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Why eLearning Development Ratios Can be Hazardous to Your Career.

Dashe & Thomson

So, what to do when a “boutique vendor” (our client’s label for us) gives you a number that sounds outrageously high? The client engaged a vendor with development resources in India. How did the offshore vendor come up with such an astoundingly high estimate? Simple: Off-shore it! At this point,we figured we were toast.

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Why eLearning Development Ratios Can be Hazardous to Your Career

Dashe & Thomson

So, what to do when a “boutique vendor” (our client’s label for us) gives you a number that sounds outrageously high? The client engaged a vendor with development resources in India. How did the offshore vendor come up with such an astoundingly high estimate? Simple: Off-shore it! At this point,we figured we were toast.

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Why a Single Codebase Should Be at the Top of Your Learning Management System Requirements List

Absorb LMS

The bread was delicious. Some software vendors agree to these custom-feature requests and create separate versions of the software for specific clients. Early last Saturday morning, Isabelle awoke with a breakfast craving for a couple of slices of raisin bread on which to slather some jam. This is a bad idea.

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Top 10 Learning Systems 2024

eLearning 24-7

A vendor can refer to themselves as “whatever works for them” angle. It’s an employee development platform (the vendor refers to itself as that), but I see it more as a talent development platform. Some of the vendor’s analyses will be shorter than the others. Best learning system the coolest mascot?

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e-learning fails to walk the talk?

From the Coleface

I like the delicious irony that approximately half the coaches who thought supervision was a good idea had failed to get round to it…clearly some barriers that they need coaching around. Vendor training. But there’s an even more startling finding from the e-learning guild about e-learning practitioners.

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An Impromptu #lrnchat: Monday Morning Blues All Gone!

ID Reflections

Organized spontaneous on point educational delicious. It was triggered by a question posed by @marciamarcia : In your opinion, what's the problem social media for learning solves? Please weigh in! And as she commented 90 minutes later: 168 unique responses (not including mine) in 90 minutes. the power of collective knowledge 2.

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Top 10 LXPs for 2020

eLearning 24-7

Some are delicious and inviting. What I really like is that they aren’t trying to be focused solely on the large enterprise space, which too many vendors across the industry see as the “mighty” Rather small biz (5-500), small enterprise (501-999), Enterprise (1,000-10,000) are their strong spots. . Metrics are good.

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