Not one but two learning management systems (LMS) success stories have just emerged – from the broadcasting as well as the oil and gas industries. For the last three years, the e-learning consultancy Core Learning Services (CLS) has been working with Global Radio (GR) - the UK's premier commercial radio company – to host [...]
In his keynote speech at Plateau Insights, Plateau Systems’ European user conference, held in Rome and the end of March, Thomas Otter, Research Vice President at the market analyst firm Gartner, Inc, revealed that he and his team receive a wide range of queries about ‘talent management’, ranging from the extremely general to the highly [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
Google has created an application experiment called CloudCourse. This is an open source learning platform, running under AppEngine, Google’s Cloud Based environment. CloudCourse is being used internally at Google for several learning management system (LMS) type functions - from registration to classroom management. It is available as an Open Source codeset (available from http://tinyurl.com/3yqpqrs) and [...]
The US-based e-learning commentator, Elliott Masie, has identified that learning management systems (LMSs) seem to becoming ‘stretched’ by having to accommodate learning via new technologies. According to Masie: “Many organisations are celebrating their tenth – at least - anniversary with their LMS. While these systems have been updated and customised over the years, in [...]
Recently, the US-based eLearning Guild published a free digital book called ‘339 Tips on the Implementation of an LMS or LCMS’. The book contains what its publishers claim to be ‘an amazing collection of tips from hundreds of your professional colleagues’. Comment: Of course, an LMS and LCMS are increasingly important weapons in an [...]
