E-Learning and all forms within are normally taken via your desktop computer and either hitting your company’s server with your browser or going to a hosted LMS vendor’s solution. Ipad, Entourage EDGE, Camangi WebStation, Freescale, Amtek, Asus,Open Peak’s Open Tablet, ExoPC Tablet, Fusion_Garage Joo Joo, Ubuntu Linux SmartQ, EAFT MagicTile. Operating System – Apple, Windows 07, Google Android, Linux. APIs, Open Source, HTML5. MORE

Systems that are only available as hosted on your own servers are starting to significantly decline. Equally of interest, are the increase in open source systems that offer for a fee, hosting on their own servers, rather than on yours. Now some of these systems will offer hosted on your own servers – if you demand it – but their goal is to have it “in the cloud” What about Extended Enterprise or academia/education? Open Source Systems. MORE

Ability to publish to.exe, web – this has always been around, but one vendor spins it with “Offline SCORM”, then you find out this means you can download the course in its SCORM wrapper and either have it as an.exe, use it on the web (without a LMS) or publish it to a LMS. Publish it to the web – which means you can stick it on any server, sans LMS and whalla MOOC city! Really robust, but they always have an issue with mobile OS specifically Apple. MORE

Course publishing choices include SCORM 1.2/2004, offline, and Web ( [link] ). Adapt : In 2014, three European companies (Learning Pool, Sponge UK, and Kineo) rolled out Adapt, a free open-source elearning HTML5 authoring tool that supports the development of responsive courses. It is server-based with a scrolling-based metaphor composed of pages, articles, blocks, and components. Apple launched Apple iBooks Author in 2012 to support its iBooks and iTunes platforms. MORE

SaaS or on your own servers – they can do both, but ideally prefer SaaS (they host it). Offline viewing. APIs – as in their (video learning platform itself) API is open. If your VLP is on your own servers most of the vendors will allow you to customize the CSS. active users) which can create confusion when trying to compare pricing apples to apples. One flat fee – Appears in open source platforms. Flashback. MORE

You work online via the servers of your vendor. In the content authoring tool market, the number of vendors who offered either mobile learning build capabilities within their tool or offered a stand-alone mobile course authoring tool is 28, of which two are free open source solutions. Online/Offline synch, Push capabilities – has to exist. Apple. Courselab – The best free open source product on the market. MORE

The launch of “Effectus”, an LMS based on the open source LMS Moodle, has simplified the lives of administrators and users. Since Effectus LMS is based on open-source LMS Moodle, it is highly configurable and flexible. The LMS server has a Global domain as a default feature. All users and courses you add to the LMS server are included automatically in this domain. Also, the LMS is also available as a Mobile App, to access the training with offline access. MORE

Offline Services. Apple. Only one type of product is sourced from different places and sold. Various types of products belonging to the same category are sourced and sold. Anything and everything sourced from anywhere in the world is sold. Online to Offline. The offering (product or service) is discovered online but delivered or implemented offline. Offline Services. Online to Offline. MORE