A major issue in the news lately is the “skills-gap” problem. A recent U.S. News article by Joyce Russell reported that despite a relatively high unemployment rate in the U.S., 80% of manufacturers are unable to find the right talent to fill open positions. For years, associations have played a critical role in addressing the [...]

So, you’re ready to take the initial plunge into eLearning, and you’re thinking of issuing a request for proposal (RFP). Great! Distributing an RFP is a wonderful way to “set the stage” for your ideal learning management system (LMS). If you have itemized your requirements in writing, you are increasing the odds of finding the [...]

How times change. Last post, Game-based learning > Mobile Apps, I recalled how our earliest application for mobile learning (mLearning) was dismissed by eLearning thought leaders in 2003. Back then, despite the growth of WEP-enabled cell phones and the Palm OS personal digital assistants (PDA), there just weren’t enough handsets out there to justify mLearning [...]

When it comes to Mobile Learning, or mLearning as it’s become known, it’s amazing how quickly attitudes change. Today, with the staggering growth of iPad and iPhone apps, the learning community is scrambling to apply the new technology. But that hasn’t always been the case. Back in 2002, my company released a product called “Knowledge [...]

Digitec is launching our new Knowledge Direct MEDICAL learning management system next week at the Association for Continuing Medical Education conference in New Orleans. If you’re attending the conference, please stop by our booth and say hello! I am also pleased to share with you an interview with Jeff Cobb of Tagoras. They are the [...]

If you are only using eLearning inside your organization – for employee training, compliance training, etc., you may be missing out on a valuable revenue generation resource. In a Brandon Hall 2004 independent research study, organizations who used eLearning for sales training showed an increase in sales by 30% and a Return on Investment (ROI) [...]

So in prepping for our upcoming session at the eLearning Guild Conference in Orlando, on April 15, I’ve been doing a bunch of research on the trends in learning management systems. I ran across a really good white paper by Ecto, titled: In search of the next generation online learning environment. The thing that really [...]

Okay, so I just did a speaking engagement at last week’s Training Tech Solutions conference in Salt Lake City. In years past, this was a great conference, and I had high hopes. They promoted it as the “Best of the Best,” recruiting past sessions that were rated by attendees as definitely worth seeing again. Unfortunately, [...]