In my last post How a New Training Process Scales Up Your Talent, I set the stage for a new training development process. You can click the link and read it for yourself, but I will also sum it up here... Designing & Developing Courses IS Expensive Since the beginning of my interest in instructional design, […]

You have been asking for some new features and we have been listening.  We have decided to change how learners are notified of updated courses and we have also updated reports to fit your needs better. We have added a feature that shows courses as updated only when you want to notify the learners that […]

Let me wish you a happy and productive new year from the Litmos blogging team! It's time to continue with our occasional manifesto on how to bring eLearning to your organization (and maximize the use of your LMS). This is a food-for-thought post on authoring tools. Many Litmos clients (and others tasked with magically converting […]

In August 2010, Ambient Insight released a new report called "The US Market for Mobile Products and Learning: 2009-2014 Forecast and Analysis" with the subheading 'US Takes the Lead in the Global Mobile Learning Market: Consumers and Healthcare Buyers Drive the Market.' It is a US-centric report and there are some seriously good stats in […]

An April 2010 independent report from UK organization IMC (UK) Learning Ltd called "Learning Management Systems – are organisations making the most of them?" has some blog worthy statistics in it that I've outlined below. The focus of the study was the use of a Learning Management System (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) in […]

Clark Quinn (@Quinnovator) and Richard Clark (@rdclark) presented session 201 at mLearnCon on "Context, Content and Collaboration: Keys to Successful mLearning". There was a lot of information covered in this session, but here are just a few of the takeaways: 63% of mobile workers prefer to use a smart phone for work-related tasks (iPass report […]

The #LearnX conference was on this week (June 9th - 10th) in Sydney at the Darling Harbour Convention Centre and was keynoted/opened by Lrnchat's very own Jane Bozarth, which was a real treat. I only attended the first day but found it to be action-packed with keynotes, breakout sessions and a great expo area. I […]

Today I read about a cool program in the UK called 'Health e-Working' developed by e-Learning for Healthcare. It is a resource made possible by the UK government's Health, Work and Well-being initiative to protect and improve the health and well-being of working age people. 'Health e-Working (which I think sounds quite catchy) offers six […]

There was an interesting article in the New York Times this week called 'Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls'. It reinforces the idea that due to usage demands, many phones are no longer being designed for phone calls but instead for web browsing, emailing, apps, games and text messages. It definitely makes […]

I've just read the "Association: Learning Management Systems" report released in October 2009 by Tagoras. The report was based on the responses of 11 LMS vendors (Avilar, Blackboard, Digitec Interactive, GeoLearning, iCohere, LearnSomething, Meridian KSI, Peach New Media, Results Direct, WBT Systems and Web Courseworks) and it has some interesting stats pertaining to average LMS […]