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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For many years, perceived wisdom – whatever that may be – has stated that the European markets for corporate e-learning are strongest in the UK and the other northern European countries, notably Germany and France. Corporate e-learning was said to have not made the same mark in the southern European countries – mainly Spain, Portugal, [...]
Two – no doubt of many – recent examples of the business world helping young people to develop valuable life skills include: Ben Turner, National Sales Manager for the Institute of Sales & Marketing Management (ISMM), is helping unemployed young people in Bedfordshire improve their chances of getting jobs in sales and marketing. Ben [...]
Technically, the Government says that it wants to – and does – encourage small and medium sized companies (SMEs) to bid for, and get, Government contracts. The Government says that this will provide the taxpayer with greater value for money because SMEs tend to be more creative, flexible and so on – and also tend [...]
From the start of the e-learning industry (which some date to the mainframe, green screen days of the 1960s but which everyone agrees was in full swing by the late 1980s), e-learning producers fell, roughly, into two categories: those that produced what came to be called authoring tools (the software needed to develop e-learning content) [...]
