I just published a post to my corporate blog listing the 100 commercial learning management systems covered by Brandon Hall Research. There are a couple of interesting observations about this:
- The long-predicted consolidation in the learning management system space isn’t taking place.
- New systems appear to be coming to market at an accelerated pace.
- Some people are predicting that learning management systems will soon be replaced with informal learning methods. Obviously, technology developers don’t seem to think so. And, even in a slow economic climate, there must be a reasonably healthy market for this type of technology to support all of these products.
I received a nice e-mail from professor William Caplin, the James McGill Professor of Music Theory at McGill University in response to a post I wrote on my corporate blog last week titled Critical Skills We All Need Series: Writing. As I mentioned in my post, Professor Caplin has turned out to be the biggest influence on my career and “the most important teacher I have ever had. ” I should not have let 20 years go by before telling him this.
For the last few days, I’ve been wearing my learning analyst hat and working on a number of reports about learning management systems for Brandon Hall Research. I’ve posted two articles to my corporate blog related to LMS pricing in 2009:
Average Pricing for Learning Management Systems in 2009
Price Ranges for Learning Management Systems in 2009
Later this week, I’ll be providing graphs that show how pricing has changed in the last few years.
