Product – 54.2%. Product training reigns supreme. Not a real surprise here, when you consider that for many organizations, especially in certain industries, knowing the product inside and out, would be highly advisable.  Just yesterday, a product called Inkling Habitat launched a collaborative cloud based publishing platform (its actually in early adopter stage). For the past month, I have been conducting a survey on learning platforms and specifically learning management systems. . Survey. Lasted for one month. 36% were from 501 to 5,000 employees (16.6% MORE >>

am projecting the analytical part to significantly increase and to expand the capability to use solutions such as online storage (which a few vendors are offering) and product like Dropbox and CalenGoo. Because students are already using such products in their daily lives. Many in the education market are still in love with open source systems, such as Moodle. However, they often do not realize – until it is too late, that “free” isn’t really free because customization has to constantly exist, support, among other things. With that comes trends. Trend 1. MORE >>

In 2012 it has been all about collaborative/peer review with authoring products, and it still will be in 2013, but the avatars/actors with/without backgrounds are going to be in “fuego” Where can it go? believe that you can expect some type of voice capability with the actors/avatars as in the ability to either lip synch with the characters via audio tool/recording tool in the product will show up more in 2013. As a whole we like products that offer some form of personalization. For each of these items in e-learning. Authoring Tools. Actors & Avatars. HTML5. MORE >>

This is one you need to include in your toolbox, even if you are using paid products. Below is a list of course authoring tools – think “rapid e-learning authoring software&#.   The list is followed by free open source software that mimics and can even beat – IMO some of its more well known competitors – that you might use when building your WBT. All software below is free. Rapid E-Learning Course Software. Jelsim -  e-learning simulation software – create in java – can be used in corporate, semi target education. MOS Solo - Content authoring tool. Learning 24/7. MORE >>

I mean it is not like something is going to change in just a few weeks for any such product. Innovation – if the product doesn’t offer some innovative features, then they are stale. One product reminded me of bad shareware. Identifies the best of the best and now identifies vendors who offer a reader discount when you purchase their product. They were selected because the fit all my criteria above and frankly it is a very good product. FT - Really intriguing product. It pitches that it is a m-learning product because it supports HTML5. MORE >>