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3 Benefits of Managed Cloud Hosting
While ‘the cloud’ is widely talked about, many organizations still have yet to realize ...
3 Best Practices for Mobile eLearning
Mobile activity and thus mobile learning is growing at a rapid pace. Wherever you are, ...
Big Data & Education - Making eLearning Data-Driven
Big Data in eLearning and education—to some Big Data may seem like a foreign topic ...
3 Reasons Why SaaS HRMS are a Superior Solution
A report released late last week by Forrester Research identifies key trends in the HR ...
Hindsight, Insight, Foresight: The Reporting Maturity Curve Part 1
Using Reporting to Discover Hindsight (Part 1)
EdTech Thought Leadership - Competency Based Learning
Michael B. Horn on Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education: How online competency based ...
Technology Impact on Learning: Analytics, Video
In Salman Khan’s TedTalk, “Let’s use video to reinvent education”—he provides ...
Facebook and Google Align to Improve Open Source Software
Last week the Talk Openly, Develop Openly (TODO) initiative was launched by a group of 10 ...
How to Increase Employee Engagement with an LMS
How can I increase employee engagement? This seems to be the problem that every ...
Moodle™ Voted the Best LMS in Top 100 Tools for Learning Survey
Monday marked the release of the 8th Annual Learning Tools Survey and we are excited to ...
3 Tips for Creating Video in eLearning
Research tells us that video and demonstration is one of the best ways to teach new ...
5 Reasons Why eLearners Want Video
Video currently accounts for 47% of global internet traffic and is expecting to rise to ...
Talent Management System ROI
The Case for an Integrated Approach According to in-depth case study analysis from ...
Understanding Responsive Design for eLearning
With the plethora of internet connected devices available on the market it can be hard to ...
Retention Strategies for Healthcare Organizations
In yesterday’s blog we introduced the two top initiatives that are consuming HR ...
Cost Reduction Strategies for HR Healthcare Professionals
With Obamacare in full effect, US Healthcare institutions are experiencing a surge of ...
The Learning Management System Market Today
The learning and talent management system market today marks a time of significant ...
HR Survey Results: Service Delivery and Technology Trends
In a recent survey from Towers Watson, several key HR survey results bring to light ...
The Benefits of Online Learning for Introverts
Given that one to two thirds of the U.S. population self-identify as introverts, a ...
Innovation Needed in Healthcare
Poll Results from the Wisdom of the Cloud: Cloud Based Learning in Healthcare Webinar ...
Why the Love for Open Source LMS Solutions? Less Risk.
Just over a week ago, many in the talent and learning management sector were surprised to ...
Informal Learning at Work Part 3
If you have not read part 1 and part 2 of our Informal Learning at Work series, I welcome ...
The Ultra-Low-Cost College Degree
Informal Learning at Work Part 2
In Informal Learning at Work Part 1 we introduced what informal learning is and how it ...
Informal Learning at Work Part 1
Informal learning in traditional education practices has been understood as ‘learning by ...
Turning Compliance into a Competitive Advantage Part 4
We have covered a lot of ground in the past few weeks about turning compliance into a ...
Turning Compliance into a Competitive Advantage Part 3
If you missed part 1 and part 2 of Turning Compliance into a Competitive Advantage make ...
Turning Compliance into a Competitive Advantage Part 2
Early this week we discussed how increasing compliance regulations are becoming a burden ...
A Tribute to Robin Williams
Something good will always come, so long as we ensure it does.
Turning Compliance into a Competitive Advantage
Many organizations simply do not have the resources to hire full time compliance ...
HR Trends—Emergence of the Corporate Talent System
Since the 2008 recession HR activities have gradually moved from being centered on ...
Competency Based Learning
Yesterday in our post about the 3 Trends Changing Learning we mirrored what many experts ...
3 Trends Changing Learning
Michael Plater, President of Strayer University, recently wrote about disruptive learning ...
Understanding Learning Styles for better LMS Course Content
Today I was inspired by one of the sections I completed in the Leaders of Learning MOOC I ...
5 Tips for Selecting the Right LMS Part 2
Last week we covered the first three steps for selecting the right LMS. Today we will ...
5 Tips for Selecting the Right LMS
Part One: Getting Started Yesterday we held a webinar titled '5 Tips for Selecting the ...
What’s missing in MOOCs
I am excited to report that today I completed my first module of a MOOC called ‘Leaders ...
eLearning Takeaways from eACH 2014
A few weeks ago fellow executives and I travelled to Toronto for the 2014 eLearning ...
My First MOOC
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been hailed as a revolutionary tool that will ...
Back To School Contest
Calling all eLearning instructors, administrators, managers and designers! Participate in ...
Emerging Trends in eHealth
Until fairly recently, healthcare services were immobile causing difficulty and often ...
Social Learning in the Workplace Part 2
Now that you have a clear understanding of what social media is and how social learning ...
Social Learning in the Workplace Part 1
After reading this two-part series about social learning in the workplace, you will be ...
Governments Increasingly Seek eHealth and eLearning Solutions
As the worldwide population continues to increase, and with the growing aging population ...
eLearning Trends in the Fastest Growing Education Markets
According to a research report released by Euromonitor International earlier this year, ...
Under 15s a Growing Market for eLearning Worldwide
The global research firm, Euromoniter International, has listed children aged 15 and ...
Big Data and Predictive HR Decision Making Part 3
In part one of our Big Data and HR series we explained what Big Data is and how it can be ...
Big Data and Predictive HR Decision Making Part 2
In part one of our Big Data and HR series we explained what Big Data is and how it can be ...
Big Data and Predictive HR Decision Making Part 1
Part 1: Introduction to utilizing Big Data for Predictive HR Decision Making What is Big ...
How to Maximize LMS ROI
If your LMS is fully integrated and implemented, all ready for your hungry learners to ...
LMS ROI
A quick search on Google for ‘LMS ROI’ yields over 600,000 results. Instead of picking ...
Google Glass: The Future of Wearable eLearning?
Google Glass is the poster child for what promises to be the next revolution in mobile ...
5 Steps to Making your E-Learning Platform more Accessible
Web accessibility benefits all your learners and is not hard to achieve in your ...
Knowledge Management Best Practices
With the mass exodus of baby boomers leaving the work force, knowledge management should ...
Self-Organized Learning Environments
A hands-off and revolutionary approach to learning.
Journey Mapping for a Better E-learning Experience
A journey map is a service design tool used to visualize a user's service experience from ...
Reimagining Education: Is online learning the answer?
I think we can all remember that feeling from our elementary and high school days of ...
How to Create a Successful Webinar
The webinar. Its a frequently used medium for online learning programs. Most of us need ...
Will Open Education Resources Reduce Textbook Prices?
Not only are textbooks expensive, their prices increase at a rate of inflation...triple ...
Why Open Badges?
With the advent of online learning, it was only a matter of time before the way ...
Google Hangouts for Online Training
Google Hangouts is a free and easy-to-use tool for video conference calls. It allows up ...
E-Learning Pedagogy: The Situative Perspective Part 3
E-Learning Pedagogy Part 2: The Cognitive Perspective
In the first post of this series, we reviewed the associative perspective of e-learning ...
E-Learning Pedagogy Part 1: The Associative Perspective
E-learning pedagogy is the science and art and of online education. It looks at the ideas ...
Father's Day Facebook Contest!
Lambda Solutions would like to invite you to participate in our Father's Day Facebook ...
Moodle Case Study: Ontario Petroleum Contractors Association
In this Moodle Case Study we learn that fast is good. Fortunately for those of you faced ...
Facebook for Corporate Training
Social media can be used as an effective gathering place for your corporate learners. In ...
Bye Bye Boomers: Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer
This past weekend, I was out for a hike with a family friend who has been an engineer in ...
Creating an Online Course - Know Your Audience
So you’ve been highly focused, locked in an office or chained to your cubicle happily ...
Beginner intro to HTML to Improve LMS Course Content
If you are a teacher or instructor who uses a learning management system (LMS) to share ...
Accessible e-Learning Part 2: Make Your e-Learning Platform Accessible
In our first installment of our 3-part series we looked at the importance of having an ...
eLearning, Training, and Big Data
There's a new buzz word in town. "Big Data." You've heard about it and you likely have ...
Accessibility and E-Learning: Part 1
Why Make Your eLearning Platform Accessible? What is web accessibility? It means making ...
LMS Reliability: Uptime and Learner Engagement
Uptime. We all want it. We all need it. When you are a large training organization with ...
The Benefits of Blended Learning
Of all the lessons learned in the corporate training domain during the 2020 pandemic era, ...
Why Cloud Learning?
Is your learning in the cloud? It should be. It hasn't been around that long, but cloud ...
Using Big Data for Workforce Success
Your integrated open talent platform (that’s your LMS plugged in to your HRMS, ERP, ...
Reduce eLearning costs: Quiz Module
There is a variety of cost savings when moving training to online environments, and the ...
The Gamification of Training
Rote learning--using a mechanical or habitual repetition of something to be learned--is ...
POS Training and the Distributed Workforce
Retail environments are tough training ground for employees. Point of sale (POS) systems ...
Totara LMS for Improved Efficiency
Scenario: Administrators at a large social services agency were manually inputting course ...
10 Ways to Maximize eLearning ROI
We could go on about the benefits of an online training program (ok, yes we know, we have ...
Webinar Poll - How to Improve Employee Engagement and Performance
In Q1 2014 we ran a webinar called How to Improve Employee Performance and Engagement. ...
Learning Tool Interoperability: Extending Your Training Solution
Did you know, the learning tool interoperability (LTI) standard means extensions and ...
How to Onboard New Employees: Open Platform LMS
Are you using an Open Talent Platform to onboard new employees yet? If not, give it some ...
Leadership for Corporate Learning: A New Breed of CLO
Today’s Chief Learning Officer (CLO), needs to be a blend of CLO and Chief Information ...
How to Build a Culture of Continuous Learning
What's Your Relationship with Moodle Plugins?
Plugins are great because they can extend the value of your learning management system. ...
Using LMS for Social Learning In Corporations
What is social learning—is it just a way to teach and learn through social media?
Using Your Open Training Platform for Customer Engagement
Organizations usually adopt a learning management system for one specific, internal ...
Why Spending on Corporate Training is on the Rise
The War for Talent is a term coined by Steven Hankin of McKinsey & Company in 1997. ...
What is an Open Training Platform?
Open Training Platforms for Channel Partner Training and Certification
Learning to Go: Mobility and Talent Development
We’re used to thinking of corporate training happening in a classroom, or at the office ...
Not-for-Profits and Online Learning Success
Increasing Course Completions Using Your Open Talent Platform
We all know the story about the kid whose dog ate the homework. As adults we sometimes ...
What's the Difference Between Failover and Back-Up?
Protecting your learning management system from downtime is one thing. Saving your data ...
Open Educational Resources: Can Corporate Training Benefit?
The word open prefixes many things these days—used to identify goods that have been put ...
MOOCs as a Supplement to Corporate Training
MOOCs—massive open online courses—have been hailed as the future of higher learning. But ...
Concepts in LMS Back-Up, Recovery and Continuity: RTO and RPO
As a small business owner, or manager in a mid-sized organization you need to focus on ...
Learning Management Systems for Competence and Compliance
Meeting quality, performance and compliance goals requires the careful orchestration of ...
Making the Transition from Face-to-Face Training to Remote Learning
Not using online learning yet? You are in good company. Small and mid-sized businesses ...
Aligning Talent Development and Corporate Strategy
Good companies test and tune their corporate strategies on a regular basis. Strategies ...
Health Care Information and Management Systems Conference
Lambda will be attending the Health Care Information and Management Systems conference in ...
Content Delivery Networks: Turbo Charge Your LMS
Ever wondered what’s running behind the scenes at websites like the BBC, CBS sports, ...
Webinar-based training vs. a Learning Management System
In this part three of our three part series on LMS ROI, we look compare webinar-based ...
Choosing Moodle Learning Management System Plugins Wisely
Developing new plugins are part of the way that open source community members share their ...
Integrating Your LMS with Enterprise Applications
Many enterprise-level companies run a Learning Management System (LMS) along with other ...
Maximize ROI by Integrating Your LMS with Your Human Resource Solution
A Unified Talent Management Suite As more companies adopt a learning management system ...
Scaling Your Learning Management System for the Enterprise
When Lambda Solutions first met St. Francis University a small number of faculty was ...
Totara 2.5 Webinar Poll - What is Your Learning Management System?
Last week (Dec 4th), we ran a webinar introducing corporate human resources and training ...
Totara LMS: Enterprise-level Solution for Performance Management
Totara is a ‘distribution’ of Moodle, the world’s top open-source Learning Management ...
Open Source Gaining Ground
Last week, the US Department of Defense (DOD) through Lockheed Martin announced they ...
Moodle 2.6 is Released!
Video in Online Learning: Webinar Poll Results
Last week, we ran a webinar called How to effectively use video in online learning. ...
Serving it Up: Choosing a Video Hosting Platform
The use of video isn't a new trend in education and training, but it is a growing one. ...
Totara 2.5 Unites Training & Performance Management
Totara has always provided strong training and learner management for business. Now, it ...
4 Reasons to Harness Video for Online Learning
The cost of video production has moderated dramatically in the last couple of years. ...
Designing Engaging, Interactive, Online Learning for Adults
lambda Solution delivered a webinar September 19th about the key principles of online ...
Corporate eTraining and Enterprise-level Onboarding Simplified.
We partner with Totara LMS to deliver advanced corporate eTraining. With Totara it’s easy ...