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Why eLearning Development Ratios Can be Hazardous to Your Career.

Dashe & Thomson

After much wrangling, we came up with a number that knocked our client off his chair. Simple: Off-shore it! Our off-shore competitor, whose development rate we later learned an thrifty-sounding $20/hour, came in with a surprising bid: $2 million. Without getting too specific, it was over $500,000.

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Why eLearning Development Ratios Can be Hazardous to Your Career

Dashe & Thomson

After much wrangling, we came up with a number that knocked our client off his chair. Simple: Off-shore it! Our off-shore competitor, whose development rate we later learned an thrifty-sounding $20/hour, came in with a surprising bid: $2 million. Without getting too specific, it was over $500,000.

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eLearning Outsourcing to India will reach USD 603 million by 2012

Upside Learning

The ValueNotes report, eLearning Outsourcing 2009: Advantage India , reveals that: “Revenues from the Indian e-learning offshoring industry stand at approximately USD 341 million at the end of calendar year 2008. ValueNotes estimates the market size to touch $603 million by the end of calendar year 2012.&#.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

In the Fall of 2010, I did a series on Text-to-Speech in eLearning. Closely related will be outsourced, especially off-shore content creation. Prediction #7 => Video Takes Off It's been amazing to see how the bandwidth in most organizations finally reaching a point where video can be pushed out as part of our solutions.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

Folksonomy (11) Knowledge (233) Off-shore (7) Leadership (44) Creative Commons (16) Back when we still had hope that folksonomy (tagging) would make sense of the flood of content. 2006 2010 2007 Does the associated years for SharePoint suggest it's a technology for the future? Seems so long ago. :) How about 2005 ?

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4 Implications of Microsoft’s Acquisition of LinkedIn

CommLab India

LinkedIn could help shore Microsoft’s sagging mobile initiatives. Microsoft acquired Nokia to increase its “mobile footprint”, but the decision to acquire the Finnish mobile maker ended in a disaster – the Redmond-based software giant had to write off nearly 7.6 billion USD in impairment charges.

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Year 11 student awarded coveted ICAS medal

Janison

Janison is an innovator and leader in digital learning, pioneering projects in Australia such as the first, state-wide, digital science assessment in 2010 and digitising NAPLAN for the Australian Government to enable its release to students across the country in 2018.”. First Half FY18 (H1 FY18) Trading Update.