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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. Plateau Learning – I never understood the love for this system.

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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. Cornerstone Track Record for Learning System Acquisitions Mixed.

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WORSTs E-Learning 2017 Awards

eLearning 24-7

One competitor purchased a VLP as a key component, SAP purchased SuccessFactors, a recruiting system initially turned HCM, who had acquired Plateau, a strong but awful UI/UX LMS. SuccessFactors constantly stated they would invest heavily into Plateau and initially, vast improvement was to be found. And the winner is.

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Interview with PeakSpan Capital, A Growth Equity Firm

eLearning 24-7

From the learning system and learning technology standpoint (and yes, I see a difference) the PE or VC firm is the one to go to when you seek capital or seek to be acquired. Q: I’m a learning system or learning technology vendor and I want to raise capital. However, that isn’t the case all the time is it?

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Harnessing Hyperconnectivity

CLO Magazine

This year the corporate learning market is going through explosive change: microlearning and adaptive learning systems have arrived, there’s an explosion of interest in learning experience platforms and consumer-like learning environments, and video, audio and small chunks of relevant content are available everywhere.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

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. When I did an analysis back in 2012 for example, I had a list of 429 learning system vendors (at that time, I listed them as LMS).

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What I like

eLearning 24-7

Learning Systems – I like this, but that? I like learning system vendors who skill map ahead of time to any off-the shelf content/courses they sell or come with the system. I like learning system vendors who offer Managed Services. Please tell me why someone would want this system?

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