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Agreement breaks out on LMSs

Bring any three experts together and you should get at least four opinions. Yet this wasn’t the case during the Learning Experts’ panel session at Plateau Insights Rome – the European user group conference for Plateau Systems’ talent management software, held at the end of March.   Clive Shepherd, Donald H Taylor and Nigel Paine [...]

By | March 30th, 2011|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Hot learning technologies identified

Asked – at the European user group conference for Plateau Systems’ talent management software, held in Rome at the end of March – what are today’s hot learning technologies, three of the UK’s top e-learning experts answered: Clive Shepherd: Mobile Apps rather than websites Self-study learning statistics should be available to show a learner what [...]

By | March 30th, 2011|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Breeding like LMSs

There are now – officially – 368 learning management systems (LMSs), learning content management systems (LCMSs) and talent management systems on the market.   That is the view of Craig Weiss, a former Brandon Hall analyst turned e-learning thought leader, guru and blogger (see: http://elearninfo247.com/ and http://elearninfo.com/). The US-based Weiss has listed all of them [...]

By | March 26th, 2011|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , |5 Comments

A Potential Curriculum 21st Century Skills

Elliott Masie has reported that he and 11 others – from Singapore, Finland, Canada, the UK and the USA - have met at Harvard in order to discuss the topic of ‘21st Century Skills - A Potential Curriculum’. The idea was to see what set of skills we need the next generation of students to [...]

By | March 26th, 2011|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , |0 Comments

Nelson Croom’s e-learning crusade

Alan Nelson, of Nelson Croom, which won an E-Learning Age Award last November, has now clarified in print his thoughts – delivered at this year’s Learning Technologies conference – on ‘the good, the bad and the ugly of e-learning’.   He argues that, before deciding on what is ‘good’ and what is ‘bad’ in e-learning, [...]

By | March 25th, 2011|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , |0 Comments

Former Bob Little Press & PR client floats

Former Bob Little Press & PR client, the talent management software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, Cornerstone OnDemand, has gone public – floating on the Nasdaq. Moreover, it saw its share price rise from $13 on opening to $19.03 at the close – a rise of 47 per cent. Earlier in the day, they had risen 59 per [...]

More e-learning trends

Spurred on by the story that David Patterson, of Learning Light, is to reveal the top three trends in e-learning in the UK at a seminar in Leeds on 30th March, I expressed the view (see ‘Learning Light reveals the current top three trends in e-learning in the UK’ below) that ‘my guess is that [...]

By | March 18th, 2011|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , , |0 Comments

New SCORM accolade for eXact learning solutions’ LCMS

eXact Learning Solutions has announced that the latest version of its LCMS – eXact LCMS version 7 – has been certified as conforming to the latest  SCORM standard: SCORM 2004 Third Edition.   As everyone in the e-learning world knows, the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications adapted [...]

Learning Light reveals the current top three trends in e-learning in the UK

David Patterson, operations director of Learning Light, the Sheffield-based organisation which focuses on promoting the use of e-learning and learning technologies, is going to reveal the current top three trends in the UK’s e-learning market. Patterson will reveal these trends at a seminar organised by Webanywhere Ltd, an international organisation which provides online learning technology [...]

By | March 17th, 2011|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , , |0 Comments

The passing of an era

You know you’re getting older when you notice sentiment creeping in, uninvited, to your judgements. In today’s corporate e-learning world it’s ‘dog eat dog’ and, generally, there are no tears shed for those companies who fall behind.   However, one of the corporate e-learning industry’s longest serving companies – PeakDean Interactive – closed its doors [...]

By | March 14th, 2011|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , |0 Comments