This is a platform designed to increase active learning engagement in a workforce, and through that engagement – deliver increased performance.

Active engagement drives higher performance

Fuse’s primary vision is that performance should be the end goal of workplace learning, and that performance drives productivity and helps people in specific roles. They believe that learning technology only really works if people use it, so have designed a platform that makes it easy to capture, curate, and share the knowledge of subject matter experts within a business.

It then enables employees to access it when, where, and how they work.

Fuse empowers learning at the moment of need, and as a vendor they understand that the technology required can be different for learning in the moment of need versus learning to develop your career. For example, they believe that the learning platform functionality required for career development (to enable someone to move from being an individual contributor to a manager) differs from the AI needed to power how to do your current job better.

The latter tends to have the biggest impact on driving performance within an organisation. It’s clear to me that Fuse is focused on empowering learning in the moment of need and driving that performance, enabling people to do their jobs better, faster and more efficiently.

However, it’s also a platform that can be set up with all the usual learning pathways to facilitate career development that you would expect. Albeit slightly less exciting than some of their particular USPs, Fuse also boasts other in-built functionality to facilitate increased employee performance, including scheduling of one-to-ones, creation of goals, and observation checklists.

These are worth mentioning as they are not necessarily core features of every LMS. Key to reporting on your organisational KPIs are the comprehensive analytics powered by Good Data, with an impressive array of data points and a self-serve report builder to cater for any out-of-the-box reporting requirements.

Strong focus on informal and collaborative learning that helps drive performance

Fuse was a market disruptor 10 years ago, being very much focused on the 70/20 components of the 70/20/10 model and informal and collaborative learning. This clear and distinctive move away from traditional SCORM courses was at the time quite radical in some ways – hence the “disruptor” tag.

One of the things that Fuse pride themselves on is that they consider their vision and philosophy to be one that differentiates them from their competitors. They believe that learning should drive performance in the business and this philosophy impacts their product roadmap and the services that they provide.

This philosophy helps drive the high engagement that is needed to ensure that performance increases, and gives them a much more holistic vision for their product development roadmap. Fuse’s recognition that social learning and peer to peer is the most mature learning intervention makes their platform a great choice for organisations that are digitally mature enough to do this already.

It also offers a future-proof option for those want to transition and move to that as part of their ongoing strategy.

Their sweet spot for a typical client tends to be organisations with 5,000 employees and up, and typically with geographically-dispersed workforces who need scalable, flexible, and innovative learning solutions where their multi-lingual functionality (more on that later) is a real draw.

They have a strong showing in the car manufacturing, retail, technology, and hospitality sectors with clients such as Lotus, Mazda, Jaguar Land Rover, Dropbox, Panasonic, IHG, and Avon among many others. Avon, their biggest client so far in terms of active users, has over 1 million users accessing the platform in over 50 languages.

Enabling businesses to create bite-size content and reduce skill gaps

Fuse’s approach to content is very much founded on the philosophy of micro-learning, bite-size learning, and informal learning, rather than your traditional SCORM and elearning content. Having said that, they recognise that more formal and compliance learning is fundamental to many organisations, so the platform is obviously SCORM compatible and facilitates the transferring of SCORM content into it.

However, in terms of authoring capability, it’s much more focused on enabling or facilitating the decentralised creation of user-generated short form content and micro bite-size learning content with in-built surveys, quizzing tools and video creation and editing tools.

Skills is the big topic that everyone in the learning sector is talking about at the moment, so it’s no surprise that Fuse want to draw attention to the great skills functionality that they can offer. Information from existing skills platforms like SkyHive, Gloat, and Fuel50 that might already be in situ – particularly for large corporates – can be used to feed the relevant skill gaps into their engine and provide recommended learning to users based on those particular skill gaps.

To help deliver this content to close skill gaps, they partner with a wide variety of content providers, like LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, and iAM Learning, and they integrate with many others. They also boast their own 25-30 strong in-house content team, including videographers, graphic designers, animators, and learning designers etc.

Although content only represents some 10% of their annual revenue, with their platform their main product, having a content team is just one example of how they help clients drive that performance through learning because they are on hand to help co-design content with clients to help them transition to that bite-size learning world.

Natural language, AI-powered search

Fuse provides a “Google like” search experience that uses a natural language search (it actually uses Google AI to power it), which allows you to search just as you would if you were searching using Google. It trawls through paragraphs within PDF training manuals and all the content in the platform to pull out the snippets or extracts that are relevant to your search, which I thought was really impressive and something that is quite unusual for learning platforms.

They also offer Fuse Flow, a browser extension which can be installed as a button on your browser. Now, let’s say you’re an employee in an organisation and you’re in a particular piece of software – say Salesforce – and you need to search on how to do something in the software.

You could open Fuse Flow and because it recognises the software you’re in, it will supply the relevant predictions as you start typing your search. The Knowledge Intelligence engine that’s being used surfaces relevant dynamic content to learners, providing recommendations of relevant learning content based on either people’s skill gaps or content that will keep them up to date and drive their curiosity.

This links into Fuse’s strategy in that you can use these AI-powered micro-feeds to pull users back into the platform and drive that engagement and activation. A really good stat to highlight this is that for Seasalt who have 87% monthly active engagement with an average of 3 return visits per week per user, which is brilliant and a worthy goal for any ambitious organisation to aspire to.

A new addition to this search tool is generative answers. It uses generative AI to generate answers from multiple sources, process them, and synthesize them. So, you could ask a specific question related to your role and it will consult all the relevant sources that it has access to, then pull those together, using natural language provide you with an answer.

The example of a good use case here would be enabling the reduction of call centre handling times by half, which plays into the productivity ethos that Fuse promotes.

Impressive multi-lingual capabilities

Fuse’s multi-lingual functionality offers 50+ languages (I think it’s also worth pointing out that these are all included as standard and not charged as extras) and provides dynamic content translation, including the transcription both from and to those 50+ languages. This means that you can create a video in English for example, and it will be auto-transcribed and auto-translated into as many of those languages as required.

Users in other countries with a different profile would be able to view those videos with the translated captioning on them. I think this is amazing functionality for organisations that have that need.

It can auto-transcribe a variety of different content, like video, articles, and questions, and enables you to have one learning object but as many different versions of that learning object in those multiple different languages as you want. So, you might have a welcome video as part of staff onboarding and you can have twenty different versions of that in 20 different languages, but it’s still just one object, which is obviously better for reporting.

It also facilitates auto-translations of the comments and social interaction with that content, so if a learner wants to ask a question to the trainer or SME they can do so in their own language. They can write their comment like you’d write a comment on Facebook or other social media, and when the SME sees it they can use a translate button to translate it into their own language. This is a great tool to enable cross-lingual communication and learning.

A great example of this is where content in Fuse School (Fuse’s social enterprise to educate children globally on secondary science and maths curriculum topics, which is used for free by over 10 million children globally) was translated for Ukrainian refugees.

On hand to help you launch your first learning experience with confidence

It’s not just Fuse’s platform that impressed me, but also the services they deliver to clients to complement it. They believe it’s essential to be at the client’s side, helping them to create their learning culture, create their content strategy, and provide consultancy to hold the client’s hand along the way.

This is because they recognise that performance is achieved through more than just the platform itself. Their Lx Accelerator service has been developed specifically to support this by helping clients create their initial MVP content or first learning experience, giving them that important initial boost that they can launch with the confidence that they’ll be offering some real value.

In Summary

If you’re looking for a learning platform that links training to tangible improvements in business performance, then Fuse is one of the best solutions out there.

For large organisations looking to reach a global workforce across multiple languages, Fuse is particularly powerful, making translations and multilingual content extremely easy.

Bite-size learning content can be created and rolled out quickly at scale, and analysed with rich, intuitive dashboards – no wonder so many of the world’s best-known brands already use Fuse.

As the company is embracing and already leveraging the transformational powers of AI and natural language search, it looks set to get even more interesting and useful over the coming months and years.

Learn more on the Fuse website.

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However, not all learning platforms make course and learner analytics easy. You shouldn’t need to be a data scientist to gather and interpret information on how elearning is being delivered and used. The top elearning companies and their LMS, LXP or any other type of modern learning platform will offer an intuitive UX / UI and easy to follow dashboards to help you delve into the data.

This will enable the Learning & Development team to laser in on individuals or teams that might need additional support, while improving elearning content that may prove to be less engaging or lead to the expected training outcomes.

Great Platforms for Learning Analytics

The following elearning companies have created LMS, LXP or Learning Suite solutions that clearly place a great deal of importance on course and learner analytics to support L&D teams:

ETU

ETU (Empower The User) offer a powerful, simulation-based training platform that captures learner data to deliver personalised, adaptive learning experiences.

By creating simulations accessible via a PC, rather than additional hardware like AR/VR headsets, immersive learning can be delivered at scale. The emphasis is on continuous feedback and creating the psychological safety needed for employees to develop skills, rather than just absorb knowledge.

Learners receive continuous feedback, while L&D teams can identify skills gaps to help improve content or offer additional support where needed.

All this is made possible through learner data gathering and analytics to deliver a personalised learning experience.

Learn more about the ETU learning simulation platform that’s used by market leaders such as Amazon, Deloitte, IBM and Merck to improve their training.

They also have several learner data analytics articles on the useful immersive learning resources seection of their website.

imc Learning

imc help well known brands worldwide to leverage learner data in order to boost their professional development initiatives and overall corporate success. The company offers a complete Learning Suite with integrated LMS and LXP functionality and powerful learning analytics tools to help you help you optimise your training strategy.

imc report that 92% of all L&D professionals state they are under pressure to prove the benefit of digital learning for their company. This also indicates that many companies are not aware of the value learning programmes can create for them – even though it has been shown that learning strategies can increase revenues by up to 218%.

They provide both the elearning deployment and learner analytics and reporting tools to make training a key competitive advantage for the likes of Deloitte, Vodafone, Audi, Sky and many more leaders in their field.

Address:
Scheer Tower,
Uni Campus Nord
66123
Saarbrücken / Germany

Tel: +49 681 94760
Read more about the imc approach to learning analytics on their website.

Docebo

Docebo makes it easy to gather, analyse, and leverage data from your training programmes. You can turn the data into useful insights to support your business KPIs with Learning Analytics.

Large scale learning programmes generate big data. Docebo Learning Analytics gives you the tools you need to automatically collect and analyze all that valuable data. With their powerful dashboards and reporting tools, you can clearly understand how your training programmes are performing, as well as how that data connects with and affects other areas of your business.

Address:
Suite 1 3rd Floor,
11-12 St James’ Square,
London,
SW1Y 4LB,
UK

Tel: +44 0 207 283 8677
Read more about Docebo’s learning analytics tools.

Cornerstone

Combining powerful predictive analytics and data insights, Cornerstone provides a fluid work experience to help HR and L&D teams to grow their people and businesses more effectively.

Established in 1999, Cornerstone started with a simple but ambitious idea to improve access to education on a global basis through online learning. Since then, the company has come a long way and become a major provider of corporate training solutions, but remains to its mission of helping people learn and grow.

Address:
1601 Cloverfield Blvd,
Suite 600 South,
Santa Monica,
CA 90404

Tel: +1 (888) 365-2763
More about Cornerstone analytics and reporting tools can be found on their site

Learning Pool

Learning Pool can help accelerate your journey to learning data maturity with analytics that leverages BI strategies to deliver enterprise level reporting to L&D.

Learning Pool was founded in 2006 to bring online learning into organisations in a collaborative way. Originally focused on sharing online learning content amongst government bodies, they took that concept and built out range of tools to enable performance improvement and modernisation.

Address:
Clockwise Offices, Riverhouse
48-60 High St
Belfast, Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
BT1 2BE

Tel: +44 207 101 9383
Read more about Learning Pool reporting tools.

LearnUpon

You can use LearnUpon’s out-of-the-box reports to track user progression, exam results, survey responses, training histories, and more.

The company can help you build a bigger picture of training performance.

Address:
1st Floor Ocean House,
Arran Quay,
D07 DHT3,
Dublin

Tel: +44 203 642 7679
Read more about LearnUpon elearning reporting features.

If you’ve been looking for a learning analytics definition, the potential L&D benefits or a shortlist of some of the best learning platforms for powerful data and analysis tools, then hopefully you’ll have found the above information useful.

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About Av

Av Srivastava is an eLearning Research & Marketing Consultant who has worked with a range of learning solution companies in the UK, US and worldwide, including several training platform specialists.

He researches and writes about the latest and best elearning solutions to help buyers choose the ideal company for their needs.

He also helps great elearning companies to understand their perfect customers, increase their visibility, and develop steady streams of inbound enquiries.

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Advancing Digital is a project financed by the EU’s European Social Fund, which has an objective of levelling up business growth and opportunities across the economic region by investing in jobs and skills.

Both employers and ambitious employees alike are welcome to apply for a range of free digital skills and business courses in areas that include:

• Data Analytics
• Databases (beginner and intermediate courses)
• Project Management
• IT Service Management
• Web Analytics
• Business Security
• Applied AI for Business
• Web Marketing
• and more…

Employers can also request bespoke course packages in popular business software products, such as:

• Microsoft Excel
• Azure Basics and Data Visualisation
• PowerBI
• Python programming
• MS Office 365

Advancing Digital courses for modern business are run by a talented team led by Dr Chris Roast of Sheffield Hallam University.

The team comprises expertise across diverse areas of technology and business, such as:

• Project management
• Web & app development
• 5G and network security
• C#, C++ and Javascript programming
• Cloud-based solutions and data management
• Computing and software engineering
• Web application penetration testing and IT security awareness

So – well-placed to guide companies and employees in all things digital!

As an EU-funded project, Advancing Digital will only run until the end of 2023, so if you are interested in improving your skills with this free learning (or those of your employees), it’s important to register your interest and start one of their short courses as soon as possible.

Employers in South Yorkshire: Register your interest as an employer

Employees living or working in South Yorkshire: Register interest as an employee

 
Any questions? Email the Advancing Digital team at Sheffield Hallam University via:
advancingdigital@shu.ac.uk
 

Learn more about the project on the Advancing Digital website.

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Super rapid, super slick

imc’s Express builds on decades of experience creating some of the best training solutions, and here we are talking super rapid content development that can be used by pretty much anyone to build out digital content quickly and easily. With just 10 minutes, you can be flying.

We’ve already signposted imc Express as one of the best examples of leveraging AI for elearning content creation and maximising productivity for L&D teams or subject matter experts. However, in 2023, the imc team took this to another level.

Express now integrates ChatGPT technology and makes it extremely easy for anyone – without any previous learning design or techie experience – to create elearning modules in minutes…

The training is very good, including a tutorial mode with contextual help to ensure you build out good learning and help pages.

If you have a lot of material to create or convert and not a lot of time, Express is a great option. This tool is 3 to 4 times quicker to create learning content than the market leaders, and perfect for making dry documents into learning resources rapidly.

Favourite features:

• Super rapid content development
• Good learning design principles (Didactics – designed in)
• 60 languages supported out of the box with voice and text translation done automatically
• AI can generate translated subtitles for videos
• Easy drag and drop of learning assets into a course that are automatically added to your content library and tagged (very neat)
• Collaborative development
• Outputs to SCORM 1.2 and 2004, as e-book, MS word or as a link

Learn more about content creation with imc Express.

A Complete Suite

iSpring Suite Max with iSpring Space

If PowerPoint is your chosen medium to build from, then iSpring was the way to go. iSpring is easy to use and has an awful lot of flexibility and capability.

However, i-Spring Suite Max now has a lot more capability.  The all new iSpring Space offers browser-based development capabilities and manages the learning assets to allow for sharing and their re-use.  iSpring Space allows for the developing of micro learning, which is now exceptionally well catered for.

Favourite features:

• Collaborative development
• Micro learning development capability
• Article editor feature (very cool)
• Create video-based learning with powerful editing and polishing tools
• Super quiz development capabilities, probably the best on the market

Learn more about iSpring Suite Max and iSpring Space.

Lighthouse content creation made easy

Open eLMS Creator is a well evolved authoring environment that just keeps getting better and better. With its 3d background effect it is incredibly easy to build elearning that is in the context of your organisation’s workplace.

Add a narrator and the learning is starting to look really impactful. With a devotion to ergonomics the company behind Open eLMS Creator really gets how to create a tool that produces highly visual “lighthouse content” easily.

Favourite features:

• 3d template approach
• 1000 or more different templated backgrounds
• Narrator feature (a green screen filmed narrator is yours to use)
• Able to update content in situ in an LMS (no downloading, amending and re-uploading here).
• Alexa does the audio narration for you

Learn more about Open eLMS Creator.

Elegant, easy and effective

Nimble Author keeps things simple and it does it superbly well. With sound instructional design principles designed into Nimble Author it is easy to build out e-learning quickly and easily. Nimble handles interactions well and really does make life easy to build content.

Nimble allows you to build learning through the eyes of the learner.  The material design approach meaning a familiar and intuitive interface for learner and creator.

Favourite features:

• The learner view is very good and easy to switch through to
• Templates are provided to build the learning in
• The rule of digestibility – Nimble Author2 will tell you if you have too much content on the page
• In situ screen editing meaning no need to storyboard (this is my favourite feature)
• The Nimble support promise……get stuck and the guys from Nimble will lend a hand…no problem.

Learn more about Nimble Author.

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These US elearning providers can help you with delivering online health and safety training, regulatory / legal compliance, business skills development and more.

ETU

One of the most interesting US elearning companies, which is making great strides in the field of immersive learning simulations, is Empower The User – ETU.

While there are many simulation-based training companies in the market, what makes ETU different is that they create data-driven learning solutions for soft skills development without the need for the logistics or expense associated with AR or VR headsets.

The benefits of immersive simulation training are in the creation of a safe practice environment. Learners can experiment with their responses to common workplace scenarios without fear of failure. This provides the psychological safety needed for employees to really develop and grow as professionals.

Many of the world’s leading companies are now using ETU simulations as part of their employee engagement and L&D toolkit, including the likes of Amazon, Deloitte, Merck, IBM, PwC and more.

ETU’s solutions are particularly applicable for skills development in:

• Leadership & Management
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
• Sales & Customer Service
• Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management
• Business Ethics

Learn more about the innovative simulation training solutions from ETU over on their website.

Infopro Learning

Infopro Learning is an award-winning elearning company providing corporate training solutions globally to improve workforce performance for their clients and help drive their business growth.

103 Morgan Lane
Suite 102
Plainsboro
NJ 08536
Tel: +1 (609) 606-9984
www.infoprolearning.com

TalentLMS

This company is one of the world’s leading cloud LMS providers, offering an easy to use, modular learning platform.

TalentLMS is a suite of tools that enable you to build your own elearning courses based on existing multimedia content, and make them available on a learning management system that’s customized to your branding and needs, as well as based on your own domain if desired.

Everything is mobile friendly by default, and supports both SCORM and Tin Can / xAPI standards. While the TalentLMS solutions are designed with simplicity in mind, they are powerful and robus enough to be trusted by many of the world’s best known companies, including LG, DeLonghi, Rosetta Stone, Merck, Harper Collins Publishers and many more.

TalentLMS
Epignosis LLC
315 Montgomery Street, 9th Floor
San Francisco, California
CA 94104
USA
(+1) 646 797 2799
www.talentlms.com

CoreAxis

CoreAxis aim to deliver cost-effective corporate compliance training and a range of solutions to drive productivity throughout a client’s business. They work to transform organizations through leading edge learning solutions.

CoreAxis is a leader in innovative, immersive learning programs tailored for business requirements. They aim to provide world-class custom elearning development solutions that drive improvements in the performance of their clients’ people.

17 Skylar Drive
Southborough
Massachusetts
01772
Tel: (508) 485 8660
coreaxis.com

SweetRush

SweetRush is a top corporate training company trusted by a range of Fortune 500 companies to improve their employee performance through some of the best custom elearning development solutions.

1728 Ocean Ave
#366
San Francisco
CA 94112
Tel: 4156471956
www.sweetrush.com

Cornerstone On Demand

Cornerstone’s leading talent management system provides recruitment, training, HRb management, and team collaboration solutions for all business sizes.

Cornerstone OnDemand® (NASDAQ: CSOD) helps organizations to recruit, train, and manage their people as effectively as possible.

They work with hundreds of the world’s largest companies, from Walgreens and Starwood Hotels & Resorts to Deutsche Post DHL and Western Union. They also support thousands of smaller organisations to help them engage their workforces and empower their people.

1601 Cloverfield Blvd
Suite 600 South
Santa Monica
CA 90404
Tel: +1 (888) 365-2763
www.cornerstoneondemand.com

Allen Communications Learning Services

AllenComm designs, develops, and deploys innovative corporate training solutions. They help many organizations to transform their training content and implementation practices.

AllenComm is a digital learning agency that creates custom training programs. They help large companies work better by transforming their content into performance-based elearning experiences.

Salt Lake City
Utah
United States
Tel: (801) 537-7800
www.allencomm.com

CrossKnowledge

CrossKnowledge Learning Solutions are the trusted partner of many US and global organizations, helping L&D managers and learners to acquire the skills they need to succeed.

CrossKnowledge partners with large corporations to provide digital learning solutions to enable the success of individuals, teams and organizations through the best systems and processes skills acquisition. They work to deliver Integrated Learning Experiences to help your workforce acquire the skills they need to succeed.

111 River Street
Hoboken, NJ
07030-5774
Tel: +1-585-406-7211
www.crossknowledge.com/

Solo Learning

Solo have worked with organizations across all industries to design quality content, engaging eLearning modules and informative instructional materials that empower employees and drive performance and deliver desired and sustainable results.
They use a collaborative approach for the design and development process. They partner with clients to ensure:
• Each deliverable meets client expectations;
• Pre-planning, communication and risks are managed effectively;
• Project is on time and within budget.

There are a variety of factors that are considered when determining your custom eLearning solution. They begin with understanding your corporate culture, evaluating your content and understanding the desired learning objectives.

They work with you to determine the appropriate level of interactivity and complexity required to achieve your goals. They ensure the proper combination of interface design, type and volume of graphics and media, instructional strategies, quality of current content, as well as the complexity of the desired user interactions for a finished product that truly changes the way your employees learn. ”

info@sololearning.com
2060 North Loop West, Suite 110
Houston, TX 77018
Tel: 713.402.1900
www.sololearning.com/

Aims Digital

Aims has spent over a decade creating meaningful learning experiences for customers across business verticals. Aims Digital possesses expertise in custom and rapid eLearning development, and learning solutions design. Apart from learning solution services, Aims Digital also offers the Vowel LMS – a learning management system that tracks all forms of media (including documents, presentations, video, and audio content) apart from standard compliant eLearning assets.
Aims Digital LLC
124 Exeter Road
New Market
NH 03857
USA
Tel: +1-603-292-3934
info@aimsdigital.com
www.aimsdigital.com

Paradiso Solutions

Paradiso is a Silicon Valley based elearning product and services company. They provide end-to-end solutions to educational institutions and specialise in elearning Gamification. Paradiso Solutions provides blended learning management through mobile learning and cloud based LMS.

Some key features:

• Distance Learning
• Virtual Classroom
• e–Campus
• e–Assessments
• e–Portfolio
• Course Development / Course Composer

Address: United States Paradiso Solutions LLC
548 Market St
#13781 San Francisco
CA 94104

Call: +1 800 513 5902
Email: sales@paradisosolutions.com
www.paradisosolutions.com

ej4

ej4 is a US-based micro-course provider founded in 2004. Their goal is to replace expensive, time-consuming and ineffective instructor-led training with short, video-based learning content that enables any time, anywhere learning.

Focusing on the 4 “J’s” (just as needed, just enough, just in time, and just right), ej4 first launched their elearning programs and platform comprising entirely custom content. Since then, the goal of ej4 has evolved into increasing the knowledge and capabilities of employees and leaders through research-based micro-courses.

ej4 is now a leader within the field of skillset improvement. They average over 500 videos created annually via client projects, as well as regular updates to their own library of over 3,300 off-the-shelf courses. The company goal is to create training content that positively impacts the way organizations learn and perform.

With headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, ej4 is now a part of HSI.

Call: (800) 566-3159
ej4.com

Blackboard Inc

Blackboard is a developer of education software with their headquarters in Washington DC. Blackboard are most notable for providing their proprietary Learning Management System to schools, universities and some corporations.

Blackboard Inc offer six main platforms Blackboard Learn, Blackboard Transact, Blackboard Connect, Blackboard Mobile, Blackboard Collaborate and Blackboard Analytics.

Blackboard Inc.
650 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.
6th Floor
Washington, DC 20001-3796
U.S.A.
Tel: 1-202-463-4860
www.blackboard.com

SumTotal Systems

This is a software company based in Gainesville Florida that provide enterprise learning solutions to corporations of a variety of different sizes. The company uses the SaaS (Software as a Service) model to provide content to their clients. SumTotal offer both course content and Learning Managment Systems as part of their end-to-end solutions. You can find a more in depth company profile here.

2850 NW 43rd Street
Suite #200, Gainesville
FL 32606 USA
Tel: +1 352 264 2800

Qustn Technologies Inc

Qustn builds mobile and web products in the HR technology space. Their first product – Qtrain – is a SaaS LMS, and it enables e-learning and engagement, allowing seamless delivery and tracking of various training modules aiding in recruitment, onboarding and assessments. Users can train anyone anywhere on any platform – mobile or web – usually at a cost less than a coffee.Apart from providing various learning and engagement solutions to global enterprises, Qustn also provides this product in a SaaS format, in a never-seen-before pay-per-use model.

2600 EI Camino Real
Suite 403
Palo Alto
CA 94306
United States of America
Email: info@qustn.com

Taleo

Taleo provides a number of end-to-end products for the management and training of corporate workforces. They provide solutions for talent management, recruiting, sourcing, assessment, onboarding, goals, performance, succession, development, learning, compensation and analytics.

4140 Dublin Boulevard
Suite 400
Dublin, CA 94568
United States
Tel + 888 836 3669
Tel: + 925 452 3000
www.taleo.com

Saba

Saba provides software cloud based solutions for learning & development, talent management, testing, assessment, online collaboration and enterprise social networking. They provide products that cater to a variety of different industries and were founded in 1997 in California.

Saba Software Inc.
2400 Bridge Parkway
Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
Tel: +1650.581.2500
www.saba.com

THORS eLearning Solutions

Thors is a specialist in online education, applications and productivity tools, related to the manufacturing industry. One of the top elearning companies in the USA for specific industries, they offer relevant courses across many manufacturing industries that rapidly increase the Manufacturing IQ of the entire organization. They aim to bridge the knowledge and skills gap in the manufacturing industry by training new and existing personnel to create a highly efficient workforce.

Thors
5054 Paramount Blvd.
Medina
OH 44256
United States
www.thors.com

If you’re looking for a top elearning company in the USA, then one of these excellent online education and training solution providers should be able to help you.

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The most popular of these training courses is the CIWM / WAMITAB Level 4 qualification, which is often referred to as the CoTC – Certificate of Technical Competence. Every waste management or recycling facility must have an accredited professional working on site for at least 20% of the time.

This must be someone who has the required training, knowledge and skill to govern safe working procedures.

WAMITAB is now integrated into the CIWM – Chartered Institution of Wastes Management – so any qualifications completed or in progress are equally recognised by all bodies.

CIWM WAMITAB qualifications demonstrate that you have the level of knowledge and skills required for ensuring that a waste site fully complies with the Environmental Permitting Regulations (2007).

CIWM / WAMITAB Approved Centre

Learning Light is an approved CIWM / WAMITAB Centre providing Statutory and Non-Statutory (Voluntary) qualifications that are listed on the Quality Curriculum Framework (QCF).

We offer accredited training that is evidenced by the learner with traditional paperwork, but we are also able to deliver the WAMITAB / CIWM qualification online if you prefer. An on-site assessor visit is required at the start and final assessment, plus any additional points in the process where support is required.

This can make WAMITAB training much more convenient for the learner and much less disruptive for the employer.

As well as making training and assessments as convenient as possible alongside your work, we ensure that WAMITAB and CIWM courses with Learning Light are competitively priced.

Site Owners / Managers

If you do not hold a CoTC, you or a designated person will be required to demonstrate competence based on the Risk Tier for your facility.

High risk

Typical businesses are full-service waste transfer stations, including those that deal with hazardous waste, such as asbestos.
You will be required to achieve a 12 Unit QCF qualification.
£2987 including learner registration, training and assessment.

Medium risk

Typical companies are non-hazardous waste transfer stations, such as car breakers.
You will be required to achieve a 6 Unit QCF qualification.
£1793 including learner registration, training and assessment.

Low risk

Such as scrap dealers and rock or metal recovery companies.
You will be required to achieve a 4 Unit QCF qualification.
£1395 including learner registration, training and assessment.

All prices are exclusive of VAT.

Please note – assessors will be travelling from Sheffield and travel time is charged at £35 per hour and £0.45 per mile. Travel and mileage is not subject to VAT.
We make every effort to ensure that travel time is kept to a minimum. 

For more information, Contact Us at Learning Light for a no-obligations discussion about your needs.

We have provided CIWM / WAMITAB training and qualifications in most regions of the UK:

• Scotland
• Northern Ireland
• East of England, including Cambridgeshire and Norfolk
• Midlands – including Birmingham, Shropshire and Staffordshire in the West Midlands, and Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands
• Yorkshire (North, South, East, West) – including Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and Sheffield in South Yorkshire
• North East – including Tyne & Wear, Northumberland and County Durham
• North West – including Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire and Liverpool / Merseyside
• South East – including London, Essex and Hampshire.

Please email info@learninglight.com for more information or call us on: 0114 307 2358 to check on the right course for your role and facility.

Learning Light is CIWM & WAMITAB approved centre number 139/88.

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Get in touch for an initial, no-obligation chat about your waste management training needs.

Just Need the Continuing Competence / CoTC Refresher?

The WAMITAB Continuing Competence – also known as the CoTC Refresher course – is conducted directly through the WAMITAB website and is bookable online here.

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All organisations, irrespective of their size or sector, critically need robust cyber security training. Such training serves as a shield for your data, systems, and workforce against a wide array of threats including phishing, malware, and social engineering scams.

What should cyber security training include?

A comprehensive cyber security training curriculum incorporates several key elements:

• Cyber Security Awareness: This training provides employees with an understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals, like crafting robust passwords, identifying phishing emails, and defending their gadgets against malware.
• Incident Handling: This training educates employees about appropriate responses in the event of a cybersecurity incident, such as a data compromise or a malware invasion.
• Social Engineering: This training imparts skills to employees to recognize and avoid social engineering strikes, like phishing emails and fraudulent phone calls.
• Technical Skills: This training instructs employees on employing specific security apparatus and technologies, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus software. In addition to these components, optimal cybersecurity training ought to be:

Tips for effective cyber security training

• Make it Frequent: Given the rapid evolution of cybersecurity threats, it’s crucial to deliver ongoing training to employees to keep them informed about emerging threats and best practices.
• Make it Interactive: A tedious or complicated training is unlikely to be fruitful. Ensure your training is dynamic and engaging to maintain employees’ focus. David reviewed a cyber security elearning game that even makes this usually-dry topic fun. Cyber Crime Time is innovative training from imc Learning that puts learner in the shoes of a hacker. This role-reversal is a clever way for the learner to develop a deeper understanding of cyber threats.
• Make it Role-Specific: The training content should correspond with the employees’ roles and tasks. For instance, IT personnel might require more intensive training on technical security protocols, while sales staff might require more training on identifying phishing emails.
• Make it Measurable: It’s vital to gauge the effectiveness of your training initiative. This can be accomplished by assessing employee knowledge and conduct, as well as by keeping tabs on security occurrences.

Integrating these aspects into your cyber security training programme can significantly enhance your organisation’s resistance to diverse threats.

Here are some final pointers for devising a successful cyber security training programme:

• Secure buy-in from senior leadership. Cyber security is a collective obligation, and hence, the backing of senior management is imperative for your training initiative.
• Customise the training based on your specific requirements. Every organisation is unique, necessitating tailored training to address specific, relevant needs and risks.
• Leverage diverse training techniques. With multiple ways to deliver training, using a mix of methods can keep employees engaged. Different people may find text, audio, images or video-based learning content – or any combination of these – work best for them for knowledge retention.
• Facilitate easy access to training. Irrespective of their location or device, employees should find the training content readily accessible. Give your employees access to online cyber security courses and they’ll be able to access the learning materials when and where it suits their schedule.

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In the last few years, the idea of adaptive learning has gained more and more interest due to new product developments, the creation of partnerships between elearning software providers and content publishers, and significant investment by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in this area of education and training.

This is likely the future of corporate training and academic education, but we may not all be living in the future quite yet.

Adaptive Learning Definition

You may have heard of adaptive learning, or any of its many synonyms and related concepts – such as adaptive instruction, personalised learning or intelligent tutoring systems. What the term exactly means however is still unclear to many.

The basic premise of adaptive learning is to use technology to improve education and training by providing individualised programmes to students based on data that is gathered both before and throughout the learning process.

The best adaptive learning platforms use some form of data mining to put together education or training content for students that’s optimised for their unique needs. The platform uses data that it continually gathers when a student interacts with any learning content.

Such a platform can determine which learning activities, delivered through what medium and in what sequence, will help improve the student’s learning.

Each student goes through a highly individualised education or training experience, which should provide much better learning results.

Does it Work?

Research on the benefits of adaptive learning is extremely promising. One study by Education Growth Advisors (EGA) showed that since forming a partnership with Knewton (a personalised learning platform provider), pass rates at Arizona State University have gone up by 18 percent and withdrawals from maths courses have reduced by 47 percent.

Merck found that adaptive simulations for mandatory training was 15X faster than instructor-led training, while bringing a 21% improvement in performance scores.

After Smart Sparrow tutorials were used in an engineering course at the University of New South Wales, drop outs decreased by 55 percent.

A number of interesting elearning companies, such as Area9 Lyceum, ETU and Filtered are using tech to create impactful, date-driven learning experiences.

What’s the Catch?

Careful preparation and execution is vital to the success of an adaptive and personalised learning implementation. Learning institutions have to work closely together with platform providers in order to set up a learning environment that achieves the envisioned results.

This mode of learning also only provides limited benefit for entry-level courses, which makes it more difficult to scale.

With new digital learning providers entering the market, AI powering ever faster data processing, and partnerships between platform providers and learning organisations being set up all the time, it looks like adaptive and personalised learning experiences are here to stay and develop.

This addition to the L&D toolkit is well on its way to revolutionising the entire education and training sector, even though there is still a long way to go until it becomes the standard for corporate and academic learning.

If you are working in the education or training industry, now is the time to get involved in adaptive and personalised learning if you want to be ahead of the curve.

Further Reading:

Adaptive learning tech and education – insights from the Google blog on how this technology can save teachers time and provide data around how students learn.

Adaptive Learning advice and resources on the ETU website.

If you would like to find out more about the latest and best in learning technology, please Contact Us here at Learning Light.

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It combines learning management, upskilling & career development, employee engagement and performance reviews into one easy to use solution.

Learn Amp is a mid-market “Swiss Army knife” of a platform, which elegantly solves a multitude of problems for employee-focused organisations and supports individuals to learn in the context of their career.

Learn Amp offers Learn, a highly configurable and easy to administrate learning platform with a clean and intuitive UX and Develop to aid skills development and career progression.

To amplify the employee value proposition, they have Connect for sophisticated community and social tools, and Perform to support skills development, objective setting, and performance reviews.

A “people development platform”

Learn Amp like to think of their platform as a “people development platform” – one that will help businesses and organisations to retain great talent. They believe that the four pillars of the employee experience – learning, development, engagement, and performance – are intrinsically linked and should work together to retain that talent.

To help achieve this they have four products on offer, each one designed to develop one of these pillars:

• Learn – their LMS / LXP
• Develop – their skills development and progression tool
• Connect – their suite of social learning tools
• Perform – performance reviews, objective setting, and skills development tools to track skills across your business.

To complement these products, they also offer additional bolt-ons for CPD, multi-accounts, languages, and custom domains.

Learn Amp’s customer base is concentrated in the mid-market (although they have customers with as few as 250 employees and their biggest to date has around 45k, so they can easily manage scale) and internal use cases for employee-focused organisations. An important exception is training and coaching for external learning communities, such as customer or partner communities.

They are very much focused on career management, motivating people through what matters most in their lives, with recognition and progression, and developing in a way that’s aligned to their career aspirations and purpose.

With their focus on helping employees develop their career, Learn Amp is certainly a vendor that should be on your long list if you’re an organisation in their sweet spot of 500 – 5,000 employees and with an L&D strategy to improve performance. They are often best when replacing a previous system, where more educated buyers who have a better understanding of what they need have outgrown their previous solutions and recognise the extra value that Learn Amp can bring.

I would also add that Learn is an excellent LMS / LXP hybrid, combining the ease of everything you would expect from an LMS with the high-end UX and content delivery of an LXP.

Designed to promote motivational career development

A key mission statement for Learn Amp is “learning in the context of your career”, enabling their clients to really support individuals with whatever skills they need. This emphasises their focus on the employee use case.

Perhaps unusually amongst learning solution providers, Learn Amp are not huge fans of gamification. They have previously described it as being all a bit “gimmicky”, and instead would rather focus on designing tools that intrinsically motivate people, which creates more sustainable long-term engagement.

They often talk about the “science and soul of learning”, and by this they mean the idea of developing the tools to motivate individuals through progression and recognition, which are aligned to their own purpose and meaning. Their big question is always, “how do you connect with what actually motivates people to learn?”

They do have leaderboards, which is something that one could argue is a gamification tool. However, their persuasive counterpoint to this is that these are for motivating employees through recognition and enabling learning with peers, rather than tools to shame employees into greater productivity.

Their concept of a “Hierarchy of Engagement” is very interesting, a kind of learning version of Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs”, with the LMS as the base layer, and it is really focused on helping organisations to amplify their employee value proposition as they increase their learning culture maturity.

Their Connect suite of social learning tools has a huge amount of different touch points and includes a feature best described as an internal LinkedIn. Individuals can have profile pages, follow and connect with SMEs, mentors, and thought leaders in your organisation, upload user generated content, and engage in communities that can be fully open or controlled based on the use case and need.

A “Swiss Army knife” of a solution

Learn Amp pride themselves on trying to understand a problem and then building very flexible solutions that not only meet that immediate need, but also lots of others, and this can be seen by the fact that their platform is being utilised and used in a wide variety of different sectors.

Clients in a highly regulated space with a focus on compliance and CPD want an LMS, but because they are forward-thinking, they recognise that Learn Amp will provide them with the future proofing that they need. These might include industries like financial services, cybersecurity, construction, architecture, and professional services.

Then you also have their products in businesses where knowledge transfer is essential and compliance is much more of a secondary concern. For example, involving more of a bottom-up knowledge transfer approach utilising all that user generated content, and this might include organisations like management consultancies, advertising agencies and organisations in the engineering, computer software, and gaming sectors etc.

These tend to be attracted by the idea of how Learn Amp can help them create a culture of organic learning, where individuals and communities drive each other’s development instead of it being a more top-down approach.

Learn Amp provide a high degree of configurability and flexibility around widgets. There is a vast number of different widgets on offer that can be pulled into a large number of different dashboards to suit the needs of varied audiences.

Not only is this a versatile solution to meet the needs of different organisations and the varied audiences within them, but also brilliant for change management and allowing organisations to introduce things at a sensible pace, and evolving and scaling whilst also future proofing their needs.

They like to say that you can almost build your system pretty much bespoke to meet your current needs wherever you are in your journey and maturity. You can turn lots of things off to keep it simple to begin with, safe in the knowledge that your needs are future proofed.

Another USP is the consolidation benefit of having an all-in-one solution that might enable organisations to dispose of other systems and not have so many. For example, the Connect module is great for enabling the delivery of internal comms and setting up and sending out surveys on a large scale.

It also enables a lot of different touch points for people to interact with SMEs, comment on content, and to interact with each other and in the community area.

The Pioneers of “Software with a Service”

Learn Amp were the first to coin the term, “Software with a Service” (or SWAS), which means they are not only extremely focused on implementing the best software solution for their clients, but also giving them the guidance and coaching to ensure its implementation and adoption is a success.

So interestingly all their internal roles are in effect “coaches”. For example, Sales Solution Coaches, Customer Success Coaches etc.

This very collaborative partnership approach with their clients is a huge USP for them and has been witnessed by Learn Fox during LMS selection processes. They don’t provide a “managed service” as such, which would mean doing everything for the client or even administrating their system.

Instead, they offer what they describe as a “supported self-serve” model, as they believe ownership must ultimately rest with the customer who has the knowledge of their own business, but they are there to provide very hands-on expert industry advice throughout the journey.

The people employed into the Learn Amp team do all tend to have a background in L&D or education, so this enables them to provide a very supportive consultancy focus. I think a retention rate of around 96% speaks for itself.

Features to aid a “decentralised” learning strategy

Learn Amp’s products enable organisations to deploy a decentralised learning strategy, allowing individual teams to have more ownership over their own content and administrative processes. They believe this is critical for modern organisations trying to best adapt to the major changes that have resulted from hybrid and remote working models.

It is so much harder to train and coach now, as not everyone is in the same space. So, their answer is a more inverted model which is employee and manager led and L&D supported.

This can also save huge amounts of time and admin for L&D so that they can focus on higher value work and deliver more impact with less resource. This is most obviously shown through their admin and authoring experience.

With the admin experience, the first thing that stands out is that there is no separate admin console, or a separate area that administrators have to go into and create and design things before pushing them out and then logging in to see how they look. Instead, it is completely integrated, so that if you have admin rights you can simply open a little admin pop up menu (by clicking the 3 pips on a particular object) that enables you to edit and interact with content and items within the platform on whatever page you are on.

Very little training is needed, meaning that lots of different SMEs, trainers, or other people across the business can undertake admin tasks in the platform. To enable this ease of use, their aim has been to produce tools that are “consumer grade” – the kind of tools that might be familiar to users in their day to day lives, like Spotify for example.

Learn Amp don’t have an inbuilt elearning authoring tool and they don’t pretend to have authoring capability, which is another example of their philosophy of being very focused on the things they do best, rather than spreading themselves too thinly. What they do offer however are in-built micro-authoring capabilities and a huge wealth of functionality that enables the creation of pages, surveys, and modulated learning content very much in the format one would expect from a SCORM file.

They provide an easy page builder as well as video and audio creation tools and the ability to create short form content. All this plays into the decentralised strategy because you’re not limited to a small team using an external authoring tool.

Instead these tools are intuitive and easy to use, which means that in theory anybody in the organisation, like SMEs or trainers, could easily create their own content. They don’t have to be learning designers or have learning development skills.

Focus on what they do best – and partner for the rest

Learn Amp have always been focused on what they do best, and they believe they are a “best in breed” platform, with a “best in breed” learning ecosystem of partners that compliment them and integrate seamlessly. They are not an elearning authoring tool, they are not content producers, not a talent management suite or an ERP, and they don’t try to be.

Instead, what they do have is a suite of tools (Learn, Develop, Connect and Perform) that solve a whole host of problems for many organisations. Additionally, they also have a variety of really good content partners – niche providers like Pluralsight and Udemy for Business, some all-in-one offerings for small to medium businesses like iAM Learning and GoodHabitz, and good consolidated aggregated content providers like Go1 (and coming soon, OpenSesame).

So not only do they provide brilliant solutions via their own software, but they partner where they need to, not just for content but also with other tools and consultants who can help to provide that software with a service approach that they pride themselves on.

The Learn Amp Roadmap

Learn Amp are very transparent and open about what they are trying to develop, and they are always responsive to the requirements and needs of their client base. This is amply demonstrated through them making their product Roadmap available.

Some of the new features highlighted by their Roadmap include 360 feedback, a new addition to their suite of performance tools, while praise and recognition functionality (shout-outs) is being brought into their suite of social tools. They also have a new BI tool enabling the conversion of data sources to provide trends and insights and visualised analytics.

Managers can already create their own dashboards, which is a great USP for the decentralised strategy, but with the BI tool this will enable administrators to create more complex and sophisticated visual analytics for different audiences.

Being a “future focused” vendor means that Learn Amp are also spending time considering how best to harness the power of generative AI. Examples might include the addition of a coaching tool, a search assistant, or a form of content creation.

They are also exploring the idea of generating a live dynamic skills taxonomy that never goes out of date.

In Summary

If you’re looking for an all-in-one solution to deliver all the features you’d expect from LMS, LXP, social learning and performance management software, then in Learn Amp – you’ve found it.

Rather than simply rolling out training materials en masse, Learn Amp is about motivating employees to learn for their own professional development, and encouraging peer to peer knowledge sharing through its social learning tools.

By leveraging the latest training technologies and layering on the potential of generative AI, it provides a future-proof employee engagement and learning platform that can scale up with you as your people and organisation grow.

Learn more about this great solution over on the Learn Amp website.

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The other three of those are:

• Micro-Learning (not quite so new I know, but certainly becoming more effective)
• Binge Learning or ‘cinematic style learning’ (snappier name suggestions welcomed) – a little like binge watching the high quality productions on Netflix and in some ways the antithesis of micro-learning
• and the fourth genre of the big four being Curated Learning.

There is solid evidence that these genres all work – the trick is knowing which genre to apply to which learning requirement.

So, what does Immersive Learning mean?

Immersive learning is pretty flexible and fuzzy term in some ways, but will contain elements such as scenarios, 360-degree images and video content, simulations and contextually-relevant games.

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are becoming more common, along with Mixed Reality arriving sooner than perhaps realised. The overarching term for all 3 is known as Extended Reality or XR.

Learnovate, the research team at Trinity College in Dublin, conducted research into the features, benefits and accessibility of types of immersive learning mentioned above, creating this table on their attributes:

The principle point of immersive learning is a very high degree of relevance to the learner, in order to deliver engagement, as well as effectiveness.

Leading Immersive Learning Companies

So here is our list of some of the world’ top Immersive Learning providers to consider if you are looking at this type of training. These companies have real capabilities in Immersive Learning development and delivery, and are certainly worth a look.

All have different areas of expertise and we present them in no particular order, so do browse all of them to see which company could be a good fit for your needs.

Learning Simulation Platform (LSP) – ETU

Empower The User Limited (ETU) is a multi-award winning immersive learning and simulation based training company.

They have created an innovative immersive learning development environment that enables clients to develop custom simulations to cater for virtually any training need, including the likes of:

• Leadership Behavior
• Compliance & Risk Management
• B2B Sales & Customer Service
• Employee Onboarding
• Digital Transformation
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

Here’s a 2-minute intro to the company:

ETU have an impressive client base of some of the world’s best known brands, across dynamic and challenging sectors such as business consulting, finance, technology and more. They have also published this comprehensive guide to immersive learning for corporate training needs. It offers a definition of the concept and suggests appropiate types of immersive learning for different training.

Learn more about this exciting immersive learning and simulation company on the ETU website.

Immersive eLearning Content from Blend

By adding interactivity to your training so that learners get a more immersive experience by learning through doing, rather than just passively consuming content, you can dramatically improve learning outcomes.

It is with this in mind that Brendan Cox and Tom Payani created Blend Interactive Content.

These experts in elearning content development, uses tools such as AR training solutions to deliver a truly immersive learning experience.

Drawing on 15 years of Education and Design experience working for major brands like the BBC, these UK elearning developers now work 100% remotely to provide interactive elearning experiences to clients across the globe.

You can get a feel for Brendan’s approach in this article he wrote for our website on custom content vs off the shelf elearning and deciding how to choose the best solution for your training needs.

As a small, boutique elearning studio, Blend is able to offer high-end elearning design, without the usual high-end cost of working with a large elearning agency.

Learn more about Blend Interactive Content on their website.

Applio

Applio has built out a model or approach to allow for the rapid development and deployment of games with its Games Based Learning platform. This is a pretty slick approach to getting into games and immersive learning environments and Applio deserves some real credit for this approach to making gaming and immersive learning so accessible.
www.applio.net

Day One

This is an interesting company that specialises in really effective simulations. They have a fantastic skillset in simulating software and in-house systems.

For example, call centre system simulations allow agents to train using mock customer engagements, with colleagues playing the roles of customers. Day One have delivered call centre training using simulation to some of the UK’s leading call centre operators, with a client base that includes the likes of Lloyds, Co-operative Bank and TSB.

In the field of healthcare, they have helped global companies such as Linde and Roche in onboarding staff with new hardware, and with new in-house CRM software.

Day One have created simulation training and immersive learning experiences that have demonstrated measurable reductions in time to competency and trainee attrition, while increasing learner confidence with new systems.

This is one of the most innovative and effective immersive learning solution providers we know.
www.dayonetech.com

elearning Studios

A long established elearning developer, but in the last 4 years they have become true experts in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. The quality of the learning environments, whether using Google Carboard or Samsung’s Galaxy Gears, or indeed Oculus Rift is quite breath-taking. In utilising the xAPI protocol to an LRS to report the learner’s behaviours this company can support training at a micro level where changing a behaviour can save lives, this is premium compliance par excellence and just so so immersive.
www.e-learningstudios.com

Growth Engineering

This company has long been a market leader with its very excellent Gamified LMS, but that is not all. Growth Engineering has pioneered modern and engaging UI and UX and has built Genie an authoring tool that will create game based learning experiences with templates and workflows to allow for the creation of rapid game based learning solutions. This should be part of the toolkit of any Immersive Learning orientated project.
www.growthengineering.co.uk

Immerse

A fully focused VR developer delivering high quality projects to major corporates who have grasped what this style of learning can do. They also have a VR orientated platform that allows for the distribution of VR experiences and interactions, including multi user VR sessions.

This is an exceptionally high quality company, delivering exceptionally high quality learning experiences in VR for simulation training experiences.
immerse.io

Preloaded

Part of the market leading Learning Technologies Group, Preloaded has real pedigree in both Games – games with purpose as they put it – and VR. With a fabulous library of case studies illustrating the challenges to be addressed and the solutions developed illustrate some real capability. If you are looking for ideas and examples –
take a look.
preloaded.com

Cue Interactive

Led by some of the leading visionaries in games and learning, Cue Interactive have produced some hugely significant simulations and games for clients that must be incredibly demanding as to the outcomes – think aircraft maintenance for example…
cueinteractive.co.uk

Totem

The UK pioneers of what we called Serious Games. Indeed, Helen Routledge has done more than anyone else in our industry to evidence the effect games can have on learning and the evidence she presents is compelling. You can buy her book here. Totem have built some superb games for clients over several years delivering compelling game play with powerful learning results. True experts at their craft.
www.totemlearning.com

Virtual College

This company has been quietly developing considerable development capacity to be a full service Immersive learning developer. Simulations of using and maintaining complex hardware systems I have been shown illustrate real immersive learning design capabilities.
www.virtual-college.co.uk

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