ACS Must Prove E-Learning Execution as It Acquires Intellinex (Gartner)

ACS gains a hosted e-learning suite with the purchase of e-learning service provider Intellinex. Without the proper focus and marketing by new parent ACS, the deal could reduce Intellinex's status as an e-learning player.

E-Training (Line56)

Elluminate explains the proposition; a number of big names, including Apple, are aboard

The utility of face-to-face training is shrinking. The biggest reason is cost. Fuel prices aren't going down anytime soon, and the training function is big on travel. "When our customers focused on classroom training, either trainees would fly into a central facility or trainers would fly all over creation to deliver personal classes," says Rajeev Arora, VP of Marketing for niche e-learning specialist Elluminate.

That means racking up big travel bills as well as losing employee productivity. That's because when people are in a central location being trained, they aren't doing their jobs. Of course, those aren't the only limitations of traditional on-site training. There are also the problems of reuse and on demand access to content.

Elluminate's solution to the problem is to deliver an online training platform. That doesn't mean courseware; unlike an eCornell, for example, Elluminate isn't in the business of supplying learning content and pedagogical models. Elluminate is focused, rather, on the means of delivery of existing training content.

The E-Learning Experience (Line56)

Minnesota School of Business explains what's compelling about e-learning; simulations score big

Building on our resolution to make this the summer of e-learning, we recently spoke to the Minnesota School of Business (MSB) about their use of software for learning in the classroom and in the workplace.

One of the most interesting moments in our discussion with Dr. Andrea Olson, Research and Development Director at MSB, was when she used the term "blended experience" to refer to her overall vision of e-learning. That model, which means combining online and real-world experience in the broadest possible delivery scheme and pedagogic context, is also something to which eCornell CEO Chris Proulx referred in our kickoff conversation with him.

Video Learning (Line56)

Why video can save money for, and add interest to, classroom environments; the case of Lamar University

Blended E-Learning (Line56)

eCornell brings together traditional and Internet-age models of learning to deliver a new proposition; a neglected but high-value neighborhood of e-learning

Sharpening Performance (Line56)

How eCornell works with Air Products to keep knowledge long and innovation strong; reiterating the benefits of online learning

E-Learning: Let's Get Going (Line56)

We prepare to make a sustained and detailed case for a long neglected application area; let's make this the summer of e-learning

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