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eLearning Outsourcing to India will reach USD 603 million by 2012

Upside Learning

There have been several recent surveys to suggest the same (two of them are mentioned in the latter half of this post) and now, a ValueNotes report released in May 2009 specifically examines the status of the Indian eLearning outsourcing industry and predicts a high rate of growth until 2012, despite the current recession.

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eLearning Outsourcing: Why Consider It?

Upside Learning

With over 100 clients in 12 countries, Upside Learning has been offering offshore based eLearning outsourcing development services and solutions for 6 years. This study by Bersin Associates – Offshore eLearning: What Works , estimates savings between 20-40% by outsourcing to India. It could be even more in some cases.

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Hard Finding Good Developers / Designers

Tony Karrer

million new computer and IT related job opening between 2002 and 2012 Based on my personal experience in hiring people in Los Angeles and based on the complaints of my fellow members of the Los Angeles CTO Forum, this already has real impact on us. And off-shore is not always appropriate. Estimated 1.5

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eLearning Conferences 2011

Tony Karrer

The conference will not be held it 2011 and may be held in 2012. link] August 17-18, 2011 Conference on eLearning and IT Offshoring , New York, NY, USA. link] January 2012 January 4-7, 2012 Presidents Institute , sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Marco Island, Florida, USA. link] January ?,

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Closely related will be outsourced, especially off-shore content creation. Prediction #7 => Video Takes Off It's been amazing to see how the bandwidth in most organizations finally reaching a point where video can be pushed out as part of our solutions. It's also amazing how simple it is to capture video. It's a mess.

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LearnUpon – The best LMS in Australia

LearnUpon

LearnUpon had just set off on their journey to be the best Learning Management System (LMS) in Australia when I first spoke with the CEO, Brendan Noud. Mobile device penetration – Smartphone penetration has increased from 44% in 2012 and is forecasted to reach 70% in 2018. I’m sorry…you’re doing what?”.

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Your character strengths

Jay Cross

You can achieve more success by fully leveraging your strengths than by shoring up your weaknesses. The site has lots of interesting findings, for instance: Using one’s signature strengths in a new way increased happiness and decreased depression for 6 months (Gander, Proyer, Ruch, & Wyss, 2012). You’ll be happier.