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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

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. NetG ruined them). Is Kirkpatrick still in play? Many folks running training and L&D, also saw the Five straight down the page. Next, Taleo bought them.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Don Kirkpatrick proposed a model for measuring the outcomes of training. 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?