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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. Why not just hire those folks away?

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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. Investors are looking for businesses that are (i) showing product and delivery leadership in a large and strategic segment of the market (i.e.,

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WORSTs E-Learning 2017 Awards

eLearning 24-7

For a powerhouse such as SAP to not really stun the world with an amazing learning product is hard to fathom, especially when you compare what Workday pushed out with their learning product (although you need Workday HCM as a requirement). I still hear folks who mention they are considering Oracle for learning.

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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). Sure folks.

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2019 Turkey Awards

eLearning 24-7

E-Learning Marketing Words – Stand on your Soapbox and Stop the Madness. Learning System. I spent the past year, seeing a lot of systems, products, tools; attended a few trade shows (that should be a future category), observed trends of this and that, and whalla, the list. . Category – Learning System.

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