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Difference between SCORM, xAPI, LTI and cmi5 eLearning Standards

SCORM vs xAPI vs cmi5 vs LTI: Difference & Use Cases

If you prioritize compatibility and interoperability of your eLearning product, you save hours both for educators and users and make your product a future-proof investment. The point is to select the right eLearning standards that will reinforce your product. This guide will help you see the difference among the most popular standards (SCORM, LTI, xAPI, cmi5, and its predecessor AICC) and when you need to apply each of them.

Alexander Kosarev • 8 min read

What is Artificial Intelligence? AI vs Traditional Software

According to the results of the recent Gartner’s benchmarked survey “AI Strategy: Where Your Competitors Are Investing”, there is a growing number of companies that are planning to build out and deploy AI. A deep understanding of the main difference between the possibilities of AI software and “traditional” software can help to separate AI hype from reality.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 14 min read

Artificial intelligence in education

$30 billion of value by 2032 and rising demand - all of this makes the development and deployment of AI in education the priority for enterprises, training companies, EdTech startups, and educational institutions. Check out this ultimate knowledge hub to see real-life examples, types of AI-powered software and top AI tools for education, including custom-developed AI chatbots, as well as the benefits they bring to business and learners, and other insights.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 16 min read

AI in EdTech: Top 15 EdTech AI Startups that Won the Market

Discover the top AI EdTech startups that attract millions of users and secure significant funding. You'll understand the key trends of AI in EdTech, the steps required to apply AI in your project, and the innovative ideas that top performers have already employed.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 11 min read

Cloud vs Self-Hosted LMS

Choosing the deployment mode (cloud or self-hosted/on-premise) can affect the security of your data, the costs of the implementation, and even the availability of the system. This concerns both new companies that are just starting to build their training program and established enterprises that are moving away from classroom-based learning processes.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 10 min read

Best Learning Experience Platforms (LXPs) in 2023

We've taken top Learning Experience Platforms based on customer reviews, determined and compared their core features, and listed them all, starting from the most expensive one.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 31 min read

Gamification in eLearning

This article will explain what Gamification actually is, describe its advantages and potential risks based on scientific studies, tell you about its underlying psychological principles, and show several examples of its successful use in client- and employee-facing environments. In addition, the article includes a few pieces of advice on how to approach your own gamification strategy.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 9 min read

AI in Talent Management and in Learning and Development

In this post, you will find solutions to the critical business issues that most CEOs and business owners face now: losing key employees, filling skill gaps, finding the right talent, ensuring future-proof skills, upskilling and reskilling. See how Artificial Intelligence resolves it all if implemented timely in your eLearning process.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 3 min read

Learning Experience Platform vs LMS

LXP (Learning Experience Platform) is often AI-driven SaaS-based web or mobile learning management system with a monthly subscription if you purchase a ready-to-use elearning solution. The primary goal of an LXP platform is continuous learning for creating internal mobility, addressing talent gaps, and growing highly performing professionals. If your company uses LMS for corporate education, shall you switch to LXP or just add advanced features to your LMS? Or if it’s your first time to choose an eLearning platform, what to choose to make the best investment decision?

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

AI Chatbots for Education: Corporate Training, Higher Education and K-12

According to the research, education is one of the top 5 industries profiting from using chatbots. Using AI chatbots for education will increasingly become a key to enhancing students’ learning experience and educators’ productivity. A good example is the story of Emilien Nizon, a business school professor, who used the bot for 1,200+ students, 91% of which reported on improvements in their educational experience thanks to interacting with the chatbot. Considering such benefits of chatbots in education as low dependencies on infrastructure, time saving, and enhanced productivity, educators are likely to widely apply them in the near future as a part of a broader strategy to use of AI in eLearning. Belitsoft is a chatbot development company with an extensive portfolio in e-learing, including creating сustom training chatboats with coaching/mentoring functionality.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Adaptive Learning AI Technology in Education

AI-Powered Adaptive Learning

It's expected that AI in the educational market will grow at a CAGR of over 40% by 2027. This opens space for worthwhile investments and disruptive business ideas. Keep on reading to learn what challenges businesses solve with AI adaptive learning and how they can apply it to teach better and to earn more.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 10 min read

How to Create a Language Learning App [The Ultimate Guide!]

Our dedicated development team with eLearning expertise gives you the ultimate guide on how to make an app like Duolingo or even better AI-based language learning app. You’ll learn how to effectively monetize it. What feature set to choose. How much it costs. And how long the language learning app development takes.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 20 min read

AI in Language Learning

Investing early in AI for language learning is a way to earn millions of users and revenue as Duolingo does. Or gain investors and cooperate with world-known companies (Amazon, Google, Uber) as Busuu does. But how do top market players use AI to solve online language learning challenges? What AI tools and algorithms have they applied? In this article, we’ll explain it all in detail.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 11 min read

LMS Tips for Startups

The startup culture drives people to release their product ASAP: no matter what you are working on, there’s probably 2-3 other teams doing something similar. Having a well-structured training program and a complementary LMS is an advantage in this regard. This article explains how to gain this advantage and use it best.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

Personalized Learning Using AI

An AI-based training platform optimizes knowledge acquisition, cuts training costs (boosts your ROI), and makes it a point of competitive differentiation for your business. Let's see where to start to apply AI personalized learning in your business.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

What platform to choose for your eLearning course

In this article, we will explain what a learning platform is, which popular options are out there, and which alternatives exist for placing your eLearning course.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Integrate Your CRM with LMS to Increase Sales [Start now!]

In this article, you’ll discover how LMS CRM integration can increase your revenue, minimize customer churn, and lower support ticket load. You’ll understand how to use CRM analytics to enhance your customers’ experience. And how to use LMS content to educate your customers, show them the value of your product, teach them how to use it with maximum efficiency, and make your messages helpful and relevant.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

Social Learning Platforms: Studying Online Together

While the pandemic forces people to limit live communication and study at home, this doesn’t mean that

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

e-Learning for Companies and elearning Companies

Upskilling and reskilling is critical to business success. Modern custom-built corporate eLearning platform could integrate everything your employees need to acquire in-demand skills — learning resources, feedback, skills-matching, guidance, and even projects, gigs, and jobs. From the technical perspective, such platform can be named as a talent marketplace solution, an LXP add-on, which use recommended and adaptive learning, recommended assignments and recommended projects for every employee. Sometimes, it's also called skills management software.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 12 min read

AI LMS: 5 tools you can deploy now

Should you already invest in AI-powered LMS or not yet because it is still hard to recognize tangible benefits behind it? If yes, does it make sense to integrate AI into your existing LMS or you need to build such LMS from scratch. Keep on reading to find all the answers and discover how exactly AI tools in your LMS can streamline the processes of onboarding, upskilling & reskilling, boost internal mobility, reduce training costs, and ensure the acquisition of future-proof skills by the employees.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

LMS for Training Companies

The best LMS for training companies is the one that is easy to use by your clients and your employees. Right? Of course, it also should be integrated with the bank so that transactions are smooth. And secure so that nobody could hack into it. But there are a myriad of solutions! How to choose the top LMS for training providers among them? We help our clients, including great training companies, to select and deploy the right LMS for them. For example, check out this case, when we helped a training company to earn $1 million in monthly revenue thanks to implementing a custom LMS.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 16 min read

LMS Implementation Services

An LMS can be an invaluable tool when used effectively. To help you maximize its potential, we've prepared this article outlining how to set clear goals, choose an implementation strategy, assemble a team, plan effectively, migrate data, develop courses, and test the new LMS to ensure everything operates as expected.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

Elearning App Design Mistakes

When figuring out how to make a learning app, it's crucial to avoid common UX/UI design mistakes that can hinder the app's success. What mistakes make it near-impossible for users to love a certain app? How difficult is it to build a UX mistake-free app? What are the most popular mistakes designers commit? We at Belitsoft work on projects in many domains, including e-commerce, accounting, healthcare, entertainment, and more. But eLearning has always been of special importance to us. We’ve interviewed one of our UX designers who specializes on eLearning apps and courses to list the most common graphic design mistakes that can ruin the first impression.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

Converting ILT to VILT: Prepare, Plan, Implement

Converting ILT to eLearning: Prepare, Plan, Implement

The recent trends show that the most effective companies are using eLearning to stay on top

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

Video Conferencing Platform VS LMS for Elearning

Virtual instructor-led training (VILT) can be done through a learning management system with much better effectiveness than just via simple video conferencing software. Read on for details.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Choosing an LMS: How to Make the Right Decision

When a company decides to start a learning program or digitize an existing one a question of choosing the right LMS inevitably arises. There are thousands of commercially available systems as well as companies that can make custom ones from scratch. So we will make the selection process a bit easier by giving you some pointers about the evaluation criteria, LMS categories and the most popular options available.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 13 min read

How to Build an Online Learning Platform

Step-by-step guide on how to build a learning platform that favors faster knowledge acquisition, engages learners, scales in line with your growing needs, and allows saving on training.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 15 min read

How to Build a Customer Training LMS that Will Skyrocket Your Profit by Over 25%

Build a Customer Training LMS to Skyrocket Profit by over 25%

Your company has an excellent product on the market. But you see some areas where your customers are struggling. The progressive way to reduce the number of support queries is customer training packed in a user-friendly LMS. Keep on reading to get practical advice for creating a perfect customer training LMS for your business that educates, onboards and supports your clients. And learn how this eLearning program can increase your customer retention and satisfaction, reduce customer churn and support costs.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 11 min read

eLearning Developers and Instructional Designers

In a small company, the duties of an instructional designer and an eLearning developer could be combined in one person. However, larger corporations prefer separating the two. Instructional designers handle the learning experience (curriculum, teaching methods, practical exercises) and the theoretical foundation. eLearning developer implements the design and ensures it works exactly as intended.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 13 min read

e-Learning Platforms for Selling Courses Online

If you want to make money from selling an online course, start with choosing a platform. It determines the structure of your learning material, the instruments available to you, and the competition you will face. In this article, we will explain how to use premade and custom platforms for selling courses, as well as give advice on the business aspects, e.g. marketing and sales.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 17 min read

Gamification in Corporate Training

Gamification is one of the main trends in corporate eLearning. In this article, our elearning software development company will clarify what it actually is, show its advantages over traditional learning methods, present examples of successfully gamifying corporate training and give evidence-based advice on launching your own gamification program.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

LMS for Healthcare

As healthcare intricacy increases, the need for robust training and development becomes undeniable. Customized Learning Management Systems (LMSs) have emerged as essential tools for medical professionals to stay abreast of the latest advancements and regulatory nuances. While there are many ready-made options, a tailored LMS often resonates more closely with an organization's unique requirements. At Belitsoft, we craft modern, adaptable LMS frameworks for healthcare organizations focused on enhancing patient care through strategic training. For those in the training industry, our solutions offer an avenue to develop a standout product tailored to the healthcare sector. This article delves into the significance, benefits, challenges, and transformative potential of a custom healthcare LMS.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

SRS for eLearning Management System

"Why would I even need a software requirement specification for elearning system?" is a frequently asked question among the people who hire a custom elearning software company for the first t

• 8 min read

Authoring Tools

In this article, we will describe what authoring tools are, give pointers on how to select the best one for your organization and give a rundown on a few most popular ones.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Custom Enterprise Learning Solutions

Learn 3 core business scenarios helping L&D leaders get the most out of investments in training programs. Most effective custom solutions for enterprise learning and competency challenges.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

How to Build your Own LMS from Scratch

We’ve been creating custom LMSes from scratch for 15+ years. As well as implement and customize ready-to-use eLearning solutions. In this article, we’ll share with you how we build learning management systems.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 22 min read

SharePoint Learning Management System for Business

Learn how Sharepoint LMS by Belitsoft optimizes eLearning processes in organizations. Key features, use cases, pros and cons of using Sharepoint as an LMS.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 12 min read

Elearning Trends 2023 To Start Implementing Today in Corporate Training

Cost-effectiveness, availability, increased flexibility, and better training consistency are a few of the key benefits that eLearning offers L&D through a focus on people, personalization and automation of processes, technology, and big data. Read a complete guide to major eLearning trends 2023 that will define the eLearning industry in the next 5 years.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 15 min read

How to Create an eLearning App?

How to develop a learning app and monetize it? How much does it cost to develop an e-learning app? And what features must your app have to thrive in the market crowded with solutions? In this post, you will find answers to all these questions and see some successful real-life examples, let's start.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 19 min read

AI in Higher Education

The eLearning products driven by AI shift higher education from ineffective “one-size-fits-all” pattern to highly personalized and adaptive learning, improving students' experience and attractiveness of the university or college. This post will give you an insight on how to reduce a summer melt, increase enrollment and graduation rates, and make your campus smart and safe. Keep on reading to find out how AI resolves challenges in higher education.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

Artificial intelligence in K-12 education

Implementing AI in K-12 resolves multiple challenges that students, their parents, school leaders, and school districts face. High attrition rates among teachers, low engagement of students, proper learning and knowledge checking during remote classes and, especially, school security. Read the post to discover how all these challenges can be successfully resolved with AI-driven tools.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Compliance Training Management Software

Not fulfilling the legal requirements can bring consequences ranging from fines and lost money to personal injury and even death. This is why businesses in all kinds of industries from Healthcare to Financial should take compliance training seriously. eLearning is the most advanced form of delivering such training, so in this article, we will take a look at the software that fits it the best.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 4 min read

Flash to Html5 Elearning Conversion

Adobe, the company responsible for Flash, stopped supporting it. So if you want your Flash content to be usable in the years to come, you would do better to convert it to HTML5. This article will explain how exactly you can do it.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

eLearning Development Software

Although the goal is to teach people something, there are millions of applications that have their own approach to the matter. This is why we have prepared an article that will give you a better understanding of the kinds of eLearning software on the market. Speaking about the eLearning domain, we can distinguish 4 major categories of software: сontent-making, teaching, administrative and analytical. Let’s go over each category in turn.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

Starting an Online Course Business

If you have valuable knowledge that people are willing to pay for, the time has never been better for launching an online course. With the advancements in technology, people are becoming more accepting of online training. For many of them sharing their knowledge online is a serious business. However, starting one can be tough - that’s why in this article we will describe the market conditions, explain what to do on the business side of things, and show some success stories.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 18 min read

How to Start an Online School Business: 5 Steps!

You know things that other people will pay for. You decide to teach via the Internet. Read this article for a step-by-step guide to launching your own online teaching business. And should you have any other questions, feel free to drop us a line - we’ll be glad to help.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

Gamification vs. Game-Based Learning

Gamification and Game-based learning have been trending for the last decade or so. However, these terms are still used interchangeably from time to time or get otherwise confused. We have prepared an article addressing this issue and showing examples of both approaches.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 4 min read

E-Learning Solution for Singapore Math

Singapore is a country that is small in size but very successful in education. It has been consistently ranking as one of the best-achieving nations for over a decade. In mathematics, this is largely due to the well-thought-out approach the city-state takes to teach the kids in the most efficient manner. This article will describe some of the most popular mobile apps using this approach and explain what is needed for you to create your own. GET A FREE QUOTE

Dmitry Baraishuk • 4 min read

10 eLearning Games Ideas

An idea is only as good as its implementation. So in this article, we will list several eLearning games that not only had great ideas behind them but were done well and turned out to be profitable.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

How to Launch a Game-Based Learning Startup

The most profitable country for serious games is China, followed by the USA and India. However, by 2022, the United States is expected to regain its number one rank on the top learning games market charts.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

How to Сreate Game-Based Learning

What do you need more as a learning manager? Creating functional content and delivering it on a basic learning platform? Or engaging your learners with their training and increasing their learning performance? If you would like to create game-based learning, let me show you the whole picture. I'm going to tell you not just game-based learning strategy, and share with you examples of companies who have already implemented serious games in their blended learning training courses. I will also try to argue that computer video games really help to boost your training to a new level and give results which you are struggling to reach using traditional approaches.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

eLearning Automation: Core Features and Examples

Running an eLearning program can require significant time and effort. And even if the payoff is worth it, there is nothing wrong with automating the boring stuff. In this article we will explain how to make software do routine things for you so you can focus on more creative tasks.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

How to Create a Great eLearning Template in 5 Steps

Creating an eLearning course is a serious undertaking that takes time and money. So to save both it is wise to use templates that you can modify to fit your needs. In this article we will explain what eLearning templates are, give advice on how to use them efficiently, and describe how to create one.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

How to Succeed at eLearning Implementation

Implementing a new eLearning program is a serious undertaking that can either improve your company’s fortunes or result in wasted money and disappointed people. This article will give you guidelines on successfully planning and implementing eLearning, as well as notify you about some of the possible challenges.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

How to launch an edtech startup

In this article, we will take a look at some good reasons to launch an EdTech startup, suggest several uncommon, but useful best practices for that, and provide a number of examples of successful learning startups.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 9 min read

How to Develop a MOOC Platform

You are able to enter the stiff competitive world of MOOC platforms and potentially compete with Coursera, Udacity and other major platforms. We will describe the basic and advanced features of modern MOOC platforms, figure out the best current representatives on the market and compare them as well. We will also try to figure out what would it take to build such a platform as a custom software solution that can be outsourced to a elearning software company, like Belitsoft International LLC

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

6 Case Studies of Successful xAPI Implementation

xAPI, Experience API, Tin Can API - whatever you might call it - is the latest and one of the most wide-spread data transport standard. We’ve decided to find some real case studies to show the exact impact the company can get from adopting this standard and the results of our research exceeded all expectations. Millions of euros of saved revenue, tons of production hours at huge corporations, hundreds of saved lives due to adjustments in medicine and military personnel training process – these are just a few benefits various companies managed to achieve by adopting xAPI.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 9 min read

Top Online Education SaaS Companies from New York

Looking for good startup business ideas and inspiration? Take a look at the list of NY online learning companies we have compiled for you.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 9 min read

List of 20+ Successful Edtech SaaS Companies located in San Francisco

Are you looking for education startups that were founded in the U.S.A and want to learn more about their business models? As a company that develops edtech SaaS startups for the US-based customers, Belitsoft has prepared a list of well-funded subscription businesses located in San Francisco.

Dzmitry Garbar • 8 min read

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