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On June 22, 2000, I published "A Hitchhiker's Guide to Learning Portals" at this site. The purpose of this article was to examine six popular learning portals from the consumer's point of view.
As you may recall, a learning portal is gateway to a collection of off-the-shelf courses from different vendors. Individual learners can sign up, pay for and take a variety of courses at a single site. Recently, I went back to the same sites with two questions in mind: I found that these sites survived the wave of dot-com failures. Some of them changed from a learning portal to a learning application service provider (ASP). The learning ASP hosts computer-based training courses for organizations that prefer not to buy, implement and maintain a system themselves. (This would be a good time to read my article "Learning Portal or ASP: What's the Difference?" because I'm going to discuss both of them in this article.) Let's take a look at each one. Click2Learn.com http://www.click2learn.com Click2Learn now focuses on the corporate buyer and offers an e-learning platform that integrates content development, delivery, and management solutions. The key components of the e-learning platform are: In addition, Click2Learn offers product training for ToolBook Instructor, Ingenium, ToolBook Assistant as well as a course on e-Learning Design. Qualified corporate buyers can obtain a free trial CD of Ingenium and Toolbook through a sales representative. Click2Learn.com just launched a next-generation e-learning platform (nicknamed Aspen) that delivers a complete e-learning platform with e-learning standards (AIC, SCORM, LRN) across all components. The company also offers Professional Services (analysis and planning, custom content development, application and evaluation) and Placement Services that provides e-Learning contractors on a contract or permanent basis. Is Click2Learn still a learning portal? Not according to my definition. HeadLight.com Headlight.com is no longer in business. According to E-Learning Research News and Notes from brandon-hall.com, "Headlight.com is turning out the lights. CyberU will provide Headlight's former customers with continued service." CyberU.com http://www.training.cyberu.com CyberU claims to be the leading provider of e-learning for individuals and small businesses. It offers a Small Business Training Center for continuing online education needs in the following disciplines:
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