Trivantis Up the Mobile & Responsive Game with Release of Lectora Online 4.0 and ReviewLink 3.5

In an effort to make creating multi-device course development easier, Trivantis (makers of Lectora, CourseMill & ReviewLink) has released Lectora Online 4.0 and ReviewLink 3.5.

Decentralised Project Based Online Learning on its Way via Blockchain & ICO

LiveEDU is developing a "decentralized online-learning platform" on the blockchain network that imparts real-life project-based learning, delivering live, video tutorial learning where content creators teach learners how to build real products.

Survey - Flash in the Pan

Adobe have announced they’ll stop supporting the Flash plug-in by the end of 2020. As a result, your eLearning content that’s built around this plugin will essentially be, obsolete.

“we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content” 

Adobe - July 2017 

So with three years notice, what’s your plan for eLearning after Flash is gone?

Complete the eLearning Alliance survey and read the full Flash in the Pan article here.

SumTotal Updates Talent Expansion Suite

SumTotal are extending their Talent Expansion Suite to include gamification capabilities, as well as including the ability to aggregate content across third-party content platforms and massive open online courses (MOOCs) with Experience API (xAPI).

Moodle Receives $6m Investment

Founded in 2001, Moodle has relied on partners (there’s currently 84 of them) to generate funds for the central project by paying royalties, but Martin Dougiamas, founder and CEO of Moodle Pty Ltd, have now succumbed to an outside investor, with France based Education for the Many, injecting $6m dollars into the company.

2020 Vision at Learning Technologies Group

It's been a busy few weeks for elearning services provider Learning Technologies Group, what with interim results in mid-September and new set of strategic objectives this week.

Back in 2013, when Indeed Online morphed from being a shell company to an eLearning services company called Learning Technologies Group with the £16.3m purchase of Epic, the Board of LTG targeted a strategy to grow annual revenues to £50mln.  With the interim results announced in September, the Board have met their target a year ahead of schedule.

Introducing Totara Learn 10

Totara Learning has released Totara Learn 10, the latest version of its open source learning management software and the first release to bear the new Totara Learn product name replacing the previous Totara LMS name.