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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

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). Adobe was the first vendor to use templates to create courses. For me, GO1’s track record is mixed regarding buys. 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. You could say for everyone learner or just a group of learners, you could do this for every publisher that the vendor offered. WBT (Web-Based Training). It was flawed.

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Skillsoft – An Analyst Perspective

eLearning 24-7

A behemoth, impressive and at the same time, seen in a “Evil Empire” perspective among other vendors in the mid 2000s. This is also about a vendor who lost their way. A vendor who made not only poor business decisions with the likes of Percipio, but also with the monumental blunder of acquiring SumTotal. .

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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. They can be used to see how LMS vendors stack up against particular features.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Remember Digital Think, SmartForce, Pensare, NETg, KnowledgeNet, UNext, Docent, One Touch, Centra, InterWise, and their brethren? Vendors churned out page-turners and shovelware. In the late 1990s, the web changed everything. eLearning was born. Some companies bought employees PCs so they could learn at home, on their own time.