eLearning 24-7

APRIL 25, 2013

There has to be a real gain and benefit to the learner, the training/learning department/division and the company itself. Even in education there has to be real value – real attainment to a learning goal or objective. One LMS platform that is heavily geared towards gamification is Growth Engineering.

Gamification 95

Gamification LMS Pipes e-learning vendor 95

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

484 respondents who completed every question, 40% corporate, 30% education, 8% non-profit, o% from association and 22% e-learning vendors (those were extracted from the below results and will be seen in a future blog). Cross tab – Of those who responded yes, nearly split between Corporate and Education.

Mobile 74

Mobile Video Association Learning Management System Authoring Tools 74

eLearning 24-7

MAY 19, 2014

E-Learning is an umbrella term of online learning. Hello, it fits under e-learning. Under e-learning. Mobile learning platform? Yowsa – e-learning. Social learning? E-Learning. Assessment tool for online learning? E-learning.

vendor 75

vendor Authoring Tools Compliance Training Virtual Classroom 75

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. CBT was the “new” and exciting way to learn.

Compliance Training 81

Compliance Training Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS 81

eLearning 24-7

MAY 13, 2014

Estimate 55% e-learning related content, including e-learning vendors and ILT vendors who added a “virtual training” component as part of their offerings. To me, many more LMS vendors than in the past, especially some newbies I’ve never seen attend the show. And the lack of lunch.

Authoring Tools 69

Authoring Tools Conference ASTD Blended Learning 69

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

MAY 2, 2011

Virtual desktops not only mimic a desktop on a cpu, but they include such things as a calendar, clock, media player, wallpaper background, desktop icons, online storage, word processing, high file size upload (some go up to 150mb per file) and e-mail. Many include WebDev – thus it can become a PaaS (Platform as a Service)?

Open Source 77

Open Source e-learning vendor VOIP vendor 77

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 5, 2012

On the vendor side, nice set to select from although on the freebie side – always is lame. Vendor Angle. A must for any e-learning vendor. That said, vendors have found the show overall to be a mixed bag. Vendor Angle. Strong showing from European vendors. Vendor Angle.

vendor 68

vendor Ratio eLearning Guild Social Networks 68

eLearning 24-7

MAY 28, 2013

Vendors who do not see their learning platform as a LMS. From an e-learning standpoint, the ASTD show received an “A” For ASTD itself, an “F” Unless you are still standing in that Starbucks line, then it is an incomplete. E-Learning 24/7. You can track courses?

ASTD 82

ASTD Analysis Conference SumTotal 82

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. At the end of the day, any educational institution needs to generate cash; right now these are free, so tell me how long do you think that VC investing 40M plus is going to chill, until they want to see $$$?

Trends 77

Trends vendor Wiki e-learning vendor 77

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Lots of ILT vendors – again, the show has always been geared towards this, so no surprise, in fact, ATD formally known as ASTD has always been heavy on ILT and book things, and just in the last few years has seen a major increase in e-learning vendors, with the past show being nearly 50% – the highest ever.

Conference 68

Conference Scanning vendor ILT 68

eLearning 24-7

MAY 18, 2012

I believe this new sub-genre will grow, much like the social learning platforms of the past few years. Increase in 2013, of these types of capabilities on other platforms and tools – whether it is via an interface/integration or a piece of this and that. Social and Mobile Learning Platforms.

Virtual Classroom 66

Virtual Classroom News ILT vendor 66

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 23, 2012

I know this one word is creating a stir among the instructor led crew and some educators, but in education we use the term “learning”, not “training” when we are teaching students. Custom Development and LMS vendors. PeopleMatter equally provides a mobile platform for their TM system.

Trends 80

Trends vendor Outsource LMS 80

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 12, 2012

One of the top systems for the education market. They are already in higher education and are now expanding to K-12. However, as noted above, the system is extremely strong in education. SMS (text notifications) which is strongly used today by students in higher education. Pricing is mid tier on the education side.

Compliance Training 99

Compliance Training LMS SCORM Offline 99

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Right now, you have to upload the course as you would with your SCORM wrapper, where you self-upload or use the course within an online mobile platform from your authoring tool vendor. Whether it is a mobile learning platform, authoring tool or a LMS/LCMS – TinCan will be huge. with TinCan). What is TinCan?

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 105

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Compliance Training LMS vendor 105

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

I mean besides making additional money, I would never want to have their name on the platform. 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. Great educational learning management system.

SharePoint 95

SharePoint LMS vendor iPad 95

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Learning Management Systems. Mobile learning platforms. Social learning platforms. If you want to track in a learning management system or learning platform that supports SCORM then you want it. After all, we are educators, training directors, training/learning professionals.

RFP 68

RFP Compliance Training Association Learning Management System vendor 68

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Really for education, but yeah others could probably use it. Video learning platforms. While its user interface good definitely need an upgrade, for people who want a true synchronous based platform (i.e. education/higher ed) this will suffice. Never heard of them? You will. #21 21 Panopto. 12 Administrate.

LMS 71

LMS Cornerstone OnDemand Saba Totara 71

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

For the past month, I have been conducting a survey on learning platforms and specifically learning management systems. . The data shows that what many vendors assume end users want is far from accurate. Too many vendors are focusing on talent/performance management as the next feature/component in their systems.

Association Learning Management System 77

Association Learning Management System LMS Association LMS Blended Learning 77

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 10, 2011

There is actually a vendor who has a mobile app available on iTunes, Upside Learning. Sure, it is for their specific mobile learning platform (and I’m glad they do it), but they have one. Despite what the RCAT vendors might think, not everyone has a laptop or desktop. Mobile Learning Tools.

iPad 77

iPad iPhone vendor iTunes 77

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 24, 2011

They have always been quite secure, which reminds me, more systems are emphasizing in their marketing materials, that their SaaS platforms are secure, with some even stating the level of security, i.e. 256 bit AES. I should note that there is one vendor who has their entire mobile platform on a USB jump drive. Well, say no more.

News 73

News Authoring Tools vendor Rapid Intake 73

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

MLOAT - Multimedia Learning Object Authoring Tool. SCORM compliant learning object generator, customized editing interface, web based media player that works across multiple platforms, video/audio, image slides, text synchronization. Add lessons – seen in the education versions. Screen capture.

eLearning Tools 85

eLearning Tools Authoring Compliance Training Flash to HTML5 Conversion 85

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 20, 2011

They involved talent management, “hello and goodbye” with vendors, social learning, upswing in mobile learning, new feature sets in the authoring tool space, flat lining in web conferencing and standalone platforms. LMSs/LCMS/CMS/learning platforms in commercial and open space continued their presence.

Blended Learning 95

Blended Learning Authoring Tools Augmented Reality vendor 95

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

eBook platforms. I’d say they are clearly meeting the demands of today’s business and educational needs (for those systems targeting that market). Even those who offer a pure open source system are meeting the needs of some businesses and educational institutions. Built-in marketing tools. Lower pricing.

LMS 74

LMS vendor Compliance Training Centra 74

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 19, 2011

How can this work with e-learning? We know that mobile learning platforms, whole purpose is to output learning, including learning gaming sims onto a mobile device. We also are aware that mobile learning is the new “buzz&# in the e-learning world. What do you think will happen?

Streaming 67

Streaming iTunes Apple Association LMS 67

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 1, 2012

I love Questionmark, its a wonderful product and it can use a “connector” to integrate into your learning platform or system. The only real gain for survey tools – specifically polling – is the mobile real time polling option, but even then, it is starting to slide into some learning platforms.

Authoring Tools 71

Authoring Tools News Association Learning Management System LMS 71

eLearning 24-7

JULY 30, 2012

File lockers for each student (education solutions). Integrates and works with Google Apps (education systems). Support for ELL/ESL students (education). each end user can choose their own language to view the entire platform (a few systems). Assessment tool with plagiarism detection (education system).

Association Learning Management System 67

Association Learning Management System vendor Association LMS Portal 67

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 18, 2012

The latter is slowly gaining speed, which is an advantage to LMS vendors who have a CAT in their own product – which is SCORM,PENS/IMS compliant. Over 98% of the LMS/LCMS/learning platform have at least one compliance standard, so why use a RCAT that doesn’t? The data is how many people have accounts. Disgusting. .

Authoring Tools 76

Authoring Tools Authoring Market Tools 76

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 17, 2013

When you click it you see a window where you can set time, etc – but it calls itself “office hours” – which is higher education, but what if you are corporate? Knoodle also offers you the ability to hide questions, set minimum scores/percentages, show teacher comments (again education) and a couple of other items.

Productivity 58

Productivity Product Slides Audio 58

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 31, 2012

Offers two products – one is a stand alone platform, the other is a stand alone product – you can integrate the video into your own LMS/ l earning Platform. The reason I say education/academia more so – is that it is geared towards synchronous based learning, which is used more than 95% in education/academia space.

TechKnowledge 71

TechKnowledge Assessment PPT vendor 71

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

From the academia/education standpoint, this form of social exchange is already in play. Vendors such as Edmodo, enables teachers at various schools across the world to communicate with each other. educational) lacking: is an interface for a LMS or learning platform. Social Learning: Social Exchanges.

Mashups 73

Mashups Association LMS Association Learning Management System Social Media 73

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

These are the voyages of mobile learning. To boldly go where no e-learning vendor has gone before, specifically LMS vendors who are now starting to get it. . To, ah forget it you now the rest, but what you may not know is the latest on the mobile learning front. Higher Education and mobile learning.

Mobile 40

Mobile vendor Mobile Learning xapi 40

eLearning 24-7

JULY 27, 2011

Make no mistake, there are plenty of vendors out there who believe in the concept of focusing on features and forgetting about usability, under the guise that people would rather have lots of cool blinky things rather than usability. While this is a great concept for party decorations, it is not for a learning platform.

Association Learning Management System 78

Association Learning Management System Market LMS Association LMS 78

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Greater number of vendors switching to only SAAS or “in the cloud&# rather than self-hosted. Continued growth for open source solutions; Moodle is still the king; especially in education, although it is slowly starting to appear in the business and government side. #2 2 Mobile Learning. From the makers of Upside Learning.

vendor 69

vendor Flash to HTML5 Conversion Mashups iPad 69

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 3, 2011

CODiE – in one category under “Software”, 32 awards are available, at least two winners per award, one has three: 65 winners – some of the awards do not fall under “e-learning” CODiE – under “Education”, 23 awards are available, at least two winners per award, a couple have 3 winners.

Authoring Tools 63

Authoring Tools Open Source vendor SCATE 63

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 12, 2011

So, when I went and checked out Saba Social, Saba’s new social learning platform, I had very low expectations. One of the worst ideas, IMO, ever offered in a social learning or social platform is “Impressions&#. I admit that in general I have been underwhelmed in the past with Saba. I was surprised.

Saba 69

Saba Social Networks Social Productivity 69