That is a question that is becoming more complicated with the emergence of each new LMS, LCMS or course delivery system.  When talking to training partners looking for a platform, the first three questions always revolve around cost, content support and license structure.  Finding the right platform for your business depends on making an accurate comparison of products in these three areas.  A few things you might want to consider in each area include:

A learning management system (LMS) has become a common fixture in most mid to large businesses. After all, how can a business be expected to track and measure staff skills and set career goals without systems in place to orchestrate tracking and delivery? The focus of most learning management systems has been to create an ecosystem for organizations that manage all aspects of staff training such as current job skills and those needed to ready them for advancement. Skills assessments, career track planning and soft skills training are all standard fare in these products.

A recent study conducted by the US department of education concluded that digital learning, most specifically online learning, produced better results in learners than live classroom training.

DigitalChalk recently released the latest version of our Web Service programming interface.  This allows external software system to access DigitalChalk via a secure connection to execute certain functions.  Right now it's being used by DigitalChalk customers to:

1.  Automatically send user accounts in other software systems into DigitalChalk

2.  Register students automatically into courses when they make purchases or fill out forms on the clients website or other software system

 There is no question that live online training is an essential part of effective training delivery, but many organizations default to live online training as their only resource for elearning delivery.  There are a number of distinct benefits to using course content that is prerecorded and delivered on-demand.  

Recently DigitalChalk launched the Einstein version 3.0 release. On Monday August 10th they are announcing the availability of a free instructor account that let's anyone setup an account and build courses in a privately branded learning site. The free account setup option just showed up on the DigitalChalk homepage so you should be able to go register today.

Almost every time that I speak, I can count on being asked about where the internet is going and what technology will be the next "big thing." Obviously there are a ton of people that would capitalize on that if anyone could predict the future. Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and angel investors spend their days trying to decipher and figure out the answer to that question. It is clearly a tough question.