eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Its nearly Halloween and with that comes the shocking and fearful excitement or lack thereof of the scariest things on the plane appearing at the movie theaters, in costumes, television and for us, the course authoring tool market. Because other vendors are getting into the act as well. Fear #1 – Evil Clown Pricing.

CD-ROM 83

CD-ROM Authoring Rapid Intake Flash to HTML5 Conversion 83

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

It was within these comments, that afterwords, I decided to expand a bit plus identify other areas that I see, LMS vendors must explore – which they have not yet done so, to re-energize themselves. Thus, the LMS vendors are creating a Bogeyman – their own bogeyman, and it does not have to be that way. Social Learning.

vendor 72

vendor Social Networks LMS Innovation 72

Creativ Technologies

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Retail e-learning is encouraging offline shopping by training employees in the following ways: Saving customers’ time: The customers have although started stepping out of their houses to visit stores, just like online shopping, they desire a fast experience. The post Is retail e-learning that useful or it’s a waste of resources?

Resources 52

Resources Offline e-learning vendor Micro-Learning 52

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Product of the expo - there can be only one… Worst marketing of a product and how it reminds me of the marketing case study involving Infiniti cars of 1981-82. Product of the Expo. One of the wonderful things I love about attending expos is the ability to see new products and new vendors.

DevLearn 90

DevLearn vendor Case Study e-learning vendor 90

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 20, 2013

Nope, it is based on studying the market and analyzing it. From an interaction (listed as interactivity) to a feature within the product. Because the industry as a whole is a lemming, I expect more vendors to come on board. How hard is it to offer such a capability within your product? Fortune Forecast Cookies.

Authoring 74

Authoring Market Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion 74

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

LMS Vendors. 30% vendors offer at least one type of social media – from my latest LMS directory. 30% vendors offer at least one type of social media – from my latest LMS directory. Over 90% of LMS vendors had their sites available only in English; so the potential customer could not view it in any other language.

vendor 66

vendor LMS Skype Social Media 66

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 10, 2010

Today, I was going to discuss how to market your LMS to your employees, but instead wish to focus on a common question, I often receive about LMS vendors. Here is some insight into the market (just a tad), some of which you may know, others which you may not. For the debut review, the vendor is GeoLearning. Love and Hate.

Market 60

Market LMS LCMS vendor 60

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 18, 2012

The RCAT (rapid content authoring tool) market continues to be healthy with nothing to slow it down – uh, except maybe one thing (more on that later). I am still surprised on how vendors who are offering assessment only tools are staying in the game. I hope it does – especially with SaaS products. It isn’t.

Authoring Tools 76

Authoring Tools Authoring Market Tools 76

eLearning 24-7

JULY 27, 2011

The LMS market is strong. They are necessary for the evolution of any system and mandatory to garner more market share. While this is a great concept for party decorations, it is not for a learning platform. There are a plethora of vendors out there, with blinders on. . The Negatives. Features First.Usability Second.

Association Learning Management System 78

Association Learning Management System Market LMS Association LMS 78

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Latest data: 95% of the tablet market is owned by iPad. 35 tablets will hit the market starting in early Q4 to late Q1 2011. HP Slate already is in the market, runs on Windows7, but targets the business market. HP Slate already is in the market, runs on Windows7, but targets the business market.

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 69

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

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 29, 2010

The bottom line without getting technical or overly detailed, the solution is hosted on your vendor’s servers and not hosted on your internal servers. With a hosted solution, the vendor’s servers are able to tested to withstand scenarios like this. LMSs and their client list. Ask for references is a waste of time.

vendor 60

vendor LCMS Server Cloud Computing 60

eLearning 24-7

JULY 23, 2010

It is truly amazing on how vendors seem to think lots of stuff on the page, is the way to go and navigation is just a requirement. GeoMaestro is API friendly, which in today’s market and where the market needs to go, is critical. Why vendors still think this is not needed or used, makes no sense. Social Learning.

GeoMaestro 58

GeoMaestro GeoLearning Productivity Product 58

eLearning 24-7

JULY 20, 2011

As the rapid content authoring market continues to grow, new features and capabilities are equally growing. You work online via the servers of your vendor. I had thought that this trend would be dying out, but it is amazing at the number of vendors who are entering the space and still focused on the desktop approach.

Authoring Tools 78

Authoring Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion Authoring Trends 78

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 27, 2010

LMS Products of the Year 2010. A lot of great products out there this year, new updates and latest versions; new companies, new services and just some real innovation. I include Learning Portals, LCMSs, as part of the mix. The product is Flash based, which is nice, but lack of mobile optimization for the iPad. Categories.

LMS 66

LMS Productivity Product Plateau 66

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 28, 2011

What I like about conferences is the ability to see the latest products and hear the pitches from the vendors. Regardless, you need to have your product out and showing. Yet, for all that do it, their are equal number of vendors who do not. their own sales folks) and type of product they are pitching. The Average.

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 65

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Productivity Product Authoring Tools 65

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Mobile Learning. LMSs – Finally vendors took notice. Sadly though many still are in the dark on true mobile learning – i.e. not accessing their platform via a mobile web browser. Authoring Tools – With only a small sample of vendors that are SaaS based, pickings are slim. Market as a whole.

vendor 85

vendor CD-ROM e-learning vendor Offline 85

eLearning 24-7

MAY 20, 2013

It was an exciting first day, with lots of vendors hitting the entire training spectrum. First day cool product of the show. Here are my favorites: Numerous vendors were unhappy that they had to pay $700 a day for Wi-Fi, that didn’t work most of the time or was slow. Other vendors weren’t so lucky. Leapfactor.

ASTD 77

ASTD Conference SumTotal e-learning vendor 77

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 6, 2014

While I am sure that occurred at WOLC, the ones I gazed at, which were presented by vendors, had no sales pitch whatsoever, rather it was all about a specific subject tied to e-learning. A lot of talks of showing product, discussing deals, scheduling future meetings. To me that was impressive.

Conference 68

Conference Scanning vendor ILT 68

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 26, 2014

ASTDTK14 zoomed into Vegas last week with about 60 vendors (est.) On the expo side, and I know ASTD Events are going to disagree with me (err, they already have via Linkedin), I wasn’t overly impressed on the number of vendors’ booths. Conferencing vendors – Were there any? Wi-Fi for booth vendors was horrible.

ADL 66

ADL ASTD vendor Social Networks 66

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. Web site stinks = product stinks. 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.

vendor 86

vendor Site Web e-learning vendor 86

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Latest data: 95% of the tablet market is owned by iPad. 35 tablets will hit the market starting in early Q4 to late Q1 2011. HP Slate already is in the market, runs on Windows7, but targets the business market. HP Slate already is in the market, runs on Windows7, but targets the business market.

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 40

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

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Social Learning Platform. Just last week, I saw the best social learning platform ever. Best of all, even if you choose not to use it, the product is available to the public as a new social media site. From a social learning standpoint. Product name is Ensemba. Learning Management Systems.

Trends 75

Trends vendor e-learning vendor LMS 75

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 9, 2010

One vendor with 750 users, priced out at nearly 24K a year; another close to 11.5K – thus depends on users is a factor. Basic systems – people are being overwhelmed with systems that shove as much as they can into their product and overcharge for it. Extended Enterprise/Channel Product/Distributors Market.

Trends 70

Trends Flash to HTML5 Conversion vendor e-learning vendor 70

eLearning 24-7

MAY 2, 2011

What always stuns me are vendors who state they know what their learners want, but in reality have no clue, because they themselves do not see the technology and its usage among the masses. Each one is available today on the Internet for free and these types of products are gaining mass in the global market. Online Storage i.e

Open Source 76

Open Source e-learning vendor VOIP vendor 76

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 23, 2010

The bottom line without getting technical or overly detailed, the solution is hosted on your vendor’s servers and not hosted on your internal servers. With a hosted solution, the vendor’s servers are able to tested to withstand scenarios like this. LMSs and their client list. Ask for references is a waste of time.

Hosting 40

Hosting vendor Cloud Computing LCMS 40

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 9, 2010

One vendor with 750 users, priced out at nearly 24K a year; another close to 11.5K – thus depends on users is a factor. Basic systems – people are being overwhelmed with systems that shove as much as they can into their product and overcharge for it. Extended Enterprise/Channel Product/Distributors Market.

Trends 69

Trends Flash to HTML5 Conversion vendor e-learning vendor 69

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 13, 2013

Q : I am curious on why Cornerstone On Demand, Saba and SumTotal do not appear in your top twenty lists even though they appear on other sites as the best products in the market. Every e-learning consulting/research firm, etc. WebEx has been around forever which doesn’t hurt from a marketing or biz standpoint.

SumTotal 73

SumTotal Blogging vendor Saba 73

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

It was within these comments, that afterwords, I decided to expand a bit plus identify other areas that I see, LMS vendors must explore – which they have not yet done so, to re-energize themselves. Thus, the LMS vendors are creating a Bogeyman – their own bogeyman, and it does not have to be that way. Social Learning.

vendor 40

vendor Social Networks LMS Innovation 40

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Vendors are assessing as well. The show is solely focused on e-learning and the vendors come from all over the world. 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. Vendor Angle.

vendor 68

vendor Ratio eLearning Guild Social Networks 68

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

At one time BlueVolt was just a spark, a system among many other systems in the market. Ability to offer ads for products or ads to specific sections for folks to visit – for each child (sub-portal) - yes – every child can be skinned to look a different way then the parent. Social Learning – No. SCORM, AICC.

Productivity 71

Productivity Product Association Learning Management System Compliance Training 71

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

World of Learning Conference continues to deliver winning results. Why LMS vendors and authoring tool ones for that matter, do not come in droves to this conference is mystifying to me. . Sure there were some LMS vendors there, but sheesh, there should have been a lot more. And authoring tool vendors? Just saying. .

vendor 0

vendor Totara e-learning vendor Flash 0

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

For the rest of us, it isn’t, unless you see the latest takeaways as examples of what is to come or more importantly what hasn’t – which is really a could be doomsday to many vendors – unless they wake up! In my newest directory, I have 138 vendors. 37 support m-learning. E-Learning Vendors and Apps.

Association Learning Management System 72

Association Learning Management System vendor Association LMS Rapid Intake 72

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. I hate it.

Mzinga 53

Mzinga Productivity Product Portal 53

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 10, 2011

Recently, I conducted an emerging technology survey related to e-learning and the results show that end users are utilizing technology more then ever before and are seeking product features that LMS and content authoring tools, do not offer at this current time. With an increase in e-learning sales a, projections of 7.1

Authoring Tools 77

Authoring Tools Augmented Reality Flash to HTML5 Conversion LCMS 77

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 20, 2011

The LMS/LCMS/Learning Portal market continues to be strong. In my latest directory, 393 LMS vendors – global, of which 34 or so are open source systems. Here are five trends that are being seen in the market, but one of these trends can cause consternation, among current customers. It was a myth.

Social Networks 72

Social Networks Trends LMS vendor 72

eLearning 24-7

JULY 8, 2010

The market continues to grow it is nearly impossible to see every vendor’s latest solution. Additionally, vendors can cease to exist quickly. There are a large number of vendors who support ERP systems, inc. Some vendors use the words “VLE&# – but in a deeper dive, it is a LMS for them.

LCMS 68

LCMS LMS Brandon Hall PeopleSoft 68

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 20, 2013

The same thing applies to the learning management system market. Selecting a system takes a lot of time, a lot of commitment on your part (and group, if applicable) and yes, even cost – the amount of time x productivity x your salary wage/time spent to find a system. Whichever sticks – is your vendor.

LMS 79

LMS vendor Learning Management System e-learning vendor 79