eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Despite overall consumer demand (not just within e-learning) for tablets, and numbers showing that tablets are outselling notebooks, e-learning vendors as whole are sitting back and waiting. APIs of various social sites with Linkedin growing at a quick pace. Standards are Facebook and Twitter.

CD-ROM 85

CD-ROM vendor e-learning vendor Offline 85

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Features include: Video box option – rather than just having “text” listings for courses, clients can have video clips with a box so that the end user can click the video box, see the clip and then after selecting the course, go into the video course. Built-in video and chat. SCORM/AICC.

Compliance Training 99

Compliance Training LMS SCORM Offline 99

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Kinect technology and gesture free will equally make an appearance in 2012. I am projecting that the number of vendors who enter this space to start slow, but gain steam – at least with some aspect, by the end of 2012. Forecast: Continued growth, especially with small to mid size vendors. See you back in 2012.

Blended Learning 94

Blended Learning Authoring Tools Augmented Reality vendor 94

eLearning 24-7

JULY 23, 2012

For those who charge with storage – storage includes all courses, files – including your audio, video, images and documents. Thus if you have a lot of video, expect that 2GB of storage to get whacked fast, especially with more than 10 courses. video tutorials (using Camtasia, BlueBerry, DemoCreator, etc.).

Low Cost 80

Low Cost Cost LMS Server 80

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Paying extra for something they call the “Mercury Module” – features: Contests, quick polls, news stories, banners/videos (called banners) so that you can advertise or promote new courses, events on the home page. 7 eLogic Learning. New video component (coming soon!). At the end of 2012, was #4, now it is #6.

SharePoint 95

SharePoint LMS vendor iPad 95

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I’m not saying that e-learning vendors who follow the “trial” and give us your credit card mantra are following this approach nor are they doing so in a nefarious way, I’m just giving you some insight in how companies that use this approach, see value in it.

RFP 68

RFP Compliance Training Association Learning Management System vendor 68

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Vendors were saying, lets “wait on those&# or “our customers are not requesting them, so we are holding off&#. Social learning? If they were doing it, Facebook like page, a crummy blog that looks nothing like a real blog, a Twitter like feed, maybe RSS, text chat and YouTube functions and upload/download angle.

vendor 69

vendor Flash to HTML5 Conversion Mashups iPad 69