ThirdForce PLC (our parent company that owns MindLeaders and ThirdForce) has announced their 2008 results. It's good news of strong profits, hard to find these days, in MindLeaders' first full year as part of the company. For those of you who dig a financial read, ThirdForce's blog has posted a summary, and there's a good bit of coverage of ThirdForce's progress in the news.
For some less financially-bent news, MindLeaders launched nearly 3 million courses in 2008. Our five most popular courses of the year were in (drum roll, please):
- Excel 2003 (twice!)
- Customer Service (also twice!)
- Time Management Fundamentals
- Basics of Business Math
- Computer Basics
To me, this list is a stark example of how much e-learning has changed, from a purely technical training medium to one that is being used by everyone, not just the techies, to learn software and business skills. E-learning has gone from being an end in itself ("Have to learn a computer topic? Use a computer to do it!") to a means, a tool that can be used towards almost any learning need.
Know of an interesting way that e-learning is being used? Please let us know in the comments!
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