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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. It’s a bad idea before it even goes to market. I chose the groupings route. Not Articulate.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

Netscape showed up, and dominated the market. They weren’t the first person who said that to me, it is very common to hear it from other learning system execs, CEOs even, founders too, salespeople equally so. Who led the market? Back to the original days, who did well Plateau Learning – Today?

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

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. If one was to look at the e-learning industry (online learning), learning systems make up the biggest share of the space.

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LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers

Tony Karrer

However, I would be concerned if I was a starter LMS vendor because Moodle is going to cause you grief in the bottom of the market. Note: this represents a lot of the market whether they admit it or not. As these systems catch up, this will make the market really hard for Saba and SumTotal. SAP Learning Solution SAP 10 5.97

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