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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

For one thing, you need a whole new piece of software (an LRS ) that is separate from your LMS and is going to cost you more money. People who learned all this for the first time in 2017 were wading in the mucky waters of the Trough of Disillusionment, trying not to get pulled under. All the MOOCs out there. Our evidence?

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The Market for Adult Lifelong Learning

Leading Learning

In 2017, The Economist declared lifelong learning an “economic imperative,” and it has hardly been the only publication in mainstream and business presses to insist on the importance of learning in a world where the scale, scope, and speed of change seem much higher than ever before. billion in 2015.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) was established well before 2007—Salesforce, the company that put SaaS on the map, was founded in 1999—but it took a while for its impact to really be felt broadly, particularly in learning businesses. The SaaS Explosion. I can’t remember the last time that happened. It also, of course, fuels more competition.

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