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E-Learning Zombie Edition – includes trends and duds

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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. A couple of vendors told me they think it will be a fad. Seriously, awesome. Bottom Line.

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E-Learning End Users Have Spoken – time for the industry to listen

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I foresee the numbers of people who use e-learning and stream will increase in the range of +8 to 10%. Learning Platforms & Emerging Technology. Social media sites that focus on gamers are in the top twenty of most visited sites. 69% Self contained app for tablets with online/offline synch.

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Evolving the E-Learning Experience for the 21st Century

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Works even when offline. Boosts mobile learning value, social learning (P2P is a form of social media) and removes the browser issue for many businesses (i.e Vendors can create their own e-reader within their product, think Calibre which is free and opens up multiple ebook formats including.epub.

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LMS vendors: R u hearing us?

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30% vendors offer at least one type of social media – from my latest LMS directory. Dozens of LMS vendors, had typos on their web pages, zero screens of the system, links that went nowhere and two kicked up my Firewall warning of possible privacy collection and one had a Trojan Horse (I use a hardcore firewall and A/V).

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New E-Learning Rankings: Authoring Tools

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Features include: branching, assessment tool, convert slide notes to computer-generated audio via text-to-speech converter (11 voices/accents according to Brainshark), skinned, send links to access courses via social media, output to MP4, certificates and SCORM. Also no offline/online synch unless via a LMS (which supports it).

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Course Authoring Tools for eLearning Developers and the masses

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Can send course links via e-mail and even social media – seen in collaborative learning environments aka online authoring systems, some people call themselves training management systems – but the authoring tool is the key component. and SCORM support and learning objects. Ability to output to HD/MP4.

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State of the LMS 2012

eLearning 24-7

e-readers) will outsell PCs by 2015, with an estimated 500 million units a year. Mobile learning though is becoming somewhat of a spin for the industry. Very few LMSs offer online/offline synch with a native app – heck, online/offline synch in general, but pitch that they offer mobile learning. .