We profile and review top learning management software for delivering content across various sectors and for a range of needs.
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Mobile Learning in 2021 – The Complete Guide to mLearning
If you want to deliver online education or training in a manner that’s easy and convenient for your learners to access on the go, then good mobile learning design is essential. Here’s our complete guide to mlearning in 2021, including the latest content design and strategy best practices.
A Review of My Showcase
My Showcase: the next generation of e-portfolio technologies. E-portfolios have been in use for a number of years but beyond the narrow remit of education they have not broken into the mainstream of learning and development. As with SCORM, the standards of...
A Review of Kokm
Kokm is more than an LMS. Kokm provides an online business solution: an intranet, an extranet, a resource library and an LMS. This means that Kokm is a slightly different product to the stand-alone LMS which we usually review.
The services which Kokm provides constitute a unified platform which, through the integration and unification of its services facilitates communication, connection and learning within a business. These three features are all features of a good LMS, and so the holistic Kokm package may not be as far from a traditional LMS as we think. In short this is an LMS aimed at that once mythical concept of the Learning Organisation.
A Review of scormLMS
scormLMS made its debut at Learning Technologies with one of the most straight forward branding messages and we quickly signed up for a “self drive demonstration”.
I cannot recall how many LMS we have looked at over the years but this one was a pleasure to use.
Review of School Jotter
Our review of SchoolJotter from Webanywhere - a great school website builder with useful e-learning and communication features. School Jotter is an innovative tool from Webanywhere which enables schools to create personal, functional, user-friendly websites and much...
Adaptive Learning
Adaptive learning is the term for e-learning which adapts to its user’s needs. The idea is that learning becomes personalised, so that what you are taught and how you are taught it is relevant to you.
Rather than having a rigid course in which every learner is taught the same thing with the aim of reaching a specific learning goal, the needs of each learner are picked up by the system and the content of the course is adapted appropriately for each learner to reach that goal.
The real future of e-learning and edtech is tied to analytics and assessment.
There is a huge amount of noise and numerous newsletters about MOOCs at present and we are seeing considerable interest and equally considerable investment being made into MOOCs. The MOOC list we keep is growing longer and longer, and in a previous blog we predicted...
e-learning: a major NHS Success story
A HSJ (Health Service Journal) supplement published recently looking at the Electronic Staff Records (ESR) roll out provided some stunningly encouraging information as how the NHS is using e-learning. The NHS’s ESR project is the world’s biggest programme of its kind,...
UNESCO Policy guidelines for mobile learning…..what they may mean for the development industry.
The UNESCO paper, entitled Policy Guidelines for Mobile Learning has been recently published, and provides some enthralling examples and ideas as to how Mobile Learning can be used globally for education. With a series of short vignette’s giving examples of innovative...
MOOCs and the Corporate e-learning market
How much attention should the corporate e-learning world be paying to the latest developments in the world of Education and e-learning – the rapidly arriving MOOC revolution! There is no doubt that education technologies have had a considerable impact on corporate...
What we will see at Learning Technologies 2013
As my inbox fills up with invites to visit stands at Learning Technologies, and Training Press releases gets busier and busier with announcements of launches and seminars, we know Learning Technologies is fully upon us. As well as our usual review based on visiting...
The Top 20 LMS – Infographic by Capterra
The 20 most popular LMS solutions I was taken with the infographic produced by Capterra listing the 20 most popular LMS solutions. The Inforgraphic looks at the numbers of customers, numbers of users and gives an on-line score….a measure of the number of social...
Movement in the LMS Market with Moodle growing very fast in brand recognition
A survey published by Elearning magazine looking at Learning and Talent Management Systems predicts strong growth. The research is based on a web based questionnaire covering 26 questions and was completed by 246 organisations. The findings give a good insight into...
When will the tipping point come for mobile learning?
There is an ever growing conviction, and no shortage of investment in mobile learning technologies by the e-learning industry at present, indicating a firm belief that this is the "now" or "next" big thing! In an industry given over to a little too much hype and...
Has e-learning progressed in the last 6 years?
It is very informative to read the excellent publication from UfI Charitable trust: Scaling Up – Achieving a Breakthrough in Adult Learning with Technology where a team of researchers have interviewed a great number of influential individuals in this world of...
Blackboard buys into Moodle, just as the UK Government lists a Moodle provider on its IMLS Framework.
Well what is going on in the world of LMS and VLEs? Well something quite amazing! We read on Ray Henderson’s blog that Blackboard have to use his words “embraced open source” by acquiring Moodlerooms Inc. in North America, and NetSpot Pty. Ltd., a leader in Moodle...
Why Moodle is ahead of the game in the world of open source LMS/VLEs
The leading open source LMS Moodle with its huge user base and profile (at least in the world of e-learning) does have a number of peers. It would be unfair to call them rivals, and of course we would advise you to consider all options if you are selecting an LMS /...
The number of Moodle users is just amazing
Take a look at this site listing numbers of Moodle users and prepared to be amazed. Here are the stats from Moodle http://moodle.org/stats/ and take a deep breath when you see the level of usage across the world. Over 1.2 million teachers and over 57 million users...
Harnessing Technology or Disrupting Class two sides of the same coin?
Harnessing Technology or Disrupting Class two sides of the same coin? The many excellent BECTA reports addressing school and college use of e-learning and learning technologies offered a vision of an insightful vision of the future, the 2008 report “Analysis of...