LXD Central

AUGUST 23, 2023

Why does one vendor quote $5,000 and another $20,000? Many vendors quote by the job, but as someone who has been pricing learning projects for the last thirteen years, I can assure you that behind the scenes someone is breaking that quote down into days and hours. How much should you pay for a learning solution? Hour 3 Hours Total 6.5

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Conversation ILT eLearning Consultant Consulting 98

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

ILT (Instructor Led Training – Workplace, even EdTech – K-12 and Higher Education). 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. It had something to do with ILT. CBT (Computer-Based Training).

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Compliance Training Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS 81

eLearning Industry

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Choosing a vendor to build your training can feel overwhelming. You want to be sure you’ve found the right partner, one who understands your needs, keeps you in the loop, and most importantly, delivers what they say they’re going to deliver. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Custom eLearning Development Content Developer Online Learning Content 73

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 11, 2024

A frontline worker – dealing with customers Face to Face (first gig) and second when I cleaned tables. Customers Customers – just saying the term will make some folks cringe because people can be friendly, jerkish, rude, pleasant, and demanding. Do it once with ILT and OJT = then what? 2005 is not the same as 2024. 

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Online Learning Online ILT Learning 87

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Questions – Each learning system vendor was asked a series of questions. I recognize that not everyone – i.e. vendor has the funds to invest heavily into the UI/UX, and thus I put that into context when reviewing a system. Based on their responses, points were awarded. UI/UX Learner and Admin side. The better metrics?

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Learning System System Metrics vendor 98

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A multi-level LMS, seven to be exact – with a 3D front-end customized to even the carpet had our name on it. A classroom for ILT. Today, very few vendors offer this depth. Eliminate redundancy and write it as you would if you were providing training to your employees or customers or both. Remember Geolearning.

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Enterprise Learning System System RFP 78

Cloudshare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We recently sat down with Debbie Smith , Customer Education Program Manager at Braze, as well as this year’s CEDMA Vendor Trustee. How can Customer Education employees leverage that? Often, the C-suite really doesn’t see the value of Customer Education , and this is where you can come unstuck. CS: Why is that?

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Suite Custom Metrics Expert 52

Training Orchestra

DECEMBER 29, 2021

However, if all of your attention is focused inside your organization, you are almost certainly missing a trick – and that “trick” is customer training. What is customer training? Customer training (also known as customer education ) looks outside your organization to address an audience called the extended enterprise.

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Custom Management Metrics LMS 52

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 31, 2023

Development), which most folks in L&D have anyway, OR if you are T&D (Talent Development, which most vendors are not using as a term, even though it exists) OR HR if you are doing some Performance, then performance management is part of your domain. If you are in L&D or have a background in OD (Org. We are all about employees.

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Performance Support Performance Trends Blended Learning 79

eLearning 24-7

MAY 19, 2014

Are there vendors in the e-learning space who lack basic understanding around e-learning? Lastly, if the vendors, organizations and firms whose whole background, expertise and existence is tied to e-learning and they themselves are not fully understanding it, does this bode well for the industry as a whole? IMO, totally).

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vendor Authoring Tools Compliance Training Virtual Classroom 75

SweetRush

JULY 28, 2022

In our article Comparing Off-the-Shelf vs. Custom eLearning Solutions: Which Is Best? , we took an honest look at the benefits and potential pitfalls of buying a ready-made eLearning solution versus building something from scratch with a custom eLearning solution provider. What is custom learning? Why would we do this?

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Sexual Harassment Training Compliance Training Harassment Training Diversity Training 69

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

I focused on what makes WBT tick, what is the differences between WBT and ILT. A couple of years, I needed extra staff to build WBT courses for our employees and customers. They all were used to the ILT approach. They assumed that WBT, was like ILT but just online. . It was ILT. ILT – the evil empire.

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ILT Online PowerPoint Instructional Design 70

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 17, 2021

Overall though when tied into the other capabilities, and responses to my inquiries – covering a variety of questions and understanding the vendor’s response or lack thereof, will identify where they slide. I can not stress this enough, if you are basing your decision on the vendor’s client list, you are going to be unhappy.

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Learning System System Informal Metrics 105

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Seriously though, there were plenty of vendors making their first debut at the show, and that went from great to, uh, yeah. The biggest aspect, well, at least from my writings about the show, and vendors who need a course in how to do a trade show with you know prospects walking about; was something I will get to shortly.

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DevLearn Scanning vendor Docebo 83

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 28, 2014

” Seriously though, a lot of people ask me what vendors to see or what vendors I look at, etc. The vendors that I list below in my guide, are across the board. Hopefully this will be fine with ASTD, but if this “bullet” changes to the vendor’s site, you will know why. ILT focused solution.

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vendor Guide ASTD Association Learning Management System 68

Talented Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In years past, the same dozen or so vendors competed for all the LMS market share. Nearly every vendor earned its bread and butter by selling to employee-minded buyers in HR. We have spent the last three years meeting more than 125 vendors — learning who they are, what they do, why they are unique, and who their customers are.

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Association Learning Management System vendor Association LMS LMS 0

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 21, 2023

If they were a vendor who played in EdTech (K-12, HE) but also played into corporate and did so, not just by having clients find them, but actively through marketing, they were considered too. Strictly If the vendor was a custom shop building a system, off say Moodle or whatever code they are using that is open source?

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Learning System System Metrics Compliance Training 69

Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Every LMS tried to be all things to all types of customers in all industries. A steady flurry of acquisitions disrupted customers’ lives but never the market as a whole. Innovation was stagnant and most vendor effort was invested in stealing customers from one another. Cloud to the Rescue.

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Association Learning Management System vendor Association LMS LMS 40

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 6, 2023

There are already a couple of vendors, in the works with it, and at least one, Firmwater, who says they have added it to their learning system (I have been promised a demo). Thus vendors, will need to add it, regardless of whether they the vendor has hired generative engineers/developers or went third party. Those were the days.

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Digital Learning Technologies Technology vendor 84

eLearning 24-7

JULY 27, 2022

When I was putting together this post, I knew it would not be as simple as say, this is cohort-based learning, this is why it is so amazing, and why vendors are jumping to it, as well as folks in L&D. Again, I find vendors even in EdTech who are unaware what constitutes SBL. It is not as simple.

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Learning System System Trends Online Learning 103

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 29, 2020

From a vendor perspective there was a huge impact, but what was odd, is that some vendors still are living in the past, as though, this is a minor blip, and in 2021, everything will go back as it was – corporate wise that is. If you are going this route for your customers, trust me, there are far better options. .

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Compliance Training vendor Trivantis Association LMS 117

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 23, 2020

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. You are unlikely to see this in the setup fee (if a vendor charges), rather it will come in the form of seat pricing. Common ones are custom domain, SSO, APIs and support.

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Learning System System Compliance Training ILT 58

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Oh, and not the first vendor I’ve seen this route, but that was more than a decade ago. Well, I guess for ILT, and even then as time has evolved, it hasn’t. There are vendors who pitch they have it, and there are folks who oversee L&D who still believe in it. One Term that Should be Kicked to the Curb.

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Compliance Training vendor Adobe Micro-Learning 98

eLearning 24-7

JULY 1, 2021

Join the group, ask questions, from how to develop a top-tier e-learning program to generating sales and long-term revenue with customer education/partner training, to establishing and building mass use with repeat learners. Why then are so many vendors saying it is?” Or ask which system should I buy between A or B.

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Association Learning Management System vendor LMS Association LMS 101

eLearning 24-7

MAY 31, 2018

If your company, business, association and firm are one of the hundreds of thousands places out there that provide customer training, this post is for you. Not only that, but it will resolve and solve for that matter a lot of challenges, issues and even worries on the part of each and every one of them – i.e. your customer base.

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Blended Learning Custom Association LMS Association Learning Management System 55

Training Orchestra

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Functionalities, scale, vendor capabilities and customer support, integration… it is sometimes hard to consider and appropriately weigh all the criteria to assess all the different solutions out there. LMS’s do not enable efficient Instructor-Led Training (ILT) and back-office management: ILT represents 70% of training dollars.

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Resources System Management ILT 80

CommLab India

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

There are two types of online courses – catalog and custom-built. Simple, with custom e-learning. Wondering why custom e-learning over online catalog courses for compliance training? Custom-built e-learning courses eliminate these problems. ILT To E-learning Conversion: Why It Works For Code of Conduct Training!

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Compliance Training Code of Conduct FCPA Training Compliance 44

eLearning 24-7

JULY 11, 2022

Look today, at the number of folks who still hang onto ILT. It was clear that not even LXP vendors (as a whole) knew – which explained why they targeted L&D, ignoring the other monster in the room, training. LXP vendors loved to push the notion that LMSs (the dominant learning system type) only provided formal learning.

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Compliance Training Metrics vendor Learning System 86

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 17, 2019

They were about to launch a luxury vehicle in the 40K range, in the United States to attract the customers of BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Lexus (to name a few). They recognized though that these same customers were unlikely to buy because they would be unlikely to have a Hyundai in their driveway. Hyundai had a problem. Authoring Tools.

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Virtual Classroom vendor Metrics ILT 53

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 15, 2023

In my upcoming NexGen Leader Pack (coming in late July), the majority are LMS vendors. Because, ILT, on-site, was the only way, the main way to learn (excluding the guides nobody read) didn’t and still doesn’t offer that. The first vendor to have geolocation in their mobile app? LMS vendor. Nor at DevLearn.

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Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS vendor 70

eLearning 24-7

MAY 16, 2023

It wouldn’t surprise me if the majority of vendors who go with Gen-AI (and eventually, they all must, or they will be too far behind), use GPT (by OpenAI). I’m already seeing the sidestep I wrote about just a week ago, in order for vendors to reduce cost (those tokens). Maybe today it is ChatGPT (cheaper token-wise).

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Learning System System Metrics Mentoring 73

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Turbo – which vendors in our space tend to go to) and that’s it. I don’t care if you are using an Enterprise version of an LLM, AI bias can occur Hallucinations – One vendor in our space, identifies it as a mistake (when folks are starting to use the generative AI. Not an ILT session. into an LLM.

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vendor Version Compliance Training Privacy 67

eLearning 24-7

MAY 11, 2020

1 – Many vendors in the EdTech market have done a poor job, helping their school clients during the Pandemic. I do wish to recognize though a couple of vendors who went beyond for their school clients – D2L, Instructure and itslearning. No vendor will ever tell you they are struggling or low mid-pack or worse.

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vendor ILT Learning System Tutorial 54

Tony Karrer

APRIL 3, 2007

Since I'm likely not going to be blogging for about a week starting Friday, I thought I'd get an early jump on this month's Big Question from LCB - ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should They Do? Generally customers are buying something more than a course or courseware. Or customer satisfaction. to.Net 2.0.

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Big Question vendor Compliance Training Content 100

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 6, 2020

Sure a vendor can say we are an LXP, but a LMS too or vice versa. LMS vendors on the other hand are adding LXP features, to counter, and in some marketing may note, learning experience blah blah. . One vendor Linkedin Learning bases it on everyone in the system, regardless if they work at your place or not. API integration.

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Compliance Training Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS 70

SweetRush

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We’ll work with you to customize what matters most to you and your stakeholders. Say you’re interested in sentiment analysis to help your learners improve their communication skills within a customer service interaction. The Dashboard captures and displays a customized set of learner performance data. within the experience?

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Authoring Tools Content Blended Learning Simulations 52

The Learning Circuits

APRIL 1, 2007

Like many industries today, there are significant changes going on for Instructor-Led Training (ILT) and Off-the-Shelf Content Vendors today. Smaller Increments : Customers want to purchase training in smaller increments to minimize time away for learning. This causes several problems for ILT and Content Vendors.

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