eLearning 24-7

MAY 2, 2011

Each one is available today on the Internet for free and these types of products are gaining mass in the global market. The growing number of businesses leaving Microsoft Outlook to Internet e-mail is amazing. Two years ago, this just wasn’t happening, but as with anything the market is changing. Works even when offline.

Open Source 77

Open Source e-learning vendor VOIP vendor 77

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Unlimited users – a rarity in today’s market. Support of the iPad, thus mobile learning. Tin Can compliment – but no native app and no online/offline synch. Tin Can API with online/offline synchronization – AWESOME! M-Learning offers online/offline synchronization. What are those?

SharePoint 95

SharePoint LMS vendor iPad 95

CommLab India

MAY 4, 2017

Yes, it does, but your team will benefit more from a cloud-based tool where they can create responsive design projects and exchange files (collaboration), which is simply not possible with the offline tool Lectora Inspire. . When you’re done, publish your courses to any learning management system (LMS), such as Moodle.

Lectora 44

Lectora Online Tools LMS 44

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 24, 2014

from their “market” is outrageous. I have those every weekend, so why as an adult learner do I want it as a benefit to learning? Another one on the rise for LMS vendors and honestly, e-learning vendors as a whole. Speaking of which, Trend 3 Online/Offline synch.

Trends 81

Trends LMS vendor Open Source 81

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 12, 2012

TinCan with online/offline synch. surveys/assessments, e-commerce, transcripts, ad-hoc reporting and the other standards in the industry (90/10). One of the top systems for the education market. M-learning support, assignment grader can be offline and then re-synched online, but courses can not be online/offline.

Compliance Training 99

Compliance Training LMS SCORM Offline 99

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 11, 2013

Because the one stop shops are now appearing in learning management systems, for the better. If you are taking a deep look around the LMS market you may be hearing a new buzz word, “ecosystem” Some LMS vendors have used the term in the past because they themselves saw their platform as a one stop shop. The new LMS.

LMS 78

LMS Blended Learning vendor Learning Management System 78

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 11, 2012

A native app that enables you view the courses on your mobile device with online/offline synch. Even if the product is a desktop product all you need to do is upload the course to your own web server, use the vendor’s web server or via a LMS. Online/Offline synch. Your mobile web browser. Talent/Performance Management.

Pipes 71

Pipes vendor Offline iPad 71

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I live it, perhaps too much, yet the other day I came across a learning blog informing its readers that in order for the LMS to survive: Must become modular. Funny thing is that it the LMS market has been doing that for more than a decade. E-Commerce. Excluding the above, there are vendors out there who charge extra for.

LMS 74

LMS vendor Compliance Training Centra 74

eLearning 24-7

MAY 5, 2013

E xpertus One ($$$-$$$$)- Still the best multi-tenant platform in the market. The system as a whole is quite robust including digital signatures, online/offline synch and a very nice UI. E-Learning 24/7. For me, I define company size by: 500 or less employees: SB. 501 to 1,500: SMB. 1,501 to 5,000: MB.

Enterprise 85

Enterprise Association Learning Management System LMS SAP 85

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Go to any graduate program on market research and they will tell you that the maximum should be one page (10 questions) to retain people’s attention span to complete a survey. A double bonus: 50% of those who made up the 12% of “no” were e-learning vendors. Short and Sweet. 48% very often/often.

Mobile 74

Mobile Video Association Learning Management System Authoring Tools 74

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 23, 2012

Twice a year I will be providing some trends that I am seeing in the e-learning market. This one trend really is an irritation to me, because the term “training” is showing up rather than “learning”, which is the standard term as it relates to online learning (see it already?). Bottom Line.

Trends 80

Trends vendor Outsource LMS 80

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

As noted earlier in this post, the whole “compliance” driven features is striking the market at a fervor pace. While it is true that regulatory feature sets are useful – it totally depends on who are your target markets/vertical niches. e-readers) will outsell PCs by 2015, with an estimated 500 million units a year.

Association Learning Management System 77

Association Learning Management System LMS Association LMS Blended Learning 77

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The biggest problem facing the industry in the past few years are the lack of course authoring tools for e-learning developers and instructional designers. Sure, you can use the extensive list of tools on the market, but for those who want real power and complexity ala from the days of Authorware, pickings are slim.

eLearning Tools 85

eLearning Tools Authoring Compliance Training Flash to HTML5 Conversion 85

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 24, 2011

A couple of vendors have added HRIS modules. It is interesting to note, that many of the vendors are targeting the SMB space, especially the small size (less than 500 employees) market. I expect to see over 80% of the market go SaaS by the end of 2012. What’s not to love about the EE market? Prediction.

News 73

News Authoring Tools vendor Rapid Intake 73

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 7, 2013

They are also big in the market – people are buying them. 2013 - LMSs are not the only learning system in town. The new kids of the block (please no jokes here) are Video Learning Platforms. Video in e-learning means something quite different than video in its usual term. Offline viewing. E-commerce.

Platform 88

Platform Video vendor Player 88

eLearning 24-7

MAY 11, 2012

Giving out books to attendees after they listened to the the vendors’ sales pitch. The problem with that angle – no mention of the vendor, thus its poor marketing. I got a book and can’t recall the vendor who gave it to me. Blackboard Learn for Sales – Let’s talk about these guys in particular.

ASTD 82

ASTD ILT vendor Blackboard 82

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

So, why allow it to happen with your potential LMS vendor. The market is saturated with vendors, there are a lot of potential customers and I recognize that they want to take a deep look into my solution, try and test it out. It appears in the SAAS model with some small dog LMS vendors. Your market share is not endless.

vendor 66

vendor LMS Skype Social Media 66

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

At one time BlueVolt was just a spark, a system among many other systems in the market. Online/Offline synch – not yet live, coming later this Summer – that is with native app for iOS – not everyone system is involved in the early stages of TinCan (the next evolution of SCORM) – Blue Volt is however.

Productivity 71

Productivity Product Association Learning Management System Compliance Training 71

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 10, 2011

I mean, virtually all new tablets hitting the market these days, has a camera and a vid/web cam. This is why, only 4 vendors offer an iPad or iPhone app for download. iPad/iPad 2 Vendors. If you are a LMS vendor – business, unless your target market is education/academia – then education. Bottom Line.

iPad 77

iPad iPhone vendor iTunes 77

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Enables people to work offline without net connection then when back online, re-synchs with SaaS platform or system. One vendor told me they will incorporate it when it becomes certified – uh systems and authoring tools can be certified not a standard. But what I’m seeing in the market for 2013, doesn’t scare me.

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 105

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Compliance Training LMS vendor 105

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Continues to be a growth market. The Big Dog vendors jumped in two years ago, with some components and have now vastly expanded. Smaller size vendors are now entering the foray. Talent Management only systems that have existed in the market for years. A huge key is digital marketing. Talent Management. M-Commerce.

Blended Learning 95

Blended Learning Authoring Tools Augmented Reality vendor 95

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 1, 2012

I love Questionmark, its a wonderful product and it can use a “connector” to integrate into your learning platform or system. However, times are continuing to change in regards to the overall standalone quiz/assessment tools market. The standalone market for these seems to no longer make sense. Bottom Line.

Authoring Tools 71

Authoring Tools News Association Learning Management System LMS 71

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 4, 2012

Now if you want to download it for offline viewing on an iPad series device: To do so, you (whomever that may be) allow your learners to download the course. Then you have to click another link within the article to learn how do it. Desktop – The e-learning market is moving to SaaS – you aren’t.

Articulate 75

Articulate Productivity Product Flash to HTML5 Conversion 75

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

These are the voyages of mobile learning. To boldly go where no e-learning vendor has gone before, specifically LMS vendors who are now starting to get it. . To, ah forget it you now the rest, but what you may not know is the latest on the mobile learning front. Mobile Devices with marketing.

Mobile 40

Mobile vendor Mobile Learning xapi 40

eLearning 24-7

JULY 9, 2012

Mobile learning – it might surprise you to know that 75-80% of all systems in the space, currently do not offer any type of mobile learning, the number goes up even higher for online/offline synch. Congrats, you are probably looking at less than 10 (based on my LMS directory which contains 475 vendors).

LMS 72

LMS vendor Cornerstone OnDemand Virtual Classroom 72

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 4, 2013

If your system’s target markets or audience are massive users of classroom management, then having some type of facilities management with resources makes sense, but I know plenty of end users that couldn’t care less. . E-Learning 24/7. Optional Power to Success. Works with tablets including Apple. Power to Success.

LMS 76

LMS Calendar WebEx e-learning vendor 76

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 23, 2013

LCMS – Learning Content Management System – going the way of the dodo bird. M-Learning- Mobile Learning. It does not mean that the system comes with a native app nor offers online/offline synchronization. E-Learning – Online Learning.

LMS 77

LMS vendor RFP Consulting 77

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 25, 2010

And for people who think that tablets are not going to be a big influencer in the market, lets clear that up, quickly. While 99% of the public, believes that the Ipad is the only player in the market, it is not. Want to learn Spanish with end users talking into the course and hearing it back with crystal clarity – no problem.

Compliance Training 70

Compliance Training Flash to HTML5 Conversion iPad LCMS 70

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Vendors who added innovative features including text to speech (way to go SoftChalk), to true HTML5 support (Claro, Cm-Studio, Rapid Intake, Toolbook and sort of HTML5 output – Lectora) to image editors, SDK kits, gaming sims and Sony PSP devices. The demos can be up to five minutes and cannot contain any sales or marketing pitch.

vendor 68

vendor Authoring Tools STT Trainer Mac 68