I just ran across Litmos. This is a fully online, hosted LMS. I haven’t had a chance to check it out (there is a 14 day free trial) but it is interesting because it seems to be mostly marketed at corporate training and for-profit providers. Every course is accessible by mobile devices and they have an API that developers can use. However the cheapest plan, $49/mo, allows only 5 users. Approaching a normal class size, 25, costs $99 per month. Clearly not something the average faculty member can just decide to pay for out of pocket.

There seems to be this kind of wall between traditional educational institutions where learning is delivered by people calling themselves professors and those institutions where learning is delivered by people calling themselves trainers.

I often feel that there isn’t enough communication and collaboration between the two sides even though we are doing much the same thing although with different budgetes, mandates, timelines and learning objectives.

Of course, I haven’t done anything to bridge the gap either.