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Interview with PeakSpan Capital, A Growth Equity Firm

eLearning 24-7

They are the ones that many vendors still today, hear from, to gauge whether or not said vendor is interested in being acquired or receiving funding. First, I would look at their LinkedIn headcount, and, in particular, sales headcount to build a directional sense for the size or scale of a vendor (i.e.,

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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. Heck, I was in a doctorate program, whereas the majority of the ‘courses’ was via Lotus Notes, the other was ILT. WBT (Web-Based Training). It was a university.

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The Augmented LMS: New Life for Talent Management Learning?

Talented Learning

At that time, interest in training customers, channel partners and others “outside the firewall” was on the rise, but many organizations either could not or would not use their internal employee-focused LMS to support external learning programs. You may recall that almost a decade ago, an acquisition wave took the LMS world by storm.

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Harnessing Hyperconnectivity

CLO Magazine

Some are going through a steep learning curve early in their role, others may have plateaued and be looking for tips and techniques, and others simply want to reinvent themselves. Every employee in your company (from sales person to service worker to senior executive) has a learning curve for their job. Our main challenge is design.

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Veterans Affairs Learning University at Corporate University Week

Learning Visions

Veterans Affairs Learning University (VALU) started in 2008ish… Support over 20,000 Veterans Strengthen the way we serve veterans by employing more veterans – Recruit, Retain, Reintegrate our Veterans VA for Vets program: goal is 40% Veterans working within VA Diverse mission (still serving two family members from the Civil War!)

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User Friendly or Hype?

eLearning 24-7

If I am a potential customer, I would expect nothing less to come out of the vendor’s mouth on their product and user friendliness. Some vendors who have failed to deliver, in my opinion, a user friendly system, due to front end or back end (admin side), or sometimes both. Plateau Talent Management System. Melon Lite LMS.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

The role of the learning leader is shifting from being a program manager to a solution architect. Elliott Masie Learners as designers. Training department staffing will grow by a modest 2%. Selective outsourcing continues to grow while comprehensive outsourcing will become less popular. Speed will become the new mantra for training.