I worked in e-learning for several years for a company that sold into corporate clients. Here are a couple of things that struck me from that experience:
* How do you integrate with my Active Directory users?
* I want to import these courses I've designed into my learning management system. Can I do that?
* Do you support SCORM or AICC? Hint: Focus on SCORM. :-)
* Can I test users at the end of the course / during the course?
* Can I let users re-take a test, or block them from retaking a test?
* Every client wants to track and test in different ways.
Finally, when times are hard, the first thing that gets a budget cut in large companies is training (and e-learning expenditure as part of that).
I've seen various "successful" businesses fail in this market niche, usually when the economy is getting hit hard.
If you can make a success of this during the hard times, you'll be golden for the good times!
Hi there thanks for commenting! I think there's a bit of a disconnect between the stuff you mention here and what our target market is going to use/need.
We're aiming squarely at hobbyists/independent people who want to share/sell their knowledge of things like: knitting, painting, gardening, cooking, small renovation projects, setting up a home theater, and so on. There's no testing at all, in fact!
Ultimately I don't think myself or my wife are in a position to make an appropriate product for the corporate e-learning market. Long story short - neither of us lasted long at the corporate/cube jobs we had after finishing school years ago, and stuff like Active Directory and corporate training programs are pretty far from our minds at this point :)
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I worked in e-learning for several years for a company that sold into corporate clients. Here are a couple of things that struck me from that experience:
* How do you integrate with my Active Directory users?
* I want to import these courses I've designed into my learning management system. Can I do that?
* Do you support SCORM or AICC? Hint: Focus on SCORM. :-)
* Can I test users at the end of the course / during the course?
* Can I let users re-take a test, or block them from retaking a test?
* Every client wants to track and test in different ways.
Finally, when times are hard, the first thing that gets a budget cut in large companies is training (and e-learning expenditure as part of that).
I've seen various "successful" businesses fail in this market niche, usually when the economy is getting hit hard.
If you can make a success of this during the hard times, you'll be golden for the good times!
Hi there thanks for commenting! I think there's a bit of a disconnect between the stuff you mention here and what our target market is going to use/need.
We're aiming squarely at hobbyists/independent people who want to share/sell their knowledge of things like: knitting, painting, gardening, cooking, small renovation projects, setting up a home theater, and so on. There's no testing at all, in fact!
Ultimately I don't think myself or my wife are in a position to make an appropriate product for the corporate e-learning market. Long story short - neither of us lasted long at the corporate/cube jobs we had after finishing school years ago, and stuff like Active Directory and corporate training programs are pretty far from our minds at this point :)