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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

Heck, I was in a doctorate program, whereas the majority of the ‘courses’ was via Lotus Notes, the other was ILT. In 2000, I built my own LMS for a company, and was hired to create an e-learning program for customer training, as well as run a training division with ILT still in play (blended). NetG ruined them).

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

Who remembers NetG? NetG, was the evil empire of the days gone past – ok, in my mind. speed with no latency issues would be acquired by NetG and shoved into the Raiders of the Ark storage facility, next to the ark itself. Back in the day, there were some big names out there. Real interactive stuff. But Office ruled. .

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CLO Competencies: The Path for Future Learning Leaders

CLO Magazine

This includes both external (company products and services) and internal (projects, campaigns, programs) sales and marketing activities. Thus, they need to have experience launching major internal or external sales campaigns and understand the critical relationship between a campaign’s success and an effective marketing program.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: eLearning Brand Name Recognition?

Learning Visions

I used to pitch up against some of the "big guys" -- NetG, SkillSoft -- who do some custom development, but the clients would choose our small shop because we provided better customer service. Denise has a really good point about the high-touch quality of the custom development houses, which is so essential in this biz.

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A Conversation with Bryan Austin of mLevel

Kapp Notes

Bryan has had a distinguished career in corporate Learning & Development, including leadership roles with Skillsoft, Kaplan, AchieveGlobal and NETg. Austin: Corporate learning functions are often stretched too thin by the business’ increasing demand for learning programs coupled with the increasing pace of change. mLevel Studio.

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The Growing Role of Microlearning

CLO Magazine

How can we blend all the content we have into meaningful programs that stick? We built long programs with fancy media and interactivities designed to mimic a multiday instructor-led course. All this has created a complex problem: How do learning leaders build and curate all the content employees need?

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Training technology focused on the person, not the group: PLATO introduced computer-based training; Stanford pioneered instructional television; teaching machines and programmed instruction enjoyed brief popularity. Training became the first area to get the axe when times were tough and many sound programs were gutted.