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Stewart RogersOct 28, 20163 min read

Educause 2016 Day 2: Highlights and Takeaways

Lambda is at Educause this week! Since the launch of our LMS reporting and analytics ...
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Stewart RogersOct 26, 20162 min read

Educause 2016: Day 1 Highlights & Takeaways

Lambda is at Educause this week! Since the launch of our LMS reporting and analytics ...
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Nimritta P.Oct 18, 20162 min read

7 Must Have LMS Features: #7 - Open Source

The LMS landscape enhances training effectiveness for organizations in various markets, ...
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Nimritta P.Oct 11, 20162 min read

7 Must Have LMS Features: #6 - Integration

The LMS landscape enhances training effectiveness for organizations in various markets, ...
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Nimritta P.Oct 6, 20163 min read

Challenges faced by Higher Education Institutes & How to Solve Them

Educause recently published the NMC Horizon Report: 2016 Higher Education Edition, ...
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Nimritta P.Oct 4, 20162 min read

7 Must Have LMS Features: #5 - Reporting & Analytics

The LMS landscape enhances training effectiveness for organizations in various markets, ...
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Nimritta P.Sep 27, 20161 min read

7 Must Have LMS Features: #4 - Gamification

The LMS landscape enhances training effectiveness for organizations in various markets, ...
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Nimritta P.Sep 25, 20163 min read

The Landscape of Learning Technologies in 2016

The Brandon Hall Group issued a study on the Learning Technology landscape of 2016. The ...
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Nimritta P.Sep 23, 20162 min read

New Features & Improvements Coming in Totara 9.0

The long awaited release of Totara 9.0 is finally on its way! This is the first Totara ...
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Nimritta P.Sep 20, 20161 min read

7 Must Have LMS Features: #3 - Engaging Content

The LMS landscape enhances training effectiveness for organizations in various markets, ...
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Nimritta P.Sep 16, 20163 min read

Why Your LMS Theme Matters

In a report published by Brandon Hall Group this year, it was revealed that 88% of ...
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Lambda SolutionsSep 15, 20162 min read

Adaptive Learning: Personalized Training for Every Learner

Everyone learns differently - this is now common knowledge. The aspects of traditional ...
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Nimritta P.Sep 13, 20162 min read

7 Must Have LMS Features: #2 - Theming, Brand, and Design

The LMS landscape enhances training effectiveness for organizations in various markets, ...
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Nimritta P.Sep 8, 20163 min read

Long-Term Impact Trends in Higher Education

Educause recently published the NMC Horizon Report: 2016 Higher Education Edition, ...
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Nimritta P.Sep 6, 20161 min read

7 Must Have LMS Features: #1 - Communication Channels

The LMS landscape enhances training effectiveness for organizations in various markets, ...
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Colin SteinAug 31, 20163 min read

2016 LMS Market Overview

The learning management system (LMS) market is growing fast and it doesn’t look like its ...
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Jim YupangcoAug 31, 20163 min read

Calculating the ROI for an LMS: Open Source vs. Proprietary

Open Source vs. Proprietary Learning Management Systems We're looking at the key cost ...
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Jim YupangcoAug 30, 20162 min read

Calculating the Return on Investment (ROI) for your LMS

If you’re adopting a learning management system (LMS), then chances are you will need to ...
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Jim YupangcoAug 8, 20162 min read

Flipped Classrooms - Corporate Training and eLearning

It’s an indisputable fact that online learning has been a disruptive force in the face of ...
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Nimritta P.Aug 2, 20161 min read

Invest in your Online Training Programs - Move Your LMS to the Cloud

If the benefits of cloud-hosted LMS solutions vs in-house instances weren’t clear, here’s ...
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Colin SteinJul 25, 20163 min read

Operationalizing Learning Intelligence

Last week, we wrote a blog about Understanding Learning Intelligence - what it is, the ...
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Colin SteinJul 12, 20162 min read

Understanding Learning Intelligence

In the early days of nearly every software innovation, there tends to be a huge spike in ...
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Nimritta P.Jun 15, 20162 min read

The Learning Analytics Market to Increase by 25% by 2020

“Research and Markets” recently generated a report that predicts the learning analytics ...
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Nimritta P.Jun 12, 20164 min read

5 Tips for Creating Effective & Engaging eLearning

Creating online courses is one thing, creating courses that are both effective and ...
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Ben YoungJun 8, 20161 min read

[UPDATED] Top 5 Moodle™ Plugins for Engaged Learners

There are hundreds of custom third-party Moodle plugins available through Moodle, and ...
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Nimritta P.Jun 6, 20162 min read

Metrics for Measuring Employee Engagement

Employee Engagement has a direct correlation to business results, something that business ...
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Ben YoungMay 25, 20162 min read

Moodle™ Plugins to Track Time Spent Learning in Your LMS

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Nimritta P.May 20, 20162 min read

Top 10 Improvements in Moodle 3.1

Big news in the Moodle world, as the release of Moodle 3.1 is almost here! Set for Monday ...
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Lambda SolutionsMay 18, 20162 min read

Corporate eLearning Trends

The worldwide market for eLearning is has grown significantly over the past 10 years and ...
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Nimritta P.May 11, 20164 min read

5 Tips to Leverage eLearning in your Organization with Moodle™

Moodle isn’t just for the higher education sector, it’s used by countless organizations ...
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Lambda SolutionsMay 4, 201620 min read

Blended Learning vs Flipped Classroom: Which Is More Effective?

The difference between flipped and blended learning is that blended learning creates a ...
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Lambda SolutionsMay 2, 20164 min read

6 Things Your LMS Should Be Able to Do

With the LMS landscape changing as quickly as it has been, there are a ton of new ...
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Nimritta P.Apr 28, 20164 min read

[UPDATED] What You Need to Know About Mobile Learning with Moodle™

The UN recently reported that the number of people who own mobile phones outnumber the ...
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Lambda SolutionsApr 26, 20163 min read

The 4 Levels of ROI in eLearning

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Nimritta P.Apr 21, 20162 min read

AWS compliance with HIPAA

If you're in the healthcare industry, and use AWS cloud hosting services, you'll be happy ...
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Nimritta P.Apr 19, 20163 min read

The Evolution of Competency Based Training in Healthcare

How can we prove that the training provided by to healthcare clinicians is improving ...
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Nimritta P.Apr 14, 20162 min read

Using Data to Create a Better Learning Experience

The first step to creating a better learning experience is to understand where it stands ...
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Nimritta P.Apr 7, 20162 min read

What Does Competency-Based Learning in Healthcare Look Like?

To ensure the efficiency of their manufacturing processes, Toyota developed a ...
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Nimritta P.Apr 6, 20162 min read

Top 5 Benefits of Online Learning

According to enrollment information gathered from the Institute of Education Sciences, ...
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Lambda SolutionsMar 30, 20162 min read

Healthcare Learning Management System Survey Results

We issued a survey targeting professionals from the healthcare world to gain insight into ...
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Lambda SolutionsMar 15, 20163 min read

3 Ways to Use Video in Moodle™

One of the greatest benefits of eLearning, is the ability to incorporate multimedia like ...
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Stewart RogersMar 8, 20162 min read

5 Types of Analytics Used in Higher Education

One of the reasons learning analytics is so popular, is because it has the ability to ...
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Nimritta P.Mar 1, 20162 min read

Learning Analytics & Adaptive Learning Shaping Future of Higher Ed

The New Media Consortium recently published a report on the technology trends and ...
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Nimritta P.Feb 24, 20163 min read

The Current Landscape of Online Learning in Higher Education

As online learning rapidly expands its reach, there is a growing investement in research ...
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Ben YoungFeb 16, 20163 min read

Top Moodle Plugins of 2015

With hundreds of Moodle plugins to choose from, where do you begin? To make the decision ...
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Nimritta P.Feb 10, 20162 min read

Blended Learning Models for Improving Reading Proficiency in K-12

One major challenge teachers face, is how to effectively and efficiently teach students ...
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Nimritta P.Jan 22, 20163 min read

Evaluating the Impact of eLearning - Kirkpatrick's Model

We teamed up with Limestone Learning to deliver a webinar on Measuring the Value of ...
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Lambda SolutionsJan 14, 20161 min read

Moodle 3.0 Comes Equipped with PHP 7.0 Compatibility

Wanting another reason to upgrade to Moodle 3.0? Announced just before Christmas, Moodle ...
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Lambda SolutionsJan 13, 20161 min read

The LMS Reporting and Learning Analytics Gap

Based on feedback from a few of our reporting webinars, it’s become apparent to us that ...
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Nimritta P.Jan 5, 20162 min read

2016's Top 10 Big Disruptions in HR Technologies - Part 2

Last week we published Part 1 of a summary of the Bersin by Deloitte's report on the Top ...
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Nimritta P.Dec 31, 20152 min read

2016's Top 10 Big Disruptions in HR Technologies - Part 1

The corporate world saw many changes and innovations in 2015, which begs the question - ...
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Nimritta P.Dec 30, 20151 min read

Lambda Solutions Top 5 Blog Posts of 2015

As 2015 comes to a close, find our roundup of the top blog posts for the year. We wish ...
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Stewart RogersDec 29, 2015< 1 min read

New Release - Advanced LMS Reporting & Analytics

We are releasing the latest version of our LMS reporting and analytics solution! Lambda ...
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Lambda SolutionsNov 18, 20154 min read

6 Things to Look for in a High-Value LMS

If you are looking to implement a new LMS, or you are planning a LMS migration, you may ...
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Lambda SolutionsNov 13, 20152 min read

Why Moodle is the World’s Best LMS

With 68 million users worldwide (larger than UK’s population!), Moodle is hands down the ...
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Lambda SolutionsNov 6, 20152 min read

The 3 LMS Features that Increase Employee Engagement

We’ve written before about the pervasive issue that is stagnating economic growth in the ...
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Nimritta P.Nov 2, 20154 min read

The Future of Totara LMS

A lot has been going on over at Totara Learning this summer so we decided to interview ...
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Lambda SolutionsOct 27, 20154 min read

Why Blended Learning is Effective

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Lambda SolutionsOct 13, 20152 min read

Moodle™ Plugins – The Face-to-Face Plugin

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Lambda SolutionsOct 9, 20152 min read

Blended Learning Outperforms Non-Blended Classrooms

The recent report, 2013-2014 Results—Personalized Learning Drives Student Achievement, ...
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Lambda SolutionsSep 28, 20152 min read

[UPDATED] Making a Profit from Moodle ™

Time and effort put into the development of eLearning programs are significant. This has ...
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Lambda SolutionsSep 24, 20151 min read

Customer Relationship Management

Customer Relationship Management System Integrations Customer Relationship Management ...
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Lambda SolutionsSep 22, 20151 min read

Competency Based Training in Moodle

When developing a Competency Based Training Program with the Moodle Outcomes Module, ...
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Lambda SolutionsSep 10, 20151 min read

Webinar Features & Integrations

Moodle Adobe Connect This Moodle LMS integration provides seamless use of Adobe Connect ...
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Nimritta P.Sep 3, 20151 min read

Lambda Solutions will be attending DevLearn 2015 Conference & Expo

Lambda is heading down south to Las Vegas at the end of the month, to attend the DevLearn ...
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Nimritta P.Aug 21, 20151 min read

Moodle's Advanced Features: Moodle Mobile

Mobile Moodle learning can refer to two things - mobility of learning (i.e. learning on ...
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Nimritta P.Aug 19, 20152 min read

Moodle's Advanced Features: Communicating in Moodle

A steady stream of communication is essential for learner engagement. There are a few ...
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Nimritta P.Aug 18, 20151 min read

Advanced Moodle Features: Multimedia Capabilities

One of the greatest benefits of eLearning, is the ability to incorporate multimedia. ...
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Ben YoungAug 14, 20153 min read

Moodle Installation Guide Pt 1 | Planning for Success

Introduction Here’s the scenario: You are about to setup your Moodle LMS installation, ...
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Lambda SolutionsAug 10, 20152 min read

Why Governments want Open Source Software

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Lambda SolutionsAug 4, 20152 min read

Keeping Moodle Innovative with the POET Working Group

Six Companies Form the Partners of Open Source Educational Technologies (POET) Working ...
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Lambda SolutionsJul 27, 20152 min read

Corporate e-Learning Gamification: A Case Study

We've previously discussed how gamification is changing corporate training. But what does ...
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Ben YoungJul 16, 20151 min read

How to Enroll Students into a Moodle Course

Once you have created your Moodle course the next step is to enroll your learners into ...
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Nimritta P.Jul 14, 20151 min read

Totara Cloud on its Way for Small Learning Environments

Totara recently announced the launch of Totara Cloud, which will become available later ...
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Ben YoungJul 13, 20151 min read

How to Set up a Moodle course

Knowing how to set up Moodle courses is essential for any and all Moodle LMS ...
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Nimritta P.Jun 29, 20151 min read

Saylor Academy | I Heart Moodle Series

How Saylor Academy Makes a Positive Impact with Moodle A strong, and well-informed ...
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Lambda SolutionsJun 23, 20151 min read

Solving the Reporting Problem in Moodle & Totara LMS

Research from the Brandon Hall Group highlights the fact that LMS Reporting is the number ...
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Lambda SolutionsJun 18, 20154 min read

10 Ways Moodle is Used for Business

When Moodle learning management system launched in 2002 for K-12 and Higher Education ...
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Lambda SolutionsJun 17, 20151 min read

OpenSesame Content Integration with Totara Learning Management Systems

We are pleased to now have the capability to integrate content from OpenSesame into ...
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Nimritta P.Jun 11, 20151 min read

Luke's Place | I Heart Moodle Series

How Luke's Place Makes a Positive Impact with Moodle Luke’s Place is a centre devoted to ...
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Lambda SolutionsJun 10, 20151 min read

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin| I Heart Moodle Series

How Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Reduced Bullying in Schools by 49% with Moodle The ...
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Lambda SolutionsJun 9, 20152 min read

Adoptive Families of BC | I Heart Moodle Series

How Adoptive Families Association of BC Makes a Positive Impact with Moodle The use of ...
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Nimritta P.Jun 8, 20151 min read

Why You Should Upgrade to Moodle 2.9

We announced last month that Moodle 2.9 was released on May 18th. With this new version ...
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Nimritta P.Jun 8, 2015< 1 min read

Share your Story in the I Heart Moodle Contest!

Moodle is the leading open source LMS, with a community that occupies regions across the ...
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Nimritta P.May 12, 20152 min read

Top 9 Improvements Coming with Moodle 2.9

We announced last week that Moodle 2.9 is on its way. The enhancements made in 2.9 are in ...
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Nimritta P.Apr 28, 20153 min read

How MOOC's Can Benefit Both Students, and Post-Secondary Institutions

There’s a lot of discussion around “mooks” these days, but few people actually seem to ...
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Nimritta P.Apr 20, 2015< 1 min read

Lambda Solutions Will Be Attending ATD 2015

Lambda Solutions will be attending the ATD 2015 International Conference & Exposition ...
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Nimritta P.Apr 15, 20152 min read

Industry-Leading LMS vs. Talent Management LMS

First, what is the difference between learning management and talent management? A common ...
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Lambda SolutionsApr 13, 20151 min read

Lambda Analytika Reporting for Learning Management Systems

We are pleased to announce the launch of Lambda Analytika to the market. Lambda Analytika ...
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Lambda SolutionsApr 7, 20153 min read

Online Learning to Solve US Teacher Shortage

Current education reform debate in the US centers around the dilemma that high-quality ...
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Nimritta P.Apr 2, 20155 min read

Top 10 Global Human Capital Trends for 2015 | Part 2

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Nimritta P.Mar 27, 20155 min read

Top 10 Global Human Capital Trends for 2015 | Part 1

Deloitte University Press has released their Guide to Global Human Capital Trends for ...
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Lambda SolutionsMar 17, 20153 min read

LMS Market Overview | 2015

The learning management system (LMS) market is growing fast and it doesn’t look like its ...
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Nimritta P.Mar 5, 20152 min read

6 Expert Insights into Corporate Learning Trends

It’s becoming evident that predictive trends are beneficial to the e-learning industry ...
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Lambda SolutionsFeb 18, 20153 min read

6 Reasons Why Everyone Loves Moodle™ 2.8

Now that Moodle 2.8 is on its third minor release (Moodle 2.8.3)—we’ve had a solid ...
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Nimritta P.Feb 17, 20152 min read

5 Tips to Inspire and Engage Online Learners

One of the major challenges LMS administrators often face with online learning is keeping ...
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Nimritta P.Feb 12, 20152 min read

Mythbusters, the Blended Learning Edition

Blended learning isn’t exactly new - different technologies have been slowly trickling ...
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Lambda SolutionsFeb 10, 20152 min read

[UPDATED] How to Use the Face-to-Face Plugin for Blended Learning in Moodle™

The Face-to-face plugin for Moodle makes it easy to incorporate blended learning into ...
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Lambda SolutionsJan 28, 20154 min read

2015's Top 10 Trends in HR, Talent and Learning Strategies—Part 2

Last week we summarized the top 5 trends in talent, HR and workplace learning strategies ...
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Lambda SolutionsJan 19, 20154 min read

2015's Top 10 Trends in HR, Talent and Learning Strategies—Part 1

If you share our enthusiasm for the quickly changing work world, you will be keen to ...
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Lambda SolutionsDec 23, 20143 min read

5 Insights into Workplace Social Learning Technologies

The evolution of social technologies from Yahoo in 1995 to Facebook in 2004 has greatly ...
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Lambda SolutionsDec 16, 20142 min read

2014’s Top three Innovations in eLearning Pedagogy

The Open University recently released a report on the new innovations in teaching, ...
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Lambda SolutionsDec 12, 20143 min read

Getting Started with eLearning Gamification - Components

Now that you have a deep understanding of how Gamification and Game Based Learning ...
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Lambda SolutionsDec 9, 20144 min read

3 Tips to Succeed as an Instructional Designer

In today’s growing e-learning market, instructional designers are critical in helping ...
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Lambda SolutionsDec 5, 20142 min read

Gamification vs. Game Based Learning in eLearning

Co-hosted with Limestone Learning, our webinar: Gamify your eLearning! 6 Ways to ...
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Lambda SolutionsDec 2, 20143 min read

Start-ups a Key Contributor in the Rapidly Growing eLearning Market

There has been an upward trend in the past 10 years in both the growth of internet use ...
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Lambda SolutionsNov 26, 20143 min read

The Top 10 Benefits of Online Training Part 2

Yesterday we introduced the first five benefits of online training and today we will ...
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Lambda SolutionsNov 24, 20143 min read

The Top 10 Benefits of Online Training Part 1

As organizations begin to fully recover from the recession and move back to paths of ...
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Lambda SolutionsNov 20, 20143 min read

Mobile Learning: How Advanced is your Organization?

Mobile learning—if your organization hasn’t begun to think about it, research indicates ...
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Lambda SolutionsNov 19, 20147 min read

Rising Costs of Healthcare & the Role of eLearning Technology

Dr. Neel Shah, MD, MPP Founder and Executive Director of Costs of CareAssistant Professor ...
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Lambda SolutionsNov 14, 20143 min read

Why Top Organizations are Choosing Open Source LMS?

Depending on which side of the fence you fall on, you are either in favor of open source ...
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Lambda SolutionsNov 13, 20142 min read

Gamification in eLearning: What is it and Why do I want it?

We are excited to share an amazing presentation with you—Gamify your eLearning! 6 Ways to ...
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Lambda SolutionsNov 12, 20143 min read

The Top 10 Human Capital Trends of 2014 Part 2

Last week we introduced the first four human capital trends of 2014 that were uncovered ...
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Lambda SolutionsNov 7, 20142 min read

The Top 10 Human Capital Trends of 2014

It is hard to believe that we are already nearing the end of 2014! Looking back there has ...
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Lambda SolutionsNov 5, 20147 min read

Shai Reshef: Changing the World through Disruptive Education

"When you educate one person you can change lives, and when you education many...you can ...
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Lambda SolutionsNov 4, 20142 min read

Everything you need to know about SCORM

In our webinar last week we recognized that the majority of attendees came to learn more ...
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Lambda SolutionsOct 30, 20142 min read

Navigating the LMS and TMS Market in 2015

Recent survey results from eLearning! and Government eLearning! Magazines indicate that ...
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Lambda SolutionsOct 21, 20143 min read

5 ways the Healthcare Cloud is Improving Patient Outcomes

According to a study from HIMMS Analytics, 83% of healthcare provider organizations are ...
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Lambda SolutionsOct 17, 20142 min read

2015’s Top 10 Disruptive Innovations in HR Technology Part 2

Yesterday we provided an overview of the first five disruptive innovations in HR ...
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Lambda SolutionsOct 16, 20143 min read

2015’s Top 10 Disruptive Innovations in HR Technology

Less than a week ago Bersin by Deloitte published a 22-page report, HR Technology for ...
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