We come across lots of new ideas and market news as we travel around. We have set out below some of the latest items that have attracted our attention.
Outstart and Eedo Merge
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Consolidation continues on the technology supply side of the the e-learning market with another merger.
Over 250 delegates and more than 30 speakers and facilitators gathered at Olympia for the first Learning and Skills Group Conference on 30th April 2008. We decided to join them to see what all the fuss was about.
It’s a standing joke in the e-learning business that we’re all the shoemaker’s children when it comes to providing e-learning for themselves – we’re the last target audience on the list. We’ve been thinking about it differently – that’s why we’ve started the Kineo Academy.
Ian and the guys promised us a great Learning Technologies this year with more pre-registered visitors, 120 exhibitors and 40 seminar sessions. We are pleased to say they didn’t disappoint. There was a great sense of buzz as you walked around the place.
If there’s one thing you can predict with absolute certainty in e-learning, it’s that there will be quite a few prediction lists doing the rounds in January. We hate to be left out….
In January this year we asked various industry experts for their predictions for 2007. Now it’s time to revisit those Ghosts of E-learning future to see if they rattled the right chains. Let’s see how they did – and there’s still a few days left in the year so a few might come good yet….
Last week we gave a presentation to the E-learning Network event on free e-learning. The focus of our presentation was on the availability of free tools that can enhance your e-learning developments.
The whole world’s collaborating – and that raises big questions for learning professionals, suggests Steve Rayson in his review of "Wikinomics”, by Tapscott and Williams.
We’ve been tracking the use of Linked In over the last few years, keeping up with old acquaintances in our industry and beyond, hooking up with others by inviting them to join our LinkedIn groups.
We came across this great article by Kenneth Carlton Cooper on the 12 Unavoidable Truths About E-Learning
Kenneth argues that in the haste to “get it out there,” organisations are ignoring some basic realities about technology and learning, as well as about today’s learners. His article is reproduced in full below.
While we were at the E-Learning Guild Annual Gathering, the Guild launched its latest LMS survey. We were right there to muse on its findings hot off the presses.
eLearning Guild have announced their Member’s Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS) and as Clive Shepherd has pointed out Moodle did rather well.
A report released this week (March 2007) by Eduventures, Sloan Consortium, and Babson College, shows a slow but steady decline in the percentage of blended courses offered by colleges and universities, while purely online courses continue to grow. At the same time, the report found that colleges and universities have not been meeting consumer demand for online course offerings.
In case you haven't seen it, Clive Shepherd has posted a thought provoking piece on the science of learning. The piece is based on a workshop Clive attended entitled The Science of Learning, which was facilitated by cognitive neuroscientist Dr Itiel Dror of Southampton University.
Articulate Online is a new user-friendly hosted service that allows subscribers to track how employees, customers, and prospects interact with their e-learning courses, assessments, surveys, and presentations.
ASTD have published their latest State of the Industry report for 2006. There are a number of key headlines worth noting including the fact organisations are now seeing real, measurable payoffs from their e-learning investments.
January 9, 2007 -- Articulate Presenter was named the winner in two Best of Elearning! 2006 Awards categories -- Best Presentation Tool and Best Authoring Tool by readers of E-Learning! Magazine. Articulate Rapid E-Learning Studio Professional -- an integrated authoring suite that Articulate Presenter 5 Pro, Articulate Quizmaker 2, and Articulate Engage - also received an Honorable Mention in the Best Authoring Tool category.
2006 was another great year for Moodle. A quick look on Google trends reveals that Moodle was a far more popular search term than e-learning. In fact, twice as many people searched for Moodle than for e-learning.
Articulate, the leading rapid e-learning authoring tool company has announced a great new product called Engage. We liked it so much we have already bought a copy! We love it.
Kineo's Age Equality 2006 e-learning programme has been enthusiastically received by everyone who has seen it, with customers including The Home Office, ntl, BT, BUPA and Citizens Advice. Our customers have been asking if other aspects of diversity could be addressed in the same way. Today, Kineo is pleased to announce the release of a new e-learning programme on Diversity.
We come across lots of new ideas and market news as we travel around. We have set out below some of the latest items that have attracted our attention.
Moodle is not only the world's favourite LMS it is also open source and free. Learn more and try one of Kineo's Moodle sites.
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