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Saw Thomson Corp exists Learning Market on Learning Reflections. Not only have they just completed the sale of their NETg subsidiary to SkillSoft for $270 million , but they have also announced they are selling Higher Education assets of Thomson Learning to a couple of venture funds for $7.75
If you want to know more about Second Life, you can jump into the world and attend classes sponsored by NETg. I found this billboard as I was walking around looking for educational institutions and experiences. If you already know about Second Life, they are looking for instructors as this sign shows.
If you are still wondering what Secondlife is all about and how it is being used in corporate universities, then you must check out this video from Thomson Netg. I now remember why I've been a big advocate of interactive 3D learning for 10+ years. The New Media Center held an inworld tour of the ThomsonNetg campus this morning.
Oracle's ( Learning Management and PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Management but less so it's iLearning ) and SAP Enterprise Learning score better than I would have expected. Other data in the report points to particular barriers and the importance of particular features during Learning Management System (LMS) Selection.
This past week on LinkedIn I wrote about four trailblazers in the early days of the industry, learning systems – and what made them special (one has since hit speed bump), and four who trailblazed and then hit a major speed bump into, well, lost their way. Plateau Learning – I never understood the love for this system.
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Posted by Cammy Bean at 6:15 PM Labels: brands , e-learning industry 12comments: Sreya Dutta said. Now to answer your question on e-learning brands.theres this company called Brandon Hall Research. Its not really one beast at all.
full disclosure - As some of you may know, I joined Thomson NETg in January to run one of their strategic business units called Collaboration (essentially what was KnowledgeNet whom they acquired in late 2004). Very exciting (at least to me) but what I need is your feedback on a tool that Thomson NETg developed which I think is a hidden gem.
Now this deal makes more sense as Saba continues evolve beyond its Learning Management Software (LMS) roots (Saba recently bought THINQ) by rounding out its services offering. Personally I like its focus on 'on-demand learning' and its Services Oriented Architecture as I think generic content is a tough business to be in.
First off, some key points if you are new to e-learning or unfamiliar with the keywords people love to pass around in the industry. E-Learning 24/7. And CBT – Never was, never will be e-learning. Tags: e-learning AICC LCMS LMS SCORM. out there on the net for that. SCORM is not a certification process.
Sadly, one day I called, they were out of business, sold to the nefarious NetG – who likely placed them in a huge warehouse next to the remains of a famous pharaoh. But today, when I represent clients (yes, I take clients looking for a learning system), I always tell them to go the route of the use case. Enterprise.
Or you might be in Marketing, and you went with the ERP’s LMS and now are stuck learning it and then rolling it out. Exec – We are looking at either building our own learning platform or going with one that already exists. Plateau Learning. It was a VLP (Virtual Learning Platform). Nor is it a quick rollout.
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Bryan Austin, mLevel’s Vice President of Learning Innovation. I’ve known Byran for a while and he has always been passionate about games for learning and it was good to catch up with him. Learning in 2012, and subsequently joined mLevel last fall. He founded Game On!
Mark Oehlert is going through a metamorphasis, "noodling out" the idea of Learning as Art in his head and on his blog. Its closer to our experience in the NETg tour the other day. But I digress.let's get back to learning as art. Mark does some excellent noodling in his post on the topic. In Mark's words. ".the
long after the learning experience. Will we ever see this for Capella and University of Phoenix or Thompson NETg ? How can we 'brand' e-learning and bond with our learners, like say Notre Dame ? I started thinking about how people will wear university hats, t-shirts, sweaters, cheer for teams.
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. CBT was the “new” and exciting way to learn. It’s called online learning for a reason, because it is via the internet – online.
Content these days, well, it is an umbrella term to represent courses (micro too), videos, articles, materials, workbooks, other types of learning resources, podcasts and so forth. If one was to look at the e-learning industry (online learning), learning systems make up the biggest share of the space. Who remembers NetG?
like stand-alone web meetings) in learning with WebEx+intranets.com and PGS+Netspoke while the fragmented LMS sub-industry is getting so much needed consolidation with SumTotal+Pathlore (and remember that SumTotal is the March 2004 merger of Docent and Click2learn). Or as BusinessWeek recently put it - The Power of Us.
The point being you had content to consume and content that was a building block to your learning. In the e-learning world, specifically with LMSs/learning platforms, etc. – you need content for that learning block. Learning to Fly. E-Learning 24/7. Fast Forward. That content can come in many ways.
If you are new to e-learning or unfamiliar with the keywords people love to pass around in the industry. E-Learning 24/7. Tags: e-learning AICC LCMS LMS online training SCORM wbt web based training. I’ll exclude the technical components or specifics on SCORM and AICC – plenty of info. out there on the net for that.
Where SumTotal sales people never pushed Percipio as an add-on or addition to SumTotal Learning, even referring it an an “afterthought” as one senior sales executive once told me. Skillsoft – What went wrong from a learning perspective. SumTotal’s Learning’s home learner page? It is from Percipio.
Learning organizations today are dealing with a lot of change. LMS and learning platforms are evolving into video learning solutions; employees want consumer-like learning experiences; experts in all domains are creating videos, MOOCs and YouTube lessons.
Too many times I find that when talking about content, 3rd party content providers, content driven strategies from learning system vendors (which is quite hot) and marketplaces place more of a general approach to buying and pushing it. If your learning system provider offers content, take a look at it. The Grocery Store.
For many training managers and directors, the position of chief learning officer represents a career path. With the continuing need of organizations to think more strategically about how they use and deploy their human capital assets, executive-level learning appointments will continue to grow. Strategic Management.
I thought about this, as you can tell, and said to myself, okay, let’s write a post where the e-learning history and thus learning systems, authoring tools, and alike are intertwined with good and bad ideas. Acquisitions Any company that acquires another – in our case, a learning system- always thinks it is a great idea.
Where Corporate Learning Came From 3. Corporate Learning Today 5. Training is not the same as learning 6. Chief Learning Officers know training is not working 7. Real learning takes place elsewhere 8. Collaborative Learning 18. Where Corporate Learning Came From. Executive Summary 3. What’s the hurry?
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