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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Someone at LTG should score a raise for going up to their boss or being the boss and saying let’s look at buying Rustici. However, ND never hit its stride and had the potential to do so – the very first vendor, whereas you could use part of it via a jump drive (true). I never tested it, but they noted it. Not Articulate.

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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. I found that if people knew the trainer was an employee, the scores tended to be higher – due to the fear that the person would be fired if the scores were low.

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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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LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers

Tony Karrer

These are being reported out of the larger eLearningGuild population and I would claim that they are likely more accurate than survey research that goes through the vendors themselves. Several of the LMS vendors appear more than once, such as Oracle. 17 2007 - when their satisfaction score is being reported so low.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Venture capitalists funded scores of eLearning companies, most of which disappeared in the dot-com crash a few years later. Remember Digital Think, SmartForce, Pensare, NETg, KnowledgeNet, UNext, Docent, One Touch, Centra, InterWise, and their brethren? Vendors churned out page-turners and shovelware. eLearning was born.