The Truth and Realities of E-Learning
Naysayers are starting to appear on why social learning is irrelevant. They see it as no value and no benefit to end users. I don’t blame them because the industry seems to be stuck in a rut. They love excuses to not to do it. Time, to end the excuses.
There was a time that a 20 plus page RFP would answer all the questions and ensure that you found the right vendor. But that was then. Today, watching and asking questions during a demo, will enable you to send out a streamlined RFP.
While e-learning products and solutions are offering more and more features, they still haven’t focused on the one feature that is essential to their success – user interfaces that are easy to understand and utilize.
Learning Management Systems of the year; includes extended enterprise, social learning, Big Dog & open source: corporate and academia.
LMSs will survive for years to come, but they must change, they must invigorate and innovate. With the number of vendors in the market, those that stand like stone or run in a wheel like a mouse, will watch their competitors race past them to garner a larger share of the market – the global market.
Mindflash.com’s solution may call itself a training management system, but it is really a rapid content authoring tool wrapped up with a couple of reports and the ability to have invite people to take the courses. While it provides some very nice features, it offsets it with too much ILT components for me to recommend it.
Before you can discuss social learning you must understand the social media market, understand the data and see the trends. Then and only then, can u see where social learning falls with consumers and vendors. This study answers those points.
In the LMS marketplace, 20% offer trials, 30% use social media, some are charging storage fees, others forget they are in a global marketplace, and we as consumers are not being heard.
The LMS/LCMS market is split into three categories when it comes to social learning – do nothing, barely put your toes in the water or jump in. Those who do nothing or barely place their feet into the water are going to eventually see themselves isolated in this space.
The Plateau Talent Management System has made great improvements in what the end user sees on the front end, with ease of use highly visible, but still has issues with the administration user interface and reporting.
