LMS KnowledgeBase
Containing 40-60 page profiles of 92 systems, Brandon Hall Research's LMS KnowledgeBase is the most comprehensive resource available to help you compare learning management systems and select the system that best meets your needs

LMS Trends
This report explores the history, the progression, and the future of enterprise learning management systems.

Planning and Evaluating Business Needs for an Enterprise Learning Management System
A typical LMS can take months, if not a year or more, to implement and can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Getting it right is critical; getting it wrong can be a problem for both you and your business. This report provides a detailed framework to successfully and efficiently implement an enterprise LMS.

How Learning Management Systems are Integrating Social Learning Technologies: Review and Outlook
This report will provide you with an understanding of how new social learning technologies such as blogs, wikis, peer rating of content , and tagging/bookmarking, are being integrated into learning management systems, making the addition of Web 2.0 technologies to your learning strategy easy.

Learning Management Systems for Blended Learning
Many organizations are beginning to blend new learning experiences with more traditional learning experiences. Increasingly, organizations need a learning management system platform that is able to manage blogs, collaborative and cooperative learning, informal learning, Instructor-led classroom training, as well as many other established and emerging technologies. We’ve pre-selected 38 systems that provide support for blended learning.

LMS Snapshot Profiles
This 705-page report contains shorter profiles of the same 125 learning management systems covered in depth in the LMS KnowledgeBase 2010. "LMS Snapshot Profiles" provides you with a concise yet informative executive summary of each system and an understanding of the 2010 LMS landscape.

Low-Cost Learning Management Systems
Many people are convinced that only large, affluent corporations can afford an LMS. The truth is, there's an LMS for almost any budget. The 49 systems profiled and reviewed in this report consistently price below average for small, medium, large, and very large implementations.

20+ Low-Cost, SCORM Conformant Rapid E-Learning Authoring Tools
Rapid development of e-learning has become a standard operating process for e-learning professionals. This report assists you in finding tools that are low-cost, SCORM conformant, and designed to develop e-learning rapidly.

Using Google for Online Learning: 25 Easy-to-Use Applications
Google Search has become a valuable learning and performance support tool. More often than not, it's the tool we turn to to find out about things. But, Google Search is just one of many tools provided by the software company that can be used for learning. This report presents 25 Google tools you can use for employee training.

Online Learning Games for Employee Training: Case Studies and Resources
This report contains case studies of how 16 well-known organizations, including the Miller Brewing Company, AOL, Cisco, Sara Lee, and the U.S. Army, are using online learning games for employee training.

Online Learning Games for Employee Training: Research and Analysis
Games designed for learning represent one of the hottest areas of emerging e-learning technologies. This report is designed to help interested training professionals understand what is happening in this rapidly developing field.

Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase
This online resource contains 20 to 30-page profiles of more than 100 tools to create almost any type of online learning content. Looking for a product to create online tests? Need a tool to create software simulations? Looking for an application to jazz up your old PowerPoint presentations? The Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase allows you to find the content development tool you need.

Creating Online Tests and Assessments: 19 Easy-to-Use Tools
Your courseware may be well-organized, instructionally sound, and full of “wow” factor, but without the right kind of testing, you’ll never know how effective your learning really is. This report can help you quickly see which tools will be right for your organization.

Custom Content Developers KnowledgeBase
It may be surprising to learn that almost all custom content vendors are chosen via word-of-mouth. In a survey, purchasers of outsource custom development were asked to name ten custom courseware development companies. Most couldn't name five. This knowledgebase will help you select the right content development partner.

Creating Content in Flash Format
Adobe® Flash Player® is one of the world’s most pervasive software platforms and has gained quite a foothold as a format for the delivery of e-learning. This report features in depth profiles of 41 content authoring tools to create engaging, interactive content in this bandwidth-friendly format.

Simulation Development Tools for Soft Skills
Why is so much e-learning for teaching soft skills often text-based? Perhaps it’s because technology-based soft skills simulations can be difficult and costly to create. New content development tools that specialize in the creation of soft skills simulations now exist. This report highlights 19 of the best products.

LCMS KnowledgeBase
A learning content management system can elevate your content creation to a new level. An LCMS stores your content as small bits of information that can be modified and reassembled as needed. These systems also act as a single-source authoring platforms that can output content to many different formats, This online resource contains profiles of more than 40 of the best systems.

PowerPoint to E-Learning Development Tools
Organizations with limited budgets or who can’t obtain the buy-in to make learning as important as they would like often turn to PowerPoint to jump-start their training initiatives. This report will help you uncover new and innovative third-party PowerPoint plug-ins that will enhance your courseware.

E-learning 101
This report provides basic knowledge and an understanding of e-learning that will enable readers to describe the e-learning “space” to others and to understand the foundation and tools for making decisions around, and gaining support for, their organization’s e-learning strategy.

Learning Technology Products THREE FREE REPORTS!
These three free reports contain short one- to three-page profiles of the authoring tools, learning management systems (LMS), and learning content management systems (LCMS) featured in our research KnowledgeBases.

Help and Support Systems: Present Practices and Future Perspectives
Exploring the history, research literature, and current and future trends of help and support systems.

The Impact of Training on Participation, Performance, and Productivity
Training vs. education. Productivity vs. performance. How do these terms differ? How are they defined in the literature? And what connections exist between them? This report examines the complex relationships between training, performance, and productivity in the workplace.

Worldwide Mobile Learning Trends: 2010
The growth of the Internet in general, and mobile computing in particular, is nothing short of astounding, with the greatest growth happening in mobile phones worldwide. This report explores how mobile devices are used around the world in various ways and, in particular, for learning purposes.

Understanding Social Learning in Organizational Settings
Even though humans are naturally social beings, our educational system has, for hundreds of years, treated learners mostly as individuals. This report examines the meaning and practices associated with the social aspects of learning in this exciting new world of self-serve, social, and mobile learning.

USA Government Funding Options for Corporate Training: Understanding the Landscape . . . Knowing Your Options
Even in positive economic times, training programs often receive a less than adequate budget. The government can help by funding your company’s training initiatives. This report explains where and how to obtain government funding for training.

Blended Learning 2010: Trends and Descriptions of Real-World Initiatives
The term blended learning has been around since the early 2000s. However, blended learning is continuing to mature and become more innovative, making it an attractive option right now in the workplace. This report presents recent trends in blended learning, highlighting the benefits and challenges of undertaking this type of training initiative.

Understanding Learning Analytics
Can we create metrics to validate the impact of e-learning to our company's bottom line? This report identifies and explains the processes, methods, and statistics to measure the return on investment from learning initiatives.

Using Google for Online Learning: 25 Easy-to-Use Applications
Google Search has become a valuable learning and performance support tool. More often than not, it's the tool we turn to to find out about things. But, Google Search is just one of many tools provided by the software company that can be used for learning. This report presents 25 Google tools you can use for employee training.

100+ Free E-Learning Tools for Employee Training and Personal Learning
People commonly believe that you get what you pay for. This report, however, will prove that adage wrong. Co-written by Jane Hart, social media and learning advisor at the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, and Brandon Hall Research Analyst, Janet Clarey, this report covers the top 100 free tools that should be part of your learning initiatives.

Online Learning Games for Employee Training: Case Studies and Resources
This report contains case studies of how 16 well-known organizations, including the Miller Brewing Company, AOL, Cisco, Sara Lee, and the U.S. Army, are using online learning games for employee training.

Online Learning Games for Employee Training: Research and Analysis
Games designed for learning represent one of the hottest areas of emerging e-learning technologies. Major learning management platforms have added simulation or gaming extensions that allow them to launch games and track players’ results. Educational games and simulations now appear on cell phones, and traditional educational publishers have announced gaming initiatives in higher education and corporate training markets.

Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace: Overview and Instructional Design Considerations
Many organizations have team members that span at least three generations. Does a one-size-fits-all approach to training meet the needs of these different age groups, or should we consider generational differences in designing learning experiences? This report recommends how you can address generational and other issues when designing instruction for workplace learning.

Mobile Learning Comes of Age: How and Why Organizations are Moving to Learning on Mobile Devices
As our most in-depth examination of mobile learning, this report focuses on the business drivers behind the current high rate of adoption. Also included are six case studies on how well-known organizations are using mobile learning.

Mobile Learning: Tools and Technologies for Creating Engaging Content
One challenge surrounding online learning is rapid technological change. This is especially true with mobile learning. Mobile devices, like computers, quickly become outdated and are then replaced. This report is a snapshot of the mobile learning landscape today.

Visualization in Learning: 14 Case Studies That Emphasize Visual Thinking
Because we need to deal with such a large amount of information each day, we read less and scan more. Replacing text-heavy content with well designed visuals can lead to increased engagement, retention, and recall. This report contains 14 case studies and dozens of images showing how visualization is being used to improve learning.

E-Learning 2.0: How to Create and Implement a Real-World E-Learning Strategy
The term e-learning 2.0 is used to refer to new ways of thinking about e-learning. Rather than being based on a model where the instructor pushes learning content to the learner, the e-learning 2.0 models emphasize shared, remixed, repurposed, and distributed learning content. This report will provide you with a starting point for analyzing and executing a real-world e-learning strategy.

Using Second Life® for Workplace Learning: Analysis and Resources
Second Life is the best known virtual world environment and has attracted huge amount of interest from the learning community. Although most workplace learning efforts in Second Life are in the early stages, some intriguing early-adopter implementations exist. This report provides the key information you need to help you evaluate the potential benefits of using this platform.

Mobile Learning: The Essential Information for Training Professionals
For years, learning analysts have been predicting wide adoption for mobile learning. But, until now, this has not occurred. Mobile phone companies are at last seeing cell phones as miniature Web-enabled computers in people's pockets rather than as portable telephones. Consequently, smart phone sales are soaring. This report provides you with the key information you need to expand beyond a desktop-based learning strategy toward one where people can learn anywhere, anytime.

Building and Fostering Virtual Learning Communities
Extensive evidence suggests that effective learning communities provide important benefits for learners and their organizations. Apart from significant gains in learning, benefits include reducing isolation, enhancing collegiality, increasing job satisfaction, and Instituting new approaches to solving problems. This report provides you with the key information you need to understand and foster virtual learning communities within your organization.

Learning Technologies for Healthcare Education and Training
Since human lives are at stake, training in the healthcare industry is rigourous, intensive, and critical. Complicating matters, the medical world changes quickly as new procedures, practices, and technologies are introduced at an ever faster rate. To meet these challenges, healthcare has in the last decade embraced innovative learning technologies. This report provides an analysis of how the medical world uses a multitude of learning strategies to improve performance.

Managing Virtual Teams: Effective Practices and Technology Resources
There was a time when the only way to effectively and efficiently get a project completed was to meet face-to-face with all of the project’s participants. But with advances in technology, co-location is no longer a prerequisite for collaboration. Instead, many companies are having success with virtual teams.

The Push for Talent Management
The first report in the Brandon Hall Analysis Series,"The Push for Talent Management: Analyzing Trends, Processes, Solutions, and Systems" provides a concise yet deep analysis of the issues surrounding the important topic of talent management today. In just a couple of hours of reading, you'll be up to speed on the key issues related to talent management today.

The Real Story: Blended Learning
Develop employees. Do it faster. Do it with more flexibility and social interaction. Individualize it. Moreover, do it with a reduced budget! Those are some of the challenges we face daily. Where to start? For the most learning-centric organizations, the answer is through a learning strategy that combines multiple delivery methods and formats.

Talent Management: A Complete Guide to Strategies, Systems, and Issues
To maintain a competitive advantage and to meet the demands of business, organizations need to identify, select, and develop their employees in a way that both supports the company’s business goals and provides employees with clear career paths. In other words, organizations must become deliberate and strategic in their programs for managing their talent.

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Training and Development: The Business Brief
This report provides only the key information busy learning professionals need to know about collaborative learning. What is computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL)? What can CSCL do for training and development? What can collaborative learning do for a business? What software and hardware do I need to implement CSCL? And more.

Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in Education and Training: Case Studies and Key Resources
This report contains 16 case studies of collaborative learning technologies being used in organizations today: This new report also contains a set of resources for users who want to go further in their quest additional information about collaborative learning.

Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in Education and Training: Tools and Technologies
A new set of Internet technologies, known as E-learning 2.0, is having a major impact on furthering computer supported collaborative learning. These technologies are transforming learning as a classroom phenomenon to something that takes place at any time and any location. This report provides a survey of tools and technologies that can be used to support collaborative learning in training and development.

Computer-Based Collaborative Learning for Training and Development: Research and Practice
Collaboration sounds like a positive idea. It seems friendly, helpful, and sociable. So, the term “collaborative learning” should be equally appealing — even more so when we throw technology into the mix. What’s not to like about using technology to support collaborative learning? A thorough review of the literature on using computers to support collaborative learning shows that reality is more complicated. This report contains a comprehensive overview of the current state of collaborative learning.

Virtual Worlds for Learning: Tips to Help Convince Your Training Department to Use Immersive Environments
Considerable marketing is often needed to convince corporate decision-makers that a new technology is worth the investment. This short report includes ten tips to help you convince your training departments to use virtual worlds for learning. This short report is free with the purchase of any other report on virtual worlds listed below.

Virtual Worlds for Learning: How Four Leading Organizations are Using Immersive Environments for Training
Early adopters are like pioneers, braving new uncharted territories by implementing exciting new technologies into their organizations’ infrastructures. Those who implement the same technologies later can learn much from these early adopters. This report provides case studies of how four organizations, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Paideia Computing, and TELUS Communications have implemented this emerging learning technology.

Virtual Worlds for Learning: An Analysis of Eight Immersive Environment Platforms
When people hear the terms virtual world or immersive environment, they often think of Second Life. Second Life is by far the most well-known virtual world. But, you may be surprised to hear that there are others. This report profiles eight virtual worlds to consider for workplace learning. This report also presents standards for evaluating virtual worlds, to help you select a suitable platform.

Virtual Worlds for Learning: An Analysis in the Use of Immersive Environments for Training
Virtual worlds such as Second Life are attracting interest from organizations as platforms for learning. Also known as immersive environments, these systems can provide significant advantages over other learning strategies. This report provides you with the key information you need to understand virtual worlds and evaluate their benefits.

Emerging E-Learning Content
This 207-page report examines 45 of the most promising ideas, innovations, and content formats in the field of e-learning and provides examples of how organizations are applying new technologies.

Emerging E-Learning Services
Online learning is undergoing dramatic changes as powerful new content types, technologies, and services are being adopted for training. Dr. Gary Woodill’s third report in the popular Emerging E-Learning Series is the only analysis in the industry of the 24 emerging services available and required for the professional production of online learning. This 140-page report discusses how the e-learning industry, as it matures, is moving from an emphasis on technologies and content, to a service based economy.

Emerging E-Learning Technologies
Dr. Gary Woodill’s second report in the popular Emerging E-Learning Series, "Emerging E-Learning Technologies: Tools for Developing Innovative Online Training," covers 52 categories of new and innovative e-learning tools and Web resources that can be used to expand the possibilities for producing highly engaging online learning content.

Open Source E-Learning
Open source software has become mainstream. Open source is also making important inroads into the world of online learning. "Open Source E-Learning: Alternatives to Proprietary Tools, Systems, and Courseware" provides the information you need to help decide whether open source e-learning is right for you.

E-learning 101
This report provides basic knowledge and an understanding of e-learning that will enable readers to describe the e-learning “space” to others and to understand the foundation and tools for making decisions around, and gaining support for, their organization’s e-learning strategy.

Linking Training to the Business Goals
This report provides detailed case studies and an analysis of how six industry-leading organizations make training a key driver to attaining their organizations' goals.

Leadership Development
If your organization is committed to developing superior managers, this report can help. It examines high-profile organizations with superior leadership development practices.

How to Design for the Live Online Classroom
With this report, trainers now have all of the information they need to go from tinkering with the technology to becoming an expert at designing and running live online learning initiatives.

How to Manage a Large-Scale Learning Initiative
Twenty years of lessons learned in the education, training, and performance improvement industries are condensed into one report for you to use in your own learning initiatives.

How To Develop a Request for Proposal
RFPs can be a lot of work, but they're worth it. We've collected everything you need – including templates – to write your own Request for Proposal.

Outsourcing the Training Function
What's the story behind outsourcing? Find out with this report that shows you why it's a hot topic and what it means for training.

Making E-Learning Work in the Nonprofit Sector
The nonprofit sector is a unique industry with its own culture, language, and processes. This report details the unique challenges – and opportunities – that face nonprofits in their training practices.

How to Create an Internal Proposal
The goal of this report is to help you develop a proposal that results in funding for your learning initiative. Comprehensive guidelines and practical tools help you build an effective business case.

Best Practices in Sales Training
How can you get real business results from sales training? We took an in-depth look at successful examples.

Award-Winning Custom Content 2008
This report features 13 case studies and 12 video recordings of the top custom content entries submitted to the 2008 Excellence in Learning Awards. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel when it comes to online custom courses. Learn from the successes that have already been accomplished.

Customer Service Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the 2007 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards
Gaining customers for your products and services is difficult. Keeping them as satisfied customers is even harder. Consumers have so many product and service choices now that they'll quickly abandon a company if the quality of its customer service is lacking. Consequently, customer service training has never been more important. This report contains nine case studies and online excerpts of customer service courses submitted to the 2007 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards.

Product Knowledge and Sales Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the 2007 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards
A great sales team is at the heart of all successful organizations. Sales generate the revenues required to finance innovation and pay the bills. Great sales teams can generate huge profits in good times and can help weather economic downturns. This report provides an inside view of the online learning Cisco, Harley-Davidson, Nike, Volvo, and 10 other well-known organizations provide to their sales teams.

Employee Orientation Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the 2007 Brandon Hall Awards
All organizations want to get new employees up to speed and productive as quickly as possible. Consequently, new employee orientation training is a key area of focus for most training departments. This report provides 10 case studies and seven online excerpts of employee orientation courses submitted to the 2007 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards.

Award-Winning Custom Content 2007
This report features 19 case studies and 17 online excerpt recordings of the best custom content entries submitted to the 2007 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards.

Award-Winning Custom Content 2006
This report features 37 case studies and 35 online excerpt recordings of the best custom content entries submitted to the 2006 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards. Every course included in this report was evaluated by a minimum of five independent judges and was found to be the best of the best.

Professional and Industry-Specific Skills
Professional and industry-specific online training courses are used to develop complex and unique skills within many industries. This report provides a glimpse into online training in other industries, allowing you to borrow ideas from some of the world's leading organizations.

Employee Orientation and Interpersonal Skills
Employee orientation and interpersonal skills training focus on such universal topics as code of conduct, sexual harassment, active listening, bullying, and respect in the workplace, playing a key role in making work more rewarding for everyone.

Sales and Customer Service Skills
What do expert course developers do to make their courses so engaging? This 125-page report provides 36 case studies and 30 online video excerpts of sales training and customer service courses submitted to the 2006 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards.

Workplace Procedures and Technical Skills
This 116-page report provides 32 case studies and 31 online video excerpts of workplace procedures and technical skills courses submitted to the 2006 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards.

Award-Winning Custom Content 2005
Want to experience winning courses as learners experience them? Need proven models to pattern your own courses after? Look no further than the Excellence in E-Learning Award Winners.

Sales Training Initiatives
Sales training is often as unique to individual organizations as the products each sells. A sound sales training program is critical to meeting business goals and maintaining a competitive advantage in the marketplace. This report provides five case studies of successful sales training initiatives by such well-known companies as AT&T, Avon, and HSBC.