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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

It’s a bad idea before it even goes to market. The wonderful thing about acquisitions is that very few people publicly know who is on the market, who isn’t (but is open for acquisitions), and what the financial status is – unless the company is public, which is an outlier in our space. I chose the groupings route.

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Enterprise Learning Systems – How I love thee?

eLearning 24-7

Today, very few vendors offer this depth. 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.  Vendors expect use cases. The challenge hits on what the vendor considers Enterprise to mean. And it worked well.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

CBT Prior to online learning known then as WBT, and then the latter term of e-learning (vendors today, use it to refer to content that is online), there was CBT. Netscape showed up, and dominated the market. You could say for everyone learner or just a group of learners, you could do this for every publisher that the vendor offered.

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Thompson Leaves Learning Market

Tony Karrer

Saw Thomson Corp exists Learning Market on Learning Reflections. Not only have they just completed the sale of their NETg subsidiary to SkillSoft for $270 million , but they have also announced they are selling Higher Education assets of Thomson Learning to a couple of venture funds for $7.75

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

I personally think what has hurt them in the greater market is the push by so many vendors (some of which are legit competitors) to refer to them as “traditional”, citing how long they have been around. NetG, Element K, being just two. Yes, the admin side, needs a revamp, but feature-wise, they are top tier.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

Nowadays thanks to the growth of Learning Engagement Platforms, whereas content is a requirement – an essential no less, LMS vendors are jumping head first into the content marketplace that is viewable by all clients (rather than pitching the content via the phone or other comm method). Who remembers NetG? Real interactive stuff.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: eLearning Brand Name Recognition?

Learning Visions

Clearly says something about the state of the fragmented eLearning market -- mostly small shops providing services or companies doing it in-house using all of the aforementioned tools. We review 150 developers in our custom content knowledge base and identified 550 vendors that produce custom courseware. No service companies.