eLearning 24-7

JUNE 25, 2012

There are dozens of free audio plugins available on the net, so why aren’t screen capturing/recording vendors offering the ability for the end user to add them? There is something wrong when a free and open source product like Audacity can do it, yet a product that costs hundreds of dollars cannot. That’s fine.

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 73

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Video Wondershare Flash 73

CommLab India

MAY 30, 2017

Businesses rely on employees, and any health problems or injuries to employees affects workplace productivity. A study, by Lockheed Martin of their Paducah Plant, found that by following safety procedures, they were able to increase employee productivity by 24% and reduce factory costs by 20%. Boosts Employee Productivity.

Compliance Training 58

Compliance Training Training Train Statistics 58

SweetRush

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

By now hopefully your company’s leadership team has bought off on the concept of e-learning as a cost-saver. We know it reduces time spent off the job, eliminates costly travel costs to attend instructor-led training, and allows us to learn the same amount of content in a shorter amount of time. Give them options.

Business 70

Business ROI vendor e-learning vendor 70

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 24, 2013

One of the wonderful things I love about attending expos is the ability to see new products and new vendors. For example, there were several vendors making their debut – as in their solution – at DevLearn. The problem though, is no one could see the product. E-Learning 24/7. Very cool analytics.

DevLearn 90

DevLearn vendor Case Study e-learning vendor 90

CommLab India

JULY 13, 2016

Moreover, e-learning development is a lengthy process. Tight budgets and labor costs are forcing companies to shift from developing their own e-learning materials to outsourcing learning development. The e-learning vendor brings expertise to the development process. Cost reduction.

Outsource 44

Outsource Benefits vendor Expertise 44

eLearning 24-7

MAY 2, 2011

Eliminates the “storage&# content component of learning management systems that sadly continues to grow- to offset systems’ bandwidth and server costs. The benefit for you, saves unnecessary costs and increases ROI. Mobile learning value is there, expands a system who offers extended enterprise. Nearly zero.

Open Source 76

Open Source e-learning vendor VOIP vendor 76

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 16, 2010

Then near the end of the year, you decide to renew and sign longer, an additional hassle, more problems, potential higher costs and really you have other things to build and grow upon – even with the LMS, but also other aspects of your training dept. Does the solution stay the same, features? E-Learning 24/7.

LMS 40

LMS e-learning vendor LCMS vendor 40

eLearning 24-7

MAY 5, 2021

And therein lies the problem. The Customer Excellence Pledge puts forth a set of statements a vendor has to adhere to – via a signed agreement with checkpoints to validate, the ongoing level of elite support. Eliminating the game of “who can help me, where do I go” – a huge problem in the industry.

Custom 89

Custom vendor Examples Learning System 89

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

As you all know, I monitor the entire e-learning industry and with that comes out some interesting trends. MOOCs are growing at a continued pace, but they still have problems answering some basic questions. E-Learning 24/7. Trends in the Trees. Here comes your content in “chunks”, short mini packs.

Trends 77

Trends vendor Wiki e-learning vendor 77

eLearning 24-7

JULY 30, 2010

However there are vendors who sell their API solution wrapped in a piece of software. SCORM Player communicating with your vendor’s solution, for example, if you were creating your own LMS and Rapid Intake’s rapid e-learning authoring tool, it includes a SCORM Player API. No problem.

Mashups 65

Mashups Social Networks Authoring Tools LCMS 65

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

It comes from me talking to vendors, buyers, monitoring the industry all the while taking notes and seeing the trends/patterns appear right before my eyes. What has always amazed me are number of e-learning vendor web sites whose design looks like it came from 1995 when Netscape ruled the land. Upside Learning.

vendor 86

vendor Site Web e-learning vendor 86

eLearning 24-7

MAY 16, 2011

In today’s corporate world, you can not toss a rock in any direction without someone mentioning SharePoint as the glorious solution for social learning and in many cases a LMS. The social learning savior or a hero waiting to save the learner in distress? They love it, and they want you to know about it. It depends.

SharePoint 80

SharePoint Social Learning Social Social Networks 80

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 26, 2014

I don’t care what your vendor told you on that. For some vendors if they can get you to pay $60 a seat, they will do it and have no problem laughing after they get you off the phone or emailing to their boss with glee. . I tell you what, let me give you an estimate on how long I am going to be interested in your solution.

LMS 71

LMS vendor e-learning vendor RFP 71

eLearning 24-7

JULY 23, 2010

While the solution delivers more than enough for a LMS and the company gets “it&# for where the industry needs to go, GeoLearning has made some interesting decisions with GeoMaestro that to say the least is bewildering. Role focused capability & groups (common in every LMS solution). Add-on modules. GeoMaestro Details.

GeoMaestro 58

GeoMaestro GeoLearning Productivity Product 58

Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Learnnovators: In this age where most learning happens ‘informally’ (through on-the-job-learning and peer-learning), how well do you think the early adopters of Experience API support informal learning? Mike: Early adopters are broken into two categories, traditional e-learning vendors and new market entrants.

ADL 100

ADL SCORM Compliance Training Standards 100

Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Learnnovators: In this age where most learning happens ‘informally’ (through on-the-job-learning and peer-learning), how well do you think the early adopters of Experience API support informal learning? Mike: Early adopters are broken into two categories, traditional e-learning vendors and new market entrants.

ADL 100

ADL SCORM Compliance Training Standards 100

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 8, 2010

What about that e-commerce module you decided to buy? What about the cost of customer service (more on that in a second)? Do you ever see extra costs hidden in there and say to them, uh what is this? Total Costs and Discount Breakouts. Clearly the total cost is obvious. Telephone and E-Mail. It is Free.

Association LMS 53

Association LMS Association Learning Management System Scanning LMS 53

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Let’s pose a hypothetical: You are close to deciding on your LMS/LCMS, however you notice there are items or components or reports you want to include or have, but they are not available on your solution. Ask and see what can be done by the vendor – Customize it! Additional cost. It will cost you for customizations.

Custom 40

Custom LMS LCMS vendor 40

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 8, 2010

What about that e-commerce module you decided to buy? What about the cost of customer service (more on that in a second)? Do you ever see extra costs hidden in there and say to them, uh what is this? Total Costs and Discount Breakouts. Clearly the total cost is obvious. Telephone and E-Mail. It is Free.

Association LMS 45

Association LMS Association Learning Management System Scanning LMS 45

eLearning 24-7

JULY 3, 2010

Because it offers the capability to start out using it either as the robust social learning product and ignore the LMS part (inc. But the real WOWSA is in the social learning component. One of the biggest problems I always saw in the products was the back end, i.e. what the administrator sees and has to use. No problem.

Mzinga 53

Mzinga Productivity Product Portal 53

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 29, 2014

World of Learning Conference – Birmingham, UK – Lots of potential here. Well organized – a must show for e-learning vendors in 2015. If I am a LMS vendor who is either exploring Europe, has clients in Europe or wants to have clients in Europe – you should be here. . Amazon Storyteller.

LMS 92

LMS SCORM vendor Microsoft 92

eLearning 24-7

JULY 13, 2010

The trends apply to both LMS/LCMS vendors. Extended Enterprise - Vendors are expanding into the wholesaler/reseller/affiliates/sales agent sector with their solutions. The note of interest is that it is occurring with all size of vendors, albeit the charge is being led by mid size vendors.

LCMS 77

LCMS Trends LMS Social Networks 77

eLearning 24-7

JULY 27, 2011

I see it a lot, especially with social learning and the wonderment of some vendors of adding a “discussion forum and text chat room&# as part of their solution. But here’s the thing, there are costs involved with doing business, because the savings in return can be ten fold. . A huge problem in the space.

Association Learning Management System 78

Association Learning Management System Market LMS Association LMS 78

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I’m not saying that e-learning vendors who follow the “trial” and give us your credit card mantra are following this approach nor are they doing so in a nefarious way, I’m just giving you some insight in how companies that use this approach, see value in it.

RFP 68

RFP Compliance Training Association Learning Management System vendor 68

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 10, 2011

With all these vendors talking about their solution and its capabilities on mobile devices, it should be easy to find an app for that. Regardless if the vendor is m-learning specific, content authoring tool, LMS, web conferencing or a hybrid. But what about cost? That alone, though will not solve the problem.

iPad 77

iPad iPhone vendor iTunes 77

eLearning 24-7

MAY 11, 2012

I would love to see a survey from ASTD sent one week after the show to attendees asking them what vendors they visited online with specific requirements that they did so, without visiting the ASTD app, ASTD online site showing the exhibitors and their web sites and the heavy book. The cost is $325 per license, but a minimum of 25 licenses.

ASTD 82

ASTD ILT vendor Blackboard 82

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Costs and quality will vary. For vendors creating standalone apps for the masses on a variety of offerings or new product lines, costs will need to be significantly lower, otherwise it will not be successful. Costs will vary, again lower price points are needed. Smaller size vendors are now entering the foray.

Blended Learning 94

Blended Learning Authoring Tools Augmented Reality vendor 94

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 6, 2010

The problem was everyone was pushing away and moving into the digital camera space in a relative short amount of time. Today, Kodak has never been able to dominate the market in digital cameras, although that is their main solution. Social learning is based on incorporating social media types (whatever you choose) and e-learning.

Plateau 64

Plateau System Productivity Product 64

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 28, 2011

People in the booth that actually know the product inside and out – I’m surprised on how this continues to be a problem at a lot of e-learning shows; some companies stock their booths with people who are very nice, but really do not have any knowledge on the product, beyond what they read on the product sheet they are handing you.

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 65

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Productivity Product Authoring Tools 65

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 7, 2010

We want to reduce our costs, and our current LMS is too expensive. You can easily move it into the other LMS, by simply re-packaging it with its wrapper - via your rapid e-learning tool solution. In case there are any problems, they can get resolved before go live. E-Learning 24/7.

LMS 40

LMS Compliance Training vendor Scanning 40

eLearning 24-7

MAY 31, 2011

Web conferercing continues to be hot, but it is not as easy as just selecting vendor x or y, rather to find the best solution, it is important to identify certain items and features before moving forward. . For the vendors who offer this option, they go about it in a couple of ways. How it Works. web cam) capability.

Web 73

Web vendor License VOIP 73

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 5, 2011

problems, no issues&# – To learn the real truth about Interoperability. Integration with ERP solutions – “We have never had any issues with any ERP system. Integration with 3rd party tools – “Yeah, typically we haven’t had a problem. E-mail within 24 hours or less. No problem.

Case Study 61

Case Study Custom vendor SkillSoft 61

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 18, 2011

Again, for some people important): Do you have a web conferencing solution in your system? If it cannot do the things you want, then what’s the point of paying for that extra cost, unless it is for convenience? . Typically there is no cost. If the vendor offers it, they say yes – but here is the twist.

vendor 68

vendor LMS AICC Compliance Training 68

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 14, 2012

Moodle can be a worthwhile system but it requires heavy customization, dedicated IT person who has Moodle skill sets (ideal), in-house support (because when end users can’t figure it out – they will come calling YOU) and costs that many folks fail to realize. It is not a turnkey solution and frankly it is just not that good.

Education 74

Education Social Networks Moodle Blackboard 74

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The problem is that many LMS vendors either don’t know what it is, never ask people or tell them about its on/off synch capability with mobile devices (key for learning – tablets), especially the iPad (which dominates the market). That is only have the solution. What’s will stop it? Ring of Fire.

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 105

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Compliance Training LMS vendor 105

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 12, 2011

Learning Management Systems, LCMS, Learning Portals. Some of the biggest problems. If I am vendor, whose product is paid (i.e. I have seen systems that are extremely low in price who are very good solutions and user friendliness exists. The same with smaller size vendors. The worst of the offenders.

Authoring Tools 68

Authoring Tools vendor NexLearn Authorware 68

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

As a former training director I had enough problems with users buzzing me about whatever, but having the name of the vendor too would not be good. E-commerce fee per year. E-Commerce with many vendors is included nowadays. A video learning platform hits the rankings. A big peeve of mine in general.

SharePoint 95

SharePoint LMS vendor iPad 95