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LMS and eLearning Vendors, May 2016

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

Vendors of Learning Management and eLearning Products

By Don McIntosh, Ph.D. (2016)

For Trimeritus eLearning Solutions Inc.

http://www.trimeritus.com

Updated May 5, 2016

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LMS and eLearning Vendors, May 2016

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) ..................................................................................... 9

Rapid Learning Management Systems

....................................................................................

Learning Content Management Systems (LCMSs) .................................................................................... 67

Course Authoring Tools ............................................................................................................................ 75

Virtual Classrooms ................................................................................................................................. 111

Generic (off-the-shelf) eLearning Courseware Vendors ......................................................................... 122

Education Learning Management Systems (ELMS)................................................................................. 155

Commercial Education LMSs

.................................................................................................

156

Open Source Education LMSs

...............................................................................................

179

Additional resources: ............................................................................................................................. 187

Some unique, hard to categorize solutions:

...........................................................................

193

Big Data integration, analysis and reporting tools

..................................................................

209

Some tools for adding interactivity to courses

........................................................................

216

Website building tools ................................................................................................................ 216

Images ......................................................................................................................................... 217

Image Editing (mostly free) ........................................................................................................ 218

Video ............................................................................................................................................ 218

Sound........................................................................................................................................... 220

Screen Capture ........................................................................................................................... 221

Lecture Capture Systems .......................................................................................................... 230

Free Lesson Plans for Teachers ............................................................................................... 231

Consulting/custom development companies

..........................................................................

237

Apparently discontinued or changed products ...................................................................................... 254

Corporate LMS

.......................................................................................................................

254

Course Authoring

...................................................................................................................

271

Virtual Classrooms

.................................................................................................................

279

Generic Courseware Vendors

................................................................................................

283

Education Learning Management Systems

............................................................................

285

Open Source Learning Management Systems

.......................................................................

290

Other

......................................................................................................................................

291

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LMS and eLearning Vendors, May 2016

Introduction

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

Introduction

“Three

quarters of companies 'implement e

learning'.” From http://www.virtual

college.co.uk/news/Threequarters

companies

implement

elearning

newsitems

801215527.aspx. Nov. 19, 2011.

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 billion

of that and is expected to double by 2015. The LMS market alone is expected to grow to

nearly $2 billion in 2013 and, according to MarketsandMarkets to over $7 billion by 2018.

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

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 vendors

that offer products 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.

Although there are many international vendors listed, the focus is on those available

readily in North America. As a result, there are numerous tools in other countries and

languages not listed here. The list evolves monthly as I learn of new products and

changes.

The demise of the LMS is a topic for discussion (see “Death of the LMS” and

http://www.tonybates.ca/2012/04/04/why

learning

management

systems

are

not

going

away/). The LMS is not going away but it is evolving and the addition of social media

and integration with other systems has made the categories 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)



Course Authoring 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. This list is divided into “Commercial” (i.e. proprietary) and “Open Source”

systems.



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

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LMS and eLearning Vendors, May 2016

Introduction

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

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

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. Canadian vendors are indicated by this highlight.

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) (now owned by Skillsoft)



Saba



Meridian



IBM Smarter Workforce/Kenexa/Outstart (Kenexa purchased Outstart and was

then purchased by IBM).



SuccessFactors (SuccessFactors purchased Plateau and was then purchased by

SAP)



Oracle (they offer several solutions including Oracle Taleo Learn Cloud.

(Learn.com was purchased by Taleo which was then purchased by Oracle in Feb.

2012)



NetDimensions



Cornerstone OnDemand

The largest LMSs in the education sector are



Blackboard



Brightspace (formerly Desire2Learn)



Moodle (open source)



Instructure Canvas (gaining traction on the above)



Sakai (open source)

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LMS and eLearning Vendors, May 2016

Introduction

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

Learning Management Systems (LMSs)

Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are included in two categories:

Corporate

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 categorizing 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 of Akron 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

included as part of education LMSs and more and more corporate LMSs are

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LMS and eLearning Vendors, May 2016

Introduction

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

including them now. Also called social learning and networking.



eLearning development tools (authoring and publishing) are often included in

corporate LMSs and are included in LCMSs and education LMSs.



Content management of internal course materials is normally part of LCMSs

and education LMSs and may be included as part of a suite.



Assessment and testing. The ability to produce tests and assessment both as

part of courses and separately is normally included as part of LCMSs and

education LMSs but only occasionally for corporate LMSs.



Virtual classrooms. They are not normally included as part of an LMS but may

be included as part of a suite. Many LMSs provide integration with third party

virtual classrooms.



Commerce. The ability to charge users for the courses internally and

externally is a feature which is being included in more and more systems.

Sometimes called extended enterprise when companies use their system to

extend their offerings to customers, suppliers, partners, etc.



Reporting. All good systems provide good reporting functions and the ability to

customize reports.



Mobile learning. Many vendors are beginning to add mobile learning

functionality to their LMSs so learning can be accessed on smartphones and

other small mobile devices. Many offer “responsive” output that automatically

adjusts to the size of the viewing screen. Many mobile features are available as

“apps” for which there are many suppliers. I have not attempted to list them here.



Social learning

Along with mobile learning, social learning (offering tools like

Facebook) is an important new offering which LMS providers are rushing to

include.



SaaS (Software as a Service). Some Learning Management Systems are

offered as software that is installed internally in the organization (“behind the

firewall” or “on premise”). Some are offered as hosted or SaaS (Software as a

Service) solutions. The terms Cloud Computing and “on

demand” are also used

for this. Many are offered both ways. The major suppliers of cloud storage are

Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace but many companies provide their

own and there are several hundred in total. A company called Box provides

unlimited cloud storage for higher education institutions that adopt Box through

the Internet2 NET+ initiative.



learning standards: There are a variety of standards that exist to help

support interoperability of courses and applications. AICC, SCORM (in several

versions – 1.2, 1.4, 2004), the new Tin Can/Experience API, IMS (including LTI –

Learning Tools Interoperability and, in higher education, another learning

analytics standard launched in 2015 – IMS Caliper), and others. Most LMSs

subscribe to at least one of these standards but they should always be tested to

be sure that your course material works with them. Useful information can be

found at:

http://www.webbasedtraining.com/primer_standards.aspx.

http://cjlt.csj.ualberta.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/136/129

http://www.syberworks.com/articles/SCORM.htm.

http://scorm.com/scorm

explained/business

scorm/scorm

versions/

https://trainingmag.com/aicc

scorm

tin

can

api

xapi

which

standard

and

why

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