The Learning Dispatch

MARCH 20, 2017

Paciello’s Ian Pouncey, when describing how Paciello helped Skillsoft make Skillsoft’s online courses accessible, described a similar process, using the Agile software development tool “ definition of done ” to define success criteria. Image credit: © Can Stock Photo / destina. Level AA success criteria noted above.

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The Learning Dispatch

MARCH 20, 2017

Paciello’s Ian Pouncey, when describing how Paciello helped Skillsoft make Skillsoft’s online courses accessible, described a similar process, using the Agile software development tool “ definition of done ” to define success criteria. Image credit: © Can Stock Photo / destina. Level AA success criteria noted above.

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eLearning 24-7

JULY 25, 2014

Created by a 3rd party provider – a Skillsoft or Wiley for example. Static – Lots of text and usually some stock images, maybe some java – popups if you are really lucky. The vendor – Skillsoft. That content can come in many ways. Created by you or someone in the workplace. Interactive and Engaging.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 16, 2011

The buzz on Friday was Skillsoft’s acquisition of Element K. Some of us speculated that perhaps the acquisition came about to shut up Element K, whose attack ads were irritating Skillsoft mightily: At a lunch sponsored by Knowledge Advisors, David Vance gave an overview of Talent Development Reporting Principles.

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Skillsoft

JANUARY 21, 2016

It's time to sit down and take stock of what’s occurred in the learning and development industry in the EMEA region in 2015 and talk about 2016 trends.

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The Learning Circuits

OCTOBER 12, 2005

The Resulting Big Five: (forecasted annual revenue) SkillSoft $200M+ NETg $150M-200M? BlackBoard $150M+ Saba $100M+ SumTotal $100M * strangely none of the investors like any of these deals as the stocks of the related companies have all dropped when they have announced their news.

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The Learning Circuits

AUGUST 3, 2005

First, on Monday, WebEx buys intranets.com for $45M in cash ( details ) then today SumTotal buys Pathlore for $29M in cash ( details ) and $19M in stock. And then I hear that back on July 27 Premiere Global Services announced that it was buying Netspoke for $23.2M in cash ( details ). A LMS company buys another LMS company.

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