Fast Forward: E-Learning in 2013
In the 1920′s a film called Metropolis, showed interstates and skyscrapers (before they came into existence). In the 60′s, Marshall McLuhan saw the Internet, thirty years before it existing. “The next...
View Article5 E-Learning Forecasts for 2012
Every year, I identify five trends that I am seeing in the industry as a whole, and forecast on where they will be heading throughout the year. In 2011, I saw quite a few items that resonated. They...
View ArticleLatest Trends in E-Learning
Twice a year I will be providing some trends that I am seeing in the e-learning market. Training This one trend really is an irritation to me, because the term “training” is showing up rather than...
View ArticleMay Edition: E-Learning News and Notes
Tributes are meant to be something special. A way to recognize the past of someone or something. In this month’s issue, my tribute is to the 80′s a time where the Net wasn’t around, ILT was the...
View ArticleThis is not (fill in the blank)
When you view the painting “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” – “this is not a pipe”, you would think to yourself “how could this be”? After all, you are looking at a pipe, therefore a contradiction has taken...
View ArticleHalftime! LMS trends though July
This past week I attended an Arena Football league game and came to realize there is a reason I never have been to one – I never heard of anybody nor did i enjoy the blasting of a semi like cannon...
View ArticleOn Fire in 2013 – What’s going to be hot in e-learning
Yeah I know its not the end of the year, when such forecasts tend to show up in droves. But, fire never waits for anyone or anything and based on my analysis in the marketplace, expect a five alarm...
View ArticleE-Learning Zombie Edition – includes trends and duds
I’ve been watching. Checking out the nooks and crannies. Looking into everything that is e-learning and I’ve seen a lot. Some great. Some bad and yes even a few that are downright frightening to the...
View ArticleBridge over troubled authoring tool waters
Let’s start of with a scenario. You go into an ice cream store. You look about and see a variety of flavors but can’t decide. You say to yourself, “I wonder if the Raisin Banana is any good?”. You are...
View ArticleE-Learning Takeaways
12-21-2012. For some people ominous times are ahead of us. For the rest of us, it isn’t, unless you see the latest takeaways as examples of what is to come or more importantly what hasn’t – which is...
View ArticleWhat I am hearing and seeing in E-Learning
I know it is only the first full week of February, but just in the past month, a lot has been going on. Most of it is positive, some is neutral, a few are negative (IMO). It comes from fellow readers...
View ArticleAuthoring Tool Market – What I am seeing
The magic 8 ball is a fun item to use. Sure, you have the same probability of forecasting by tossing a penny in the air, but for some folks the magic 8 ball is a soothsayer. For my forecasts, the magic...
View ArticleFour LMS Trends whose hype isn’t meeting reality
Let me ask you a question. What do these four items have in common? Miami Vice MTV Huey Lewis and the News – Now available at your local fair Parachute Pants All hyped up in the eighties. But let’s not...
View ArticleSeptember E-Learning Trends
If you aren’t aware the end of summer is upon us (depending on where you live in the world) and the beginning of the fall. It is the NFL, the end of baseball and the realization that you can now watch...
View ArticleAuthoring Tool Trends
I loved Lucky Charms cereal. Not the cereal per se, but the marshmallows. I would often dig through the box just to score all the marshmallows and then leave the box with the crummy stuff left behind...
View ArticleLatest Eight #LMS #Trends
With the amount of travel that I do, I’ve come to identify some trends. Having the hotel’s frequent awards program card gets you free internet. Even not having the card prior to arrival, but signing...
View ArticleAre we there yet? Latest Trends in the LMS/LP Industry
No time like the present to bring you the latest trends in the LMS and LP industry. I’d include LCMS but since there are like two top tier ones and then what is left of the rest, nothing to report –...
View ArticleLatest Negative E-Learning Trends
Trends. They will often bare fruit. Sometimes is a way we like, other times in a way we don’t. Who can forget the trend of seeing Ned Beatty in every movie out there? He was soon replaced by Morgan...
View ArticleLatest Positive Trends In E-Learning
How do we define brilliant? Is it the product with the most amazing capabilities? Is it how we think of ourselves when we figure out Snap Chat? Or when we come to realize that our boss is a...
View ArticleFindanlms.com and Trend Lines
Heyo! I know it has been a couple of weeks. Business Travel. Holidays. And yes, work – where does the time go? Just yesterday I was nine, and enjoying school in El Paso. I want an investigation. Is...
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