Editorial

During the last few years, e-Learning has emerged and has definitely settled in the training landscape. According to a Training Mag report on US e-Learning market, 30% of training in 2007 was delivered online, including self-paced e-Learning and live virtual classroom. Europe lags on e-Learning adoption compared to United States but e-Learning usage is expected to grow significantly in the next years.

According to a Global Industry Analysts report, “the increasing number of offerings from content providers, service providers, and technology providers is widening the choice of learning solutions“. However, the e-Learning market is highly fragmented and is still consolidating. We have identified more that 200 learning management systems (LMS) and more than 80 authoring tools, making learning technology choices more complex than ever.

Moreover, “lack of interoperable standards amongst e-Learning solutions and technologies is a major obstacle to growth”, according to the Global Industry Analysts report. Standardization bodies make huge efforts to build consistent specifications. Some of them, like SCORM 1.2, are now well adopted. However, most of them are like-known or misunderstood while their adoption would be a guaranty of durability.

KNOWLEDGE DECISION thinks that e-Learning adopters and providers need more than ever to be assisted in their choices in order to make their projects a success.

Sébastien FRAYSSE
Director / Consultant

 


Biography

Sebastien Fraysse is an independent consultant, expert in e-learning technology and director of KNOWLEDGE DECISION.

Holder of a Master's degree in computer science, he evolved during 8 years in multimedia and e-learning companies working as a developer, project manager, technical director and consultant.

He ran the development of several innovative training applications for the aerospace industry and took part in some of the AICC works. He also ran R&D and technological watch activities on e-Learning tools.

In 2008, he creates the KNOWLEDGE DECISION company and develops a consulting activity to help organizations in their e-Learning initiatives.

The e-Learning IT expert understands the needs of the technology involved in learning content development. S/he is familiar with e-Learning standards, including recognized global standards and practices. As technology moves at a high speed, the IT expert should keep abreast of the latest development and standards in the world, and the future of this area. S/he should understand the current infrastructure of the organization, and how the new tool might impact on it. S/he provides the consultancy to the selection team in this area of expertise. As the selection and implementation process might take a long while before it is used, the IT expert should advise on the durability of the tool and technology selected.

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