LXD Central

AUGUST 23, 2023

Why does one vendor quote $5,000 and another $20,000? Many vendors quote by the job, but as someone who has been pricing learning projects for the last thirteen years, I can assure you that behind the scenes someone is breaking that quote down into days and hours. How much should you pay for a learning solution? Hour 3 Hours Total 6.5

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eLearning Industry

JULY 30, 2020

From work samples to selling points, vendor portfolios and landing pages often induce information overwhelm. In this article, I share 8 things to look for to get top value for money. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 11, 2023

A vendor says “elearning course” ignoring that it really has a hyphen between the e and the l. I never understood why a vendor does this. Why can’t a vendor simply say video? A lot of vendors will list the publisher of the content, as if some learner says, “Holy Moly – you have IT skills?

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eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

ILT (Instructor Led Training – Workplace, even EdTech – K-12 and Higher Education). CBT Prior to online learning known then as WBT, and then the latter term of e-learning (vendors today, use it to refer to content that is online), there was CBT. It had something to do with ILT. CBT (Computer-Based Training).

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eLearning Industry

JULY 23, 2020

Here are 7 top tips to use Virtual Instructor-Led Training reviews and ratings for rapid vendor vetting. User opinions can help you identify potential pitfalls and standout selling points when outsourcing VILT. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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eLearning Industry

AUGUST 20, 2020

Read on for 7 tips to hire VILT vendors for test projects. You’ve whittled it down to your top 3 contenders. Which one is best for your bottom line? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

I focused on what makes WBT tick, what is the differences between WBT and ILT. They all were used to the ILT approach. They assumed that WBT, was like ILT but just online. . Because in their past, someone had followed that mantra and create courses based on ILT principles. It was ILT. ILT – the evil empire.

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Infopro Learning

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, the staffing challenges associated with varying needs for instructor-led training (ILT) can be a persistent problem. Clinton Wingrove: When selecting an outsourced vendor, such as Infopro Learning and others available , choosing an organization with a deep understanding of technology becomes crucial.

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eLearning 24-7

MAY 19, 2014

Are there vendors in the e-learning space who lack basic understanding around e-learning? Lastly, if the vendors, organizations and firms whose whole background, expertise and existence is tied to e-learning and they themselves are not fully understanding it, does this bode well for the industry as a whole? IMO, totally).

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eLearning 24-7

APRIL 28, 2014

” Seriously though, a lot of people ask me what vendors to see or what vendors I look at, etc. The vendors that I list below in my guide, are across the board. Hopefully this will be fine with ASTD, but if this “bullet” changes to the vendor’s site, you will know why. ILT focused solution.

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Questions – Each learning system vendor was asked a series of questions. I recognize that not everyone – i.e. vendor has the funds to invest heavily into the UI/UX, and thus I put that into context when reviewing a system. Here is the take vendors love to say, 1. Based on their responses, points were awarded.

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eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A classroom for ILT. Today, very few vendors offer this depth. Ditto on the 3rd party content, including one vendor who figured out how to create a video with bookmarks and chapters that streamed without issue on a 56K modem.  Vendors expect use cases. The challenge hits on what the vendor considers Enterprise to mean.

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eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 11, 2024

Even HR who provide training, regardless of whether it is ILT or e-learning, think from their perspective, not the person and people receiving it. But how does that help the frontline worker when it comes to online training, even if you do a combo with ILT (boo) and OJT (potential double boo). Do it once with ILT and OJT = then what?

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eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 31, 2023

Development), which most folks in L&D have anyway, OR if you are T&D (Talent Development, which most vendors are not using as a term, even though it exists) OR HR if you are doing some Performance, then performance management is part of your domain. If you are in L&D or have a background in OD (Org. We are all about employees.

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eLearning 24-7

JULY 27, 2022

When I was putting together this post, I knew it would not be as simple as say, this is cohort-based learning, this is why it is so amazing, and why vendors are jumping to it, as well as folks in L&D. Again, I find vendors even in EdTech who are unaware what constitutes SBL. It is not as simple.

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Talented Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In years past, the same dozen or so vendors competed for all the LMS market share. Nearly every vendor earned its bread and butter by selling to employee-minded buyers in HR. We have spent the last three years meeting more than 125 vendors — learning who they are, what they do, why they are unique, and who their customers are.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

Managing Resources For Instructor Led Training (ILT). One of the key features of an Instructor Led Training (ILT) program is its ability to have complete interaction between the trainers and the students. online prior to ILT session class. The end of an ILT session does not necessarily mean the end of learning for the learners.

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eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 17, 2021

Overall though when tied into the other capabilities, and responses to my inquiries – covering a variety of questions and understanding the vendor’s response or lack thereof, will identify where they slide. I can not stress this enough, if you are basing your decision on the vendor’s client list, you are going to be unhappy.

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Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Innovation was stagnant and most vendor effort was invested in stealing customers from one another. The cloud enables new LMS vendors to create and support one product that all customers use providing economies of scale in research, customer support and required investment capital. The 2015 Talented Learning LMS Vendor Award Winners

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Folio3

APRIL 14, 2023

A blended learning course’s instructor-led training (ILT) components allow learners to receive individualized attention and pose questions about ideas that need clarification. LMS vendors are aware of this. Even in-office or hybrid workers may find it difficult to leave their desks for ILT. Feature No. Feature No.

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eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Seriously though, there were plenty of vendors making their first debut at the show, and that went from great to, uh, yeah. The biggest aspect, well, at least from my writings about the show, and vendors who need a course in how to do a trade show with you know prospects walking about; was something I will get to shortly.

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 29, 2020

From a vendor perspective there was a huge impact, but what was odd, is that some vendors still are living in the past, as though, this is a minor blip, and in 2021, everything will go back as it was – corporate wise that is. Sorry to disappoint – but it won’t. . that needed a system. Oh, and a huge chunk stinks.

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Creativ Technologies

JANUARY 27, 2022

The business can ensure that its e-learning vendor has prepared the apt JIT resource keeping in mind the learning methodology of the employee, whether it’s text-based or visual. You can also schedule live sessions for employees as per their ILT schedules.

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eLearning 24-7

MARCH 23, 2020

This line not only is continuing, but you can expect to see a lot more vendors reducing their price per seat/per year in the coming months. You are unlikely to see this in the setup fee (if a vendor charges), rather it will come in the form of seat pricing. Forecast #3 – ILT is replaced with Digital Coaching.

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Training Orchestra

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Functionalities, scale, vendor capabilities and customer support, integration… it is sometimes hard to consider and appropriately weigh all the criteria to assess all the different solutions out there. LMS’s do not enable efficient Instructor-Led Training (ILT) and back-office management: ILT represents 70% of training dollars.

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eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Oh, and not the first vendor I’ve seen this route, but that was more than a decade ago. Well, I guess for ILT, and even then as time has evolved, it hasn’t. There are vendors who pitch they have it, and there are folks who oversee L&D who still believe in it. One Term that Should be Kicked to the Curb.

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eLearning 24-7

MARCH 6, 2023

There are already a couple of vendors, in the works with it, and at least one, Firmwater, who says they have added it to their learning system (I have been promised a demo). Thus vendors, will need to add it, regardless of whether they the vendor has hired generative engineers/developers or went third party. Those were the days.

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Turbo – which vendors in our space tend to go to) and that’s it. I don’t care if you are using an Enterprise version of an LLM, AI bias can occur Hallucinations – One vendor in our space, identifies it as a mistake (when folks are starting to use the generative AI. Not an ILT session. into an LLM.

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eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 25, 2024

They want ILT (ugh). Maybe You may come with an instructional design background OR at least understand ADDIE to create your online courses and even ILT (which was what ADDIE was designed for, along with those rotten and worthless manuals nobody reads). You They want you to do whatever is necessary to make that happen. They Start at it.

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KnowledgeCity

MARCH 2, 2022

However, there are numerous other vendors who offer their own training courses as well. If your company doesn’t offer in-house formal training, or if you choose to hire a third party vendor, you need to make sure that the training is both effective and cost effective. Top IT Courses to Offer Employees. In 2020, that fell to 20%.

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eLearning 24-7

JULY 11, 2022

Look today, at the number of folks who still hang onto ILT. It was clear that not even LXP vendors (as a whole) knew – which explained why they targeted L&D, ignoring the other monster in the room, training. LXP vendors loved to push the notion that LMSs (the dominant learning system type) only provided formal learning.

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Compliance Training Metrics vendor Learning System 86

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 21, 2023

If they were a vendor who played in EdTech (K-12, HE) but also played into corporate and did so, not just by having clients find them, but actively through marketing, they were considered too. Strictly If the vendor was a custom shop building a system, off say Moodle or whatever code they are using that is open source? Strictly EdTech?

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eLearning 24-7

MAY 16, 2023

It wouldn’t surprise me if the majority of vendors who go with Gen-AI (and eventually, they all must, or they will be too far behind), use GPT (by OpenAI). I’m already seeing the sidestep I wrote about just a week ago, in order for vendors to reduce cost (those tokens). Maybe today it is ChatGPT (cheaper token-wise).

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eLearning 24-7

JUNE 15, 2023

In my upcoming NexGen Leader Pack (coming in late July), the majority are LMS vendors. Because, ILT, on-site, was the only way, the main way to learn (excluding the guides nobody read) didn’t and still doesn’t offer that. The first vendor to have geolocation in their mobile app? LMS vendor. Nor at DevLearn.

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eLearning 24-7

APRIL 8, 2022

Just as in 2021, vendors were seeded on two sides – let’s call one side – “A”, and the other side “B” These are seeding not rankings. I always hear from folks saying, well so and so doesn’t have this vendor, but you do, and thus, this and that. Bounce into the 2022 Bracket. Region A). #1

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 1, 2007

Like many industries today, there are significant changes going on for Instructor-Led Training (ILT) and Off-the-Shelf Content Vendors today. This causes several problems for ILT and Content Vendors. The bottom line is that many vendors are struggling to determine their direction moving forward.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 3, 2007

Since I'm likely not going to be blogging for about a week starting Friday, I thought I'd get an early jump on this month's Big Question from LCB - ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should They Do? I know that I'm probably not helping define a specific enough game plan for any vendor and maybe this isn't practical for some people.

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