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Merger - OutStart & Hot Lava (Mobile Learning)

eLearning Cyclops

OutStart has announced a merger with Hot Lava software. OutStart produces an LCMS and development tools (including TrainerSoft, which was renamed OutStart Trainer). It will be interesting to see where this goes. There are many challenges to m-learning.

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Introducing New Technology: From Promise to Reality

Allison Rossett

Last year, speaking to a conference of aviation trainers, John Alonso, CTO, OutStart , observed that ninety percent of mobile learning pilot projects he is aware of have failed. The reason was that the implementations were not being driven by a business problem, but rather by the coolness of the technology. Ninety percent!

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Introducing New Technology: From Promise to Reality

Allison Rossett

Last year, speaking to a conference of aviation trainers, John Alonso, CTO, OutStart , observed that ninety percent of mobile learning pilot projects he is aware of have failed. The reason was that the implementations were not being driven by a business problem, but rather by the coolness of the technology. Ninety percent!

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Performance - Collaboration - Social Network Analysis - eLearning Hot List

Tony Karrer

Can We Enhance People's Cognitive Outcomes?

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LMSs, TMs and HCMs

eLearning 24-7

Thankfully ST Maestro is a separate business line, and it would be ideal to keep it that way, but to better compete in the market, especially when your competitors are already incorporating “training/learning” into their HCMs, wouldn’t it be a logical next step? They purchased Outstart, a LMS. What about Kenexa?

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M-Learning: Where’s the app for that?

eLearning 24-7

Outstart, who purchased Hot Lava, a mobile learning company, and who advertises in large size on their web site about mobile learning, doesn’t have an app. If you are a LMS vendor – business, unless your target market is education/academia – then education. Nor even when I typed in “elearning or e-learning&#.

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My 2012 Enterprise mLearning Predictions Recap

mLearning Trends

The acceptance of mobile learning within the business community probably won’t happen with much fanfare, it will just happen and be accepted as a “norm” wherein the market no longer asks “should we offer learning to our employees (or partners or customers) via mobile device?” On Target But. And learning vendors (e.g.,