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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
