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5 E-Learning Forecasts for 2012

eLearning 24-7

Product training becomes real – they interact, engage and see it in real time, rather than a static experience. These vendors, I believe will consist of: Vendors who offer an authoring tool or game sim and will develop additional product lines tied to Augmented Reality. Brainstorming? Remember those wonderful sessions.

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Special Post – Why the Big Four are not on my latest Top 10 LMS List

eLearning 24-7

Since my Top 10 list of LMS vendors has been posted online, I have received quite a bit of e-mail wondering why the biggest names: Cornerstone On Demand, Saba, SumTotal and SuccessFactors are not on the list. There is a wide assumption that if a product sells a lot it means that it is better than anyone else. 2012 Lists.

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#10 to #1 LMSs of 2012

eLearning 24-7

Their product is more geared towards a human capital management system, especially with the BizX Suite. If this is something you are looking for – i.e. a HCM, then they are the ones to go with – over Cornerstone, Oracle-Taleo, SumTotal and alike. What can you say, this is a phenomenal product. 6 SuccessFactors.

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ASTD Webcast On New Mobile Learning Research

Upside Learning

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that we recently supported ASTD research on Mobile Learning , a report around that was released in May 2012. The speakers at the webinar were Kevin Oakes (founder & CEO of i4CP, earlier founder of Click2Learn which was merged with Docent to form SumTotal) and John Polaschek (Sr.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

When I did an analysis back in 2012 for example, I had a list of 429 learning system vendors (at that time, I listed them as LMS). SumTotal – Today? Owned by SumTotal – who ruined it, because by then it was GeoLearning Maestro (not that great). SumTotal called it SumTotal Maestro. Sure folks.

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Bob Little – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

It comprises stimulating discussions with industry experts and product evangelists on emerging trends in the learning landscape. For example, there was a decline in overall training expenditure in the UK from a high point, in 2008, of £5.157bn (US$ 7.7bn) to £5.076bn (US$7.6bn) in 2009, with a slow recovery to £5.100bn (US$7.65bn) in 2012.

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Bridge over troubled authoring tool waters

eLearning 24-7

Why are some vendors treating you as a spy or something sinister when you just want to try out the product? You would think that with over 140 authoring tools on the market, vendors would want you to try out their product before dropping any type of cash. As of mid 2012, 58 million people used Mac OS as their primary OS.