Happy New Year to all! While it’s hard to believe another year has come and gone, we’re excited for what’s in store for 2019. We thought it would be a great time to reflect on some of the common themes we uncovered in 2018, all of which we believe to be driving forces in the online learning landscape this coming year.

LMS stands for Learning Management System, some of which you can use to create and track training anywhere, on any type of device. Many organizations that use eLearning leverage an LMS, including businesses, corporations, organization, and educational institutions.

Whether they’re preparing for a professional exam or learning a new skill on the job, mastering new concepts successfully is the end goal for any learner. Self-assessment is a valuable tool in that it shows the learner whether or not they are on track to meet their goals, while also helping them focus their study time on the areas necessary to help improve their learning outcome.

Signing up for a certification exam is an important first step toward a professional milestone. Certifications are increasingly required to reinforce credentials and to help advance careers, however competing priorities in a professional’s busy life can often impact completion. Mitigating factors are usually to blame for candidates abandoning their goals and failing to sit for their exams, however for every candidate that drops out, your bottom line takes a hit, making it critical to support candidates through the entire preparation process.

A learning management system is an easy way to use and track online training initiatives that are easily accessible to learners. Learning management systems are used primarily for administration, documentation, tracking, and reporting for educational courses, training programs, or learning and development programs.

Faced with high quotas in an ever-changing buying environment, sales professionals are constantly juggling their time between selling and training. On top of their own time constraints, a recent study shows that four out of five companies agree that they are not able to train as many salespeople as they’d like on the skills their employees need. Lack of adequate training leads executives and managers to worry about knowledge gaps and their long-term impact on growth. In an effort to keep sales teams agile and competitive, sales organizations are searching for ways to improve their learning programs fast.