Vendors of Learning Management and E-learning Products

Learning Management Vendors, April 2013 By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com Vendors of Learning Management and E-learning Products By Don McIntosh, Ph.D. (2013) For Trimeritus eLearning Solutions Inc. http://www.trimeritus.com Updated April 10, 2013 1 Learning Management Vendors, April 2013 Table of Contents By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com Vendors of Learning Management and E-learning Products Table of Contents Introduction............................................................................................................................................... 3 Learning Management Systems (LMSs)......................................................................................................5 Corporate Learning Management Systems (LMSs)..................................................................................... 8 Rapid Learning Management Systems.................................................................................43 Learning Content Management Systems (LCMSs).................................................................................... 46 Course Authoring Tools............................................................................................................................ 54 Virtual Classrooms...................................................................................................................................81 Generic (off-the-shelf) eLearning Courseware Vendors ........................................................................... 89 Education Learning Management Systems (ELMS)................................................................................. 109 Commercial Education LMSs.................................................................................................110 Open Source Education LMSs...............................................................................................123 Additional resources:............................................................................................................................. 130 Some unique, hard to categorize solutions: ...........................................................................136 Social networking/learning tools.............................................................................................142 Big Data integration, analysis and reporting tools ..................................................................143 Some tools for adding interactivity to courses........................................................................148 Website building tools ................................................................................................................ 148 Images......................................................................................................................................... 149 Image Editing (mostly free)........................................................................................................ 149 Video............................................................................................................................................ 150 Sound........................................................................................................................................... 151 Screen Capture........................................................................................................................... 152 Lecture Capture Systems.......................................................................................................... 158 Free Lesson Plans for Teachers ............................................................................................... 158 Consulting/custom development companies..........................................................................162 Apparently discontinued or changed products ...................................................................................... 167 Corporate LMS.......................................................................................................................167 Course Authoring ...................................................................................................................179 Virtual Classrooms.................................................................................................................185 Generic Courseware Vendors................................................................................................187 Education Learning Management Systems............................................................................188 Open Source Learning Management Systems.......................................................................190 Other......................................................................................................................................190 2 Learning Management Vendors, April 2013 LMSs By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com Introduction “Three-quarters of companies `implement e-learning`.” From http://www.virtual-college.co.uk/news/Threequarters-of-companies-implement-elearning-newsitems-801215527.aspx. Nov. 19, 2011. E-learning has become a way of life for many businesses. Figures for K-12 school systems and universities are not available but I believe the adoption rate for them is similar. It has become an essential channel for both formal and informal learning. In 2012, corporate training was a $200 billion industry. ELearning represented $56 biliion of that and is expected to double by 2015. The LMS market alone is expected to grow to nearly $2 billion in 2013. This is a list of as many vendors of e-learning software as I can identify. It is not possible to have a comprehensive and completely up-to-date list. Companies go in and out of business and are purchased by other companies. Re-branding is a regular occurrence. Many corporations and universities have built their own proprietary systems and have made them available only in a limited way if at all. I have included those that are commercially and readily available. The focus is on those available in English and for which information is available on the World Wide Web. As a result, there are numerous tools in other languages not listed here. The list evolves monthly as I learn of new products and changes. The list may have outlived its usefulness, not because of the reported “Death of the LMS” (see also http://www.tonybates.ca/2012/04/04/why-learning-management-systems-are-not-going-away/) but because the list has gotten so long and because the evolution of the systems with social media and integration with other systems has made the category very messy. They are listed alphabetically by the name of the company in the categories:  Corporate Learning Management Systems (LMS)  Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS)  CourseAuthoring Tools  Virtual Classrooms  Generic (off-the-shelf) eLearning Courseware Vendors  Education Learning Management Systems (ELMS). The term “Course Management Systems” is often a term applied to Learning Management Systems designed for educational environments but it is easily confused with Content Management Systems. The term Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is also used.  Apparently discontinued or changed products. Change happens. Companies go in and out of business. Mergers take place. This list includes changes that I have identified. It is included for those who may know products by their previous names and are curious about their status. Several vendors have complete suites of these tools so are listed several times. The terms above are not mutually exclusive and different vendors may use different terms to describe their products. Some products were originally known by one name and have been purchased by other companies or changed names. Sometimes the products are 3 Learning Management Vendors, April 2013 LMSs By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com listed under both names. I have tried to provide hyperlinks within this document to help sort out mergers, acquisitions and related products. Listings are alphabetical by company name. If you only know the name of the product, try a search. In this revision of the list, you will find discontinued and changed vendors at the end (p. 74). Partly because of the plethora of products offered and the state of the economy, there has been a good deal of turmoil in the industry. The top vendors in the market are highlighted in yellow. According to Bersin & Associates (2009), “The six largest LMS product companies constitute approximately 50% of the market.” The report does not specify which six these are but the largest vendors in the corporate market are  SumTotal (including GeoLearning)  Saba  Meridian  Outstart (now owned by Kenexa/IBM)  Plateau (purchased by SuccessFactors which was then purchased by SAP)  Learn.com (purchased by Taleo which was then purchased by Oracle in Feb. 2012) The largest LMSs in the education sector are  Blackboard,  Desire2Learn  Moodle (open source)  Instructure Canvas (gaining traction on the above) Canadian vendors are indicated by this highlight. 4 Learning Management Vendors, April 2013 LMSs By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com Learning Management Systems (LMSs) Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are included in two categories: 1. Corporate 2. Education LMSs manage learners and facilities, launch and track online learning and keep records of the activity. Corporate LMSs usually include registration and management of classroom instruction as well as eLearning management and delivery. Some corporate LMSs add e-Commerce capability and may include regulatory compliance, competency, performance, human capital and talent management which link closely to Human Resources functions. Corporate LMSs tend to emphasize the management of asynchronous (self-directed) online learning because there is no assumption that an instructor will always be present. Course authoring and content management are not normally included in a corporate LMS except as part of a suite that includes learning content management (LCMS). Educational institutions are usually already well equipped for registration and management of classroom instruction so Education LMSs tend to be primarily for online learning and they usually provide course authoring and some content management features. Consequently they sometimes call themselves LCMSs. They are also called Course Management Systems (CMS) or (less commonly today) Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). They also emphasize communication and collaboration features. They are generally built on the assumption that an instructor is always available to build course content and to communicate with students. This way of categorizating LMSs is a bit arbitrary and there is a good deal of overlap between them. Sometimes it has more to do with the way the vendors market their products than the features they offer. Organizations looking for LMSs should not ignore the possibilities of using an LMS primarily focused on the other sector. For example, corporate LMSs can be very useful for educational institutions with a business focus such as distance education units offering courses for sale. Open source products tend to be most appropriate for educational institutions but many business enterprises have found them useful as well. To add to the confusion, many educational institutions and corporations brand their systems differently within their organizations. For example, the University ofAkron calls its implementation of Desire2Learn “Springboard!”. This can make it difficult to find out if an organization is using a commercial LMS or one they built for themselves. Common features of Learning Management Systems:  Online (eLearning) course launching and tracking.  Classroom instruction management is included in most full-fledged corporate LMSs but not in all and is not normally included in education LMSs.  Blended learning is the ability to manage course which mix online and classroom instruction and is included in the more ambitious systems.  Talent management includes tools for recruitment, performance management, compensation and benefits, succession, retention and career planning. They are included in several of the most ambitious corporate systems but are not normally included in Education LMSs.  Communication and collaboration (Web 2.0). These tools have long been 5 ... - tailieumienphi.vn