eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 31, 2010

When so many potential customers are seeing the advantages of open source, creating their own learning or VLE portals or seeing the value of various social media types and incorporating them into some type of social learning community, the “do nothing&# spin is well, a time warp into the past. E-Learning 24/7.

Social Networks 73

Social Networks Social Learning Social Social Media 73

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 27, 2012

Mobile Learning. This is one of the most shocking trends in the space – the significant lack of mobile learning in these systems. What makes this so bizarre is the extensive amount of data, that clearly shows students of all ages are using mobile devices. Integrated e-mail. Parent Portal.

Association Learning Management System 85

Association Learning Management System LMS Learning Management System Trends 85

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 14, 2012

Student, Teacher and Parent portals – It goes without saying on the student and teacher portals. As such, do folks really want parents to have their own portal? Integrate with SIS (Student information system) or alike. Most systems in the education space are still strongly focused on synchronous based learning.

Education 74

Education Social Networks Moodle Blackboard 74

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Majority of employees access a LMS or Learning Portal out of the workplace. Now, why doesn’t a vendor mention this information to a potential client, at least the first point – I can understand holding off on the second point, for selling purposes. Mobile Learning. Yes, I love consumer slate tablets.

vendor 72

vendor Social Networks LMS Innovation 72

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 10, 2011

Integrating an online storage/backup capabilities in a LMS. By viewing the consumer market, there is huge growth in this area, especially for people who have mobile devices. For end users in the e-learning market, it is clear they are following the market. It is extremely disturbing. And it is not just teens using it.

Authoring Tools 77

Authoring Tools Augmented Reality Flash to HTML5 Conversion LCMS 77

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

But with LMS vendors jumping into the mobile learning sector, at least in some cases, it may be a tad misleading. My question to vendors who pitch browser agnostic is simple: did you test and verify that your LMS (if you stated it as a mobile LMS) will work with these two specific browsers? LMS/LCMS/CMS Vendors.

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 69

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Association LMS Association Learning Management System Market 69

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Three months ago, only a few systems had either integrated for no additional charge or for additional fees, a talent management/performance management feature set. There is a growing list of vendors, including small/mid size that are adding talent management components that match the Big Dog systems. Ahh, how things have changed.

News 73

News Authoring Tools vendor Rapid Intake 73

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 5, 2012

New features include m-learning on the iPad with native app (no on/off synch), integrates with Yammer, themes, custom URL, assessment tool, the authoring tool is the key component, help and feedback tab. Part LMS, part social and yes a very nice part of mobile including apps for iPad. 18 Upside Learning. It’s sickening.

LMS 71

LMS Cornerstone OnDemand Saba Totara 71

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

That smartphones were the answer to mobile learning. Vendors were saying, lets “wait on those&# or “our customers are not requesting them, so we are holding off&#. Social learning? 2 Mobile Learning. From the makers of Upside Learning. From the makers of Upside Learning.

vendor 69

vendor Flash to HTML5 Conversion Mashups iPad 69

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 11, 2012

The people who suffer the most from this contradiction are the consumers and a vast majority of vendors. While mobile learning is moving at an incredible speed, faster than anticipated by some of my colleagues, it does not come without a cost. Your mobile web browser. HTML5 or is it? That cost is in the pitch of HTML5.

Pipes 71

Pipes vendor Offline iPad 71

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Majority of employees access a LMS or Learning Portal out of the workplace. Now, why doesn’t a vendor mention this information to a potential client, at least the first point – I can understand holding off on the second point, for selling purposes. Mobile Learning. Yes, I love consumer slate tablets.

vendor 40

vendor Social Networks LMS Innovation 40

eLearning 24-7

JULY 23, 2012

Mobile and Social. Mobile as a whole in the LMS space is still extremely low, but there are low cost systems that offer it. . Oh, and they work with mobile devices – a huge plus. Feature sets include IDP, mentor page, class side view, parent portal, file repository, blog for each student, event mgt and lots lots more.

Low Cost 80

Low Cost Cost LMS Server 80

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

But with LMS vendors jumping into the mobile learning sector, at least in some cases, it may be a tad misleading, especially with smartphones. My question to vendors who pitch browser agnostic is simple: did you test and verify that your LMS (if you stated it as a mobile LMS) will work with these two specific browsers?

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 40

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Association LMS Association Learning Management System Market 40

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Salesforce.com or customer mgt system integration – 17.1%. To me this is a very important question because it goes beyond, “what is nice” to what is “necessary” Mobile Learning – 68.5%. Peer Review, Chat, Collaborative Learning – 68.5%. Social Learning – 57.1%.

Association Learning Management System 77

Association Learning Management System LMS Association LMS Blended Learning 77

eLearning 24-7

JULY 9, 2012

Examples: E-mail notification via SMS. Mobile learning – it might surprise you to know that 75-80% of all systems in the space, currently do not offer any type of mobile learning, the number goes up even higher for online/offline synch. Integrates with Workday. Smart App for TV – One LMS vendor.

LMS 72

LMS vendor Cornerstone OnDemand Virtual Classroom 72

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 5, 2011

When it comes to the e-learning market, specifically the LMS space (and you can toss in LCMS, CMS, Learning Portals as well), there are a lot of traps that customers fall into and can’t get out. problems, no issues&# – To learn the real truth about Interoperability. any E-Learning product.

Case Study 61

Case Study Custom vendor SkillSoft 61

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 27, 2011

If you as the customer want to create your own API/Mashup or find one on the net and want to integrate it into your paid LMS, the vendor will charge you. In some cases, I have seen fees as high as 3K per integration. Why the extra fee for a vendor to integrate it into their system. Mobile Learning and Tablets.

Trends 75

Trends vendor Association Learning Management System LMS 75

mLearning Trends

DECEMBER 27, 2010

As we reach the first anniversary of this blog’s introduction, we thought we’d take stock and figure out how things are going by revisiting our list of predictions for enterprise mobile learning in 2010. On balance, it was an interesting year and there were far more expected outcomes than there were actual surprises.

Social Networks 56

Social Networks Flash to HTML5 Conversion Flash Flash Player 56

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 20, 2011

I especially love it when it happens in the e-learning industry. Innovators and Risk Takers – emerging technology integrated, new ideas, pushing the envelope in what is possible in e-learning/social learning/m-learning, coming up with something that has never been done before – risk takers.

Blended Learning 73

Blended Learning Innovation Productivity Product 73