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2016 eLearning Hype Curve Follow Up

Web Courseworks

Now that we are over halfway through 2016, we felt it was time to reflect on how well our predictions played out here at Web Courseworks as well as the eLearning industry. Performance Improvement is an organizational focus for us here at Web Courseworks. Read xAPI in the eLearning Community. Plateau of Productivity.

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2019 eLearning Predictions – Hype Curve

Web Courseworks

The discussion of the concept or technology increases a bit – never reaching the previous level of buzz, because the only people with reason to discuss it are the actual users – and reaches a moderate, stable level: Gartner dubs this phase the Plateau of Productivity. How we Built the eLearning Hype Curve.

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The Average Joe imperative

E-Learning Provocateur

Web conferencing was starting to become popular around the same time, and while these days Skype and FaceTime are de rigueur , back then webcamming introduced a sorely needed human element to distance learning. However, I noticed something peculiar with web conferencing. Yet more fascinating for me was its implications for education.

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eLearning Hype Curve: Our Predictions for 2019

Web Courseworks

The discussion of the concept or technology increases a bit – never reaching the previous level of buzz, because the only people with reason to discuss it are the actual users – and reaches a moderate, stable level: Gartner dubs this phase the Plateau of Productivity. Building the eLearning Hype Curve Dataset.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Web Courseworks

The Army Research Laboratory in Orlando, Florida (the Silicon Valley of simulation), is, a source tells us, leaning toward specifying xAPI (see below) as the standard for LMS-simulator communication. xAPI: It is eerie how xAPI has exactly followed the hype curve. If implemented, that will make a big difference.

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2016 eLearning Hype Curve Predictions

Web Courseworks

We think this one has a relatively clear path to the Plateau of Productivity. Peak of Inflated Expectations: xAPI and Badges. At the big eLearning conferences this year, roughly 50% of sessions and exhibitor booths were focused on either xAPI or Badges. In xAPI’s favor, the U.S. Plateau of Productivity: Blended Learning.

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2016 eLearning Hype Curve Predictions

Web Courseworks

We think this one has a relatively clear path to the Plateau of Productivity. Peak of Inflated Expectations: xAPI and Badges. At the big eLearning conferences this year, roughly 50% of sessions and exhibitor booths were focused on either xAPI or Badges. In xAPI’s favor, the U.S. Plateau of Productivity: Blended Learning.