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How to Make Elearning Accessible: Insights from the 2017 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference

The Learning Dispatch

Bill Tyler, digital accessibility engineer at Optum Technology, favors a role-based approach , where testing rests with the appropriate decision-making role instead of the quality assurance team (which usually enters at the end of the development process).

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How to Make Elearning Accessible: Insights from the 2017 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference

The Learning Dispatch

Bill Tyler, digital accessibility engineer at Optum Technology, favors a role-based approach , where testing rests with the appropriate decision-making role instead of the quality assurance team (which usually enters at the end of the development process).

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Time for Change: MOOCs and Learning Technology

CLO Magazine

The demand for MOOCs stems from an enormous appetite for branded, high-quality education among students around the world who cannot afford expensive private education. Companies such as Blackboard, CBT Systems — now Skillsoft — Saba and Docent were born. We’ve seen this before. What’s different now?

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Learning Audiences Are Not Created Equal: Employees vs. Extended Enterprise

Talented Learning

” Their education and experience is focused on instructional design, learning theory, content quality, and training efficiency. Online content for employees can be aggregated from third-party providers such as OpenSesame, Skillsoft, Lynda, or Harvard Mentor. 4) Third-Party vs. Proprietary Content.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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ATD17 Post Review: Rants & Raves Edition

eLearning 24-7

Skillsoft debuted a new LMS, but I would say it is a major work in progress. Before angling towards Lynda.com or Skillsoft, I’d search them out. mentorCliq – First off their website stinks, so don’t get discouraged if you go there and are like “what.?” And traffic as a whole was strong.

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2017 Talented Learning LMS Awards: Best of the Best

Talented Learning

Products in this category are designed to look and feel like popular consumer shopping websites like Amazon or Best Buy, so customers can quickly find, buy and consume content and communicate about it. Skillsoft – Percipio. Not surprisingly, ecommerce capabilities are essential. ServiceRocket – Learndot. Honorable Mention.