eLearning 24-7

JUNE 27, 2024

Learning Systems. Would you select an LMS? Perhaps a learning platform that calls themselves whatever, has some functionality or more of an LMS, but won’t refer to them as that. in the system itself, saving you financial resources, while leveraging functionality, data and multi-tenant capabilities?

Association Learning Management System 80

Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS Metrics 80

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 12, 2021

For those new, each year, I publish what I see will be the top 10 systems for the coming year, based on a set of criteria (which will be listed shortly). Too many people focus on features now, and on top of that, what the vendor says is coming. . There are vendors who focus on quality of a specific client segment, rather than mass.

Learning System 135

Learning System System Compliance Training Metrics 135

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 25, 2024

There are two types of learning systems. I’m not talking about an LMS, LXP, combo, TDP, or EXP (drop the name on that), learning platform, or “We are not an LMS, and anyway, they are a dying breed” (I’ve written that is far from true). What I am referring to, is commercial or in-house.

Learning System 78

Learning System System Moodle Open Source 78

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s a perfect segue into the 2023, Learning System Awards. Initially I was going to present the systems that took off after mid-year, and list them, but I realized the same list would then appear for 2023. Questions – Each learning system vendor was asked a series of questions.

Learning System 98

Learning System System Metrics vendor 98

Talented Learning

APRIL 10, 2018

Way back in 1953, when the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) first reported industry financial benchmarks, membership dues represented a whopping 96% of the typical organization’s revenues. In fact, by 2016, subscription income averaged only 45% for trade associations and 30% for professional associations.

Association Learning Management System 76

Association Learning Management System Association LMS Association Learning System 76

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The same can be said for Enterprise Learning Systems. Anyone can mention they are Enterprise, and that their learning system is for “Enterprises”, but finding the best of the best of those, isn’t so simple to quantify, let alone clarify. Employees will use whatever learning system you give them.

Enterprise 99

Enterprise Learning System System Metrics 99

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 7, 2024

I know you are wondering what this has to do with my LMS, LXP, Learning Platform, Employee Development platform, or other type of learning system. Are there vendors where this isn’t a failure? You could take a look at 30 learning systems, and at least 20 have the same design with how it appears.

Learning System 61

Learning System System SAP Metrics 61

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 11, 2023

LMS aka Learning Management System. LXP – Learning Experience Platform. Learning Platform. Cohort-based learning platform. There is a lot there for types of systems as I have noted before. Learning tools – now referred to as learning technology. Employee Development Platform.

Learning System 76

Learning System System White Label vendor 76

eLearning 24-7

MAY 2, 2022

The challenge with each of these events is that there are a lot of vendors pitching their systems, content, consulting firm, e-learning tool and other items, and you as the person walking the floor doesn’t necessarily know who to look at, who to seriously consider and who to avoid. Expert 101. Over 100 course publishers.

vendor 104

vendor Authoring Tools Guide Metrics 104

eLearning 24-7

JULY 26, 2024

Learning Platform? A Learning Platform driven by brain-centric modalities? LMS vendors always had skills and capabilities. Isn’t every system innovative? We are not a (fill in the blank – but often they use LMS). We haven’t found a system that can do that.

Innovation 67

Innovation Association Learning Management System Platform LMS 67

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 26, 2023

Probably the least fun experience you will ever have when looking at or considering any type of learning system (LMS, LXP, EXP, Learning Platform, Craig’s Javalinas R US, etc.). The majority of vendors will continue, regardless of what you espouse. The vendor is Skill Jar. The way this happened?

Learning System 64

Learning System System vendor Association Learning Management System 64

eLearning 24-7

JULY 12, 2023

Let’s face it – RFI/RFP documents sent over to learning system vendors are massive tomes that confuse, challenge and even baffle some vendors. Yeah, they are focused on essentials, again, forgetting this is a learning system and is for learning. These comments are for you, not the vendor.

Templates 60

Templates Learning System System RFP 60

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Even with limited development skills, there is an area within Helium, where a template is available, and code snippets – you select say X, the code is provided, and a simple cut and paste. Thought Industries is for customer education/partner training, associations, and other B2B/B2C, like training providers for example.

Learning System 98

Learning System System Metrics vendor 98

eLearning 24-7

MAY 16, 2023

If you have seen a learning system, any system, at a trade show, such as LTUK, or ATD (coming up), or on the web, or in your dreams, you start to notice a retread. There are systems that do not follow this path, at least UI/UX wise, but the pitch, spin, reason why, and blah blah blah, is redundant. Bite-sized learning.

Learning System 74

Learning System System Metrics Mentoring 74

Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Almost daily, new statistics highlight the need for effective skills training and professional development. In this environment, you’d think associations would be bursting at the seams with participants in member education programs. However, only 53% relied on their association for those educational experiences.

Association LMS 92

Association LMS Association Learning Management System Association Education 92

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

To understand the history of the LMS, there are five items that drove it. CBT Prior to online learning known then as WBT, and then the latter term of e-learning (vendors today, use it to refer to content that is online), there was CBT. The LMS The player for online learning and WBT? It was a university.

Compliance Training 82

Compliance Training Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS 82

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 15, 2023

The premise that an LXP, for example, does so much more than an LMS is 100% untrue. LXPs offer assigned learning. They, thus are not learner-centric, the moment the client decides to go assigned learning. The skills are, overall, not as strong nor advanced, compared to many LMSs in the market. The others? Both are LMSs.

Association Learning Management System 71

Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS vendor 71

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 4, 2022

I see a lot of learning systems in any given year. Each of them, declaring themselves as a “star”, as a shining representative of outstanding learning or training or some combo of the two. I mean, there has always been speculation of a Planet X in our solar system, waiting to be found. A vendor to watch.

Learning System 83

Learning System System Metrics vendor 83

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 23, 2020

In looking over the past 10 years of pricing data (that I have been tracking) when it comes to learning systems, there is a repetitive variable, ok,, variables at play. This line not only is continuing, but you can expect to see a lot more vendors reducing their price per seat/per year in the coming months.

Learning System 58

Learning System System Compliance Training ILT 58

Talented Learning

JANUARY 9, 2018

Welcome to our 4th annual LMS and learning systems “Trends” post! As fiercely independent learning technology analysts, we think a trend isn’t just a fleeting idea that comes and goes like fashion, or a social media hashtag. 15 Business Turns Up the Volume On Extended Enterprise Learning.

Learning System 104

Learning System Trends System Compliance Training 104

eLearning 24-7

JULY 10, 2021

Knowledge or Skill building and development? Skills today are super hot and as a few readers mentioned the other day on LinkedIn, it is not new. And sure there are plenty of systems out there, that for more than a decade you could import your own skill dictionaries and taxonomies – but it was not universal.

Skills 105

Skills Taxonomy Metrics Comparison 105

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 1, 2019

That said, I will say to you, that before you just buy the learning system, please, please do due diligence on the system. Just as some people love Nutella, others will find it on the same level of peanut butter mixed with bananas, which should be forbidden and outlawed in the solar system. The Hub (Center).

Learning System 75

Learning System System Metrics Compliance Training 75

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 20, 2020

Once again the same criteria as the previous rankings, which you can find here and unless otherwise specified you can find every system on my learning system search engine platform, FindanLMS. I strongly recommend that if you reach out to any of these vendors, you want to have a demo first and foremost. 29 Talent LMS.

Learning System 72

Learning System System Scanning Compliance Training 72

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 1, 2021

” By now, you are thinking, “Oh, he is about to say the LMS market is finished, OR that they are dinosaurs doomed, and thus us naysayers have been right all along,” sorry to disappoint, but no, no, and no. Skill identification. Skill development. Skill building. Skill gaps. Skill validation.

Market 116

Market Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS 116

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 15, 2021

Well over a month ago, on LinkedIn, I started a weekly series where I would select one learning system and compare it to a few other learning systems. Not every vendor does it though, and you will eventually figure out who does it a lot, by checking out the sites. Each vendor will have Five to consider.

Alternatives 105

Alternatives System Docebo SAP 105

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 6, 2020

not suppliers), on what they are seeking in a learning system, often noting the LMS and an LXP. Some want a hybrid of the two, others want features that they believe may not exist in one system or another. Sure a vendor can say we are an LXP, but a LMS too or vice versa. No, it is not learning software.

Compliance Training 71

Compliance Training Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS 71

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Can compete with any learning system out there, by the way. Playlists which they call channels is abundant and so are the recommended content from their machine learning algorithm that offers a nice variety of content based on what the learner is taking (they are not required to complete it). EdCast – #1 LXP for 2020.

Metrics 130

Metrics Association Learning Management System Association LMS Comparison 130

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 26, 2024

What I have seen though is the lack of constant and consistent training/learning for employees, association members, customers (B2B), even execs when it comes to the latest around AI – in this case Generative AI. Trust me, it won’t be the vendor. Who’s responsible here? Multimodal? fixed it).

Trends 62

Trends vendor Training Train 62

Talented Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2017

It’s time again for the annual Talented Learning LMS Awards! The Talented Learning Awards are not a money-making affair for us. Vendors can’t buy their way onto these lists. In fact, there is no cost to participate and no way vendors can influence the outcome directly. Because in truth, it depends!

Association Learning Management System 0

Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS Compliance Training 0

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Whenever you see a topic or category, which may or may not include a specific vendor, and it is deserving of a “TREAT” you will see this: Aww, isn’t it cute? TREAT Generative-AI latest pricing with vendors. That vendor is D2L – both for their Business edition (which I love) and their EdTech version.

vendor 69

vendor Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS 69

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A funny thing happened on the way to using GPT-4 last week, which I suspect that the vendors who have implemented GPT-4 and are using it as a statement/Q and A to the learners were not paying attention to. Turbo, which many vendors use that have OpenAI. Microsoft is not the only vendor that offers copilots.

Association Learning Management System 76

Association Learning Management System LMS Authoring Tools Association LMS 76

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Surprises in E-Learning One of the biggest surprises, is that so many folks are unaware that e-learning was an umbrella term, as I noted in the History of the LMS post. Vendors use it to refer to online courses/content. On top of that, they misspell it – the term is e-learning. It has always been e-learning.

vendor 74

vendor Association Learning Management System Mentoring Slides 74

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 16, 2023

Grabbed your Vendor’s Jersey or garb they give you and are raring to go? That’s right, the annual, Customer Education Learning Systems Bracket. Vendors still fail to recognize this. As of late, some companies are placing customer education systems under Marketing. Are you sitting down? Standing up?

Custom 79

Custom Metrics White Label Education 79

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 22, 2021

They continue to muddle up the learning system space. The way a 3rd party content provider works with an LXP (or any learning system that offers a marketplace) is that they have a partnership agreement – allowing the vendor to have them in their marketplace. Why do vendors, say LMSs, say they have an LXP?

Metrics 124

Metrics vendor Cornerstone Association LMS 124

Talented Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

When you look at the list below you might wonder why we’re not calling this our 2019 Book of Learning Systems Trends. Well, a lot is happening in extended enterprise learning and we want to touch on all the high points. In fact, this guide is like the learning systems landscape, itself – deep, broad and multi-faceted.

Enterprise 44

Enterprise Learning System Trends Market 44

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 8, 2022

In the learning system space, there is equally a lot of stuff, some of which you either have purchase, plan to purchase or are considering purchasing. Learning Tools. How many out there, have a swath of courses/content on your learning system? Learning Systems are like Streamers everyone has more than one.

System 91

System Portal vendor White Label 91

eLearning 24-7

JULY 1, 2021

Or ask which system should I buy between A or B. I do recommend you start your assessment first on FindAnLMS , after it comparing systems, and seeing my “ratings” which are updated twice a year. E-Learning Coach is a free service. Why then are so many vendors saying it is?”

Association Learning Management System 102

Association Learning Management System vendor LMS Association LMS 102