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This has allowed us to automate the creation of e-learning content, in an engaging and immersive experience, reducing our time to market for content creation and updates, as well as financial saving with respect to use of recording studios and the associated resources.

This supporting future capabilities around sales enablement and other use cases better suited to delivery in a VR form factor. Intelligent Assist is an AI feature that allows admins to manage day-to-day tasks more efficiently. Using natural language, ask a simple or complex request and be taken directly to the pre-configured report page or action screen with one click.

For example, type “Show me all the users that did not pass Security Compliance training” and Intelligent Assist will take you to the report with a pre-populated list of those specific users. This game-changing capability makes LMS administration faster and easier for power users and novices alike. This initiative is targeted at healthcare providers HCPs who support with pediatric patients and is designed to highlight the importance of a holistic treatment approach, which includes elements like mental health care and communication with parents of patients.

This blended approach to storytelling combines watercolor images and voice acting, medical information created with the help of industry experts, and augmented reality content to give a comprehensive and emotional look into the life of pediatric IBD patients.

This entry, submitted by BG Products, Inc. Discover the challenges in downsized, boosted engines and the resulting drivability issues. Then, see how BG preventive maintenance effectively addresses each of these challenges.

CenarioVR by eLearning Brothers is proving that the myth about VR being too expensive and too complicated is no longer true. Multiple clients across different industries are using this unique, affordable, user-friendly tool to achieve extraordinary outcomes. The results they achieved would be highly unlikely with traditional eLearning. As a pioneer product that has made VR course authoring both easy and affordable since , CenarioVR continues to help companies succeed and evolve.

The Detective Boulevard 4. It is the fourth generation of a virtual reality training system embracing immersive and interactive characteristics to deliver seamless 3D crime scenes for police detective training. Since its establishment in , limitations are observed that the training instructors cannot amend or change the setting or details of the preset crime scenes to meet specific training objectives.

By modifying the software platform, developing specific scenes and creating a database of virtual objects for DB 4. Development of this innovative solution was driven by reducing the reliance on 3D model creators and increasing the flexibility to create customized crime scenes to enhance trainees’ capability during detective training. The web-frontend allows administrators to manage content, devices and users. Following extensive research and planning, and after many months of design and development, in October , Avanade officially released its Smart Building Accelerator into the market.

This unique technology solution combines VR with IoT to create a workplace of the future, reducing meeting room and desk costs simultaneously increasing productivity with a seamless workplace, employee and buildings facility management experience.

The use of technology in training has turned possibilities into realities. One way is by providing an alternative immersive virtual environment, together with real-time motion capture.

With this, trainees wearing VR goggles can answer questions about what they would do and why, after studying scenarios related to front-line police duties. Such innovations have made it possible to go beyond the physical boundaries of conventional classrooms, while also enhancing interactions between trainers and recruits. The VR Kit is the first of its kind for the industry, providing HP technicians with an exclusive opportunity for experiential learning and giving the company a competitive edge in customer service.

The technology has changed the way HP Inc. Interactive VR experience for use in Distribution Center new associate onboarding, to provide an overview of lifecycle journey of medication from manufacturer to patient, and help new associates understand their role in the organization and in relation to the patients we serve.

Through Mursion, the client created scenarios for its Coach Approach leadership development program that reinforced key skills such as building rapport and trust, listening authentically, asking powerful questions, reframing situations, shifting perspective, and holding team members accountable in a supportive way. The client utilized contextualized content including scenarios that addressed its culture of constant change, a common challenge for the rapidly evolving technology sector.

The program was originally aimed at managerial staff but was found impactful to a broader learning pool that includes titles like program and project managers. With over 1.

With Strivr, enterprises gain unique learning and assessment data to measure training effectiveness, evaluate role potential, and predict learning outcomes at scale. From hiring to training and upskilling, Strivr is proud to partner with elite sports teams and Fortune companies including Bank of America, FedEx, MGM, Sprouts, Verizon, and Walmart to elevate performance through immersive experience.

When Learning teams and subject-matter experts collaborate on courses, learning programs are relevant, engaging, and delivered at the speed of business. In the new post-pandemic world, traditional training formats need a breakthrough. Now Inkling has expanded our content authoring capabilities by adding a new fully functional forms builder, called Inkforms that has all of the same intuitive, collaborative, drag and drop ease of use that habitat does.

While Informs is a separate module it works seamlessly with Habitat so you can build any type of form, checklist, survey or quiz and drag and drop it into an Inkdoc training course or a learning pathway step.

Informs also give our customers the flexibility to create stand alone forms and embed Inkling training and knowledge content into the form which opens up a whole new world of opportunities for Inkling to serve the operational learning needs of our customers. These microsimulations can be utilized to assess and develop effective decision-making, identify skill gaps within organizations, and assist in the recruiting and hiring process.

Client examples explore how large organizations have used Elucidat to deliver a transformational impact on personal development and business performance.

PRODUCER is a learning design, authoring, collaboration and analytics tool that supports the full content production lifecycle, and enables organizations to create affordable, engaging learning. Content authors can create original content or update or reuse legacy content to produce new, engaging educational products quickly and at scale using platform features such as commenting, version control, content reuse, audience tagging and more.

Harnessing the power of an XML structured authoring platform — Uncovering the potential of content components to fuel authoring creativity at scale. To maximize content reuse and increase learner engagement and retention, the Rogers team elevated their content strategy by developing an innovative and highly effective method to expand interactivities at scale. By componentizing their content and adopting a reuse strategy, they have realized a Absorb Create LI—which stands for LMS integrated—is an online course builder and authoring tool with all the power and functionality of legacy desktop solutions—but none of the limitations.

An Articulate subscription gives course authors everything they need to create e-learning, including continuously updated apps and resources that streamline the entire course creation workflow. This entry, submitted by iSpring Solutions, Inc.

It is a comprehensive authoring tool used to create rich engaging interactive ebooks or courses. It is used by authors and educators working in education, training, and publishing.

Kotobee Author was created with a specific goal in mind and that is to make digital publishing for interactive ebooks easy and available for everyone. This product complies with universal standards in Education Technology, and aims to solve the following market problems: 1 The difficulty that educators and academic institutes face in order to create rich high-quality interactive ebooks independently without reverting to software development agencies.

LMS, school’s website, mobile apps, desktop apps consistently without tolerating the security of the content. This entry, submitted by Float and KFC Global is an enterprise learning experience platform solution that brings together ahead of time learning, standard operating procedures and performance support content in one responsive web application.

Named “The Vault”, it is available globally to over , learners and is depended on daily by thousands of unique employees in their work activities. The multi-lingual system is available in over 40 languages and contains more than 25, discrete pieces of learning and performance materials all managed in the platform itself along with integrated support for LMS content. The system is developed and maintained by Float in a tight partnership with KFC Global and brings emerging technology like Augmented Reality content, xAPI, and personalized content recommendations to this global leader.

Now in its fourth year of existence, the system’s integration with KFC IT services and Learning Technology partners makes it indispensable to the enterprise. TiER1 Performance and Fresenius Kidney Care partnered to re-invent the overwhelming and technical process of training patients to do peritoneal dialysis at home. In June , Skillsoft announced the combination with and acquisition of Global Knowledge, a worldwide leader in IT and professional skills development.

The combined company, operating as Skillsoft Corp. Key innovations differentiating Skillsoft span its completeness of content portfolio, delivery capabilities, and global reach. Skillsoft provides organizations the flexibility to deliver blended, experiential learning for a wide variety of strategic initiatives, from project-based learning for small teams, to mission-critical and time-sensitive technology initiatives, to continuous learning programs aligned to business goals and designed for enterprise-wide impact.

This entry, submitted by Kepner-Tregoe, Inc. These critical thinking methodologies are used to set priorities and solve problems. Learners engage through a series of reinforcing learning cycles with regular engagement with a coach, and capstone their learning with a live, virtual coaching session.

This approach minimizes disruption to other work activities and maximizes learning; all with the intent of reducing time to use and increasing accuracy.

The updated program also includes training for service managers and parts managers. The program is delivered by a team consisting of IMD faculty, industry practitioners and is structured in a way that allows the participants to also learn from each other. The new world of work requires a new way of building skills to adapt to frequent change. Organizations are now tasked with rebuilding what their world of work looks like and finding new opportunities to reconnect their people, technology and business goals.

Cornerstone Xplor does just that. More than a traditional Learning Experience Platform LXP , Cornerstone Xplor put skills front-and-center by deeply and thoroughly understanding the skills people have, connecting them to modern, high-quality learning content and providing them with personalized career pathways to help them feel empowered to grow and navigate their own careers.

It details how Royal Credit Union has implemented and been actively using LemonadeLXP, a learning experience and digital adoption platform designed for financial institutions, to train their frontline staff. The emerging learning technology was deployed digitally for risk mitigation skills at biotech operations and soft skills global support services. The projects show how the advancement in emerging simulation technology allowed rapid deployment, precise measurement of upskilling and clear business impact.

The projects showcase the impact and the potential widespread application of this unique learning technology at an enterprise such as Merck.

The entry submitted by Udacity is called,”The Enterprise Nanodegree. The program for Enterprise clients has high quality and in-depth instructor videos as well as hands-on course content. This innovation allows the users to access up to date information while also using technology as their main resource for learning. Because of the real-world projects designed by industry experts, professionals can gain real world experience that is also applicable for their day jobs.

This entry, from Class Technologies, highlights the innovative benefits that this technology brings to the virtual classroom. Class is a synchronous online learning platform that adds teaching and learning tools to Zoom. With the emergence of remote training and development, Class provides a virtual classroom for employers to utilize in dynamic ways to enhance and implement online onboarding, training, and development opportunities.

The end result is a worldwide solution to change the way the world learns at all levels of business and education. This entry, submitted by Haufe Akademie, is called “Haufe Learning Experience” — a learning experience platform. The Haufe Learning Experience puts employees at the center of professional development.

It motivates, promotes and enables self-directed learning. At the same time, it offers strategic insights and functions for HR and business to quickly and purposefully expand and find knowledge and expertise. The digital learning platform brings together learning offerings from various internal and external sources in one place within the company. It compiles learning offers – adapted to the learning preferences of each individual – on a personalized start page and makes all learning offers easy to find via a central search and filter function as well as individual recommendations.

The Haufe Learning Experience supports human resources development in providing employees with sustainable and forward-looking skills in line with the company’s strategic challenges. This includes the intake and management of training requests, team capacity planning, project planning and management, collaboration with SMEs and other stakeholders, content creation, and integrations with other learning tools and technology to manage learning operations within one shared platform.

Finance Challenge is a competitive, high-fidelity simulation that provides a safe environment to experiment with business levers and see the impact of executive-level decisions in real-time. It offers participants practice using financial data to make decisions that drive business value.

This entry is submitted by Danish-based company Actee. The application is for the game platform we have developed and the ability for clients to build their games based on pre-existing entries.

We believe that organizational learning is best achieved by integrating practical experience and theoretical discussions with the introduction of new toolsets. This is why our games are tailor-made to help players identify and discuss frequent challenges when organizations face change processes, leadership change, and problems with communication.

Our goal is to change the world through workplace learning and we truly believe that it is an achievable goal. Organizational learning should never be about presenting employees with a plan and an agenda. Instead, we believe that organizational change must happen through involving employees and help them own the process.

Gamification is a great tool for such a process and we are constantly working to make our games relevant and interesting. This entry, submitted by Edocate Ltd. This platform provides a real-life yet risk-free virtual world for training on long-term patient management.

Unlike other VPS platforms in the market, the Edocate platform offers an unbounded simulation experience that is automatically driven by smart algorithms and evidence-based engines to simulate disease progression, the effect of medication, and the onset of side effects.

Thanks to its unique technology, patient cases are easily designed and tailored to address the educational needs and practice scope of diverse Healthcare Professional HCP audiences across multiple conditions. The platform collects objective data on provider’s clinical competence and performance, which helps discover and address knowledge and practice gaps.

Learners take on the role of a Store Operator for the Baycoast Food Castle location where they are responsible for reviewing the store’s performance, planning, and executing on key strategic goals through a series of simulated business decisions.

The decisions include annual planning, monthly planning, and weekly execution of that plan through activities such as ordering, labor scheduling, and more.

The objective of the simulation is to maximize profit dollars and grow sales in the short- and long-term. This simulation tests representatives on their knowledge of the products and procedures, which includes a review of facial anatomy, marking injection site locations, properly preparing the product, and correct injection technique.

SimGate is the first of its kind solution built to run in harmony with an existing learning ecosystem to provide simulation-based learning at scale. The experiential simulations created and delivered by SimGate can be used as both assessments and learning engagements focused on solving real-world problems.

One of the standout features of the technology is the browser interface rapid authoring tool, which allows for rapid design, development, and deployment of simulations.

The simulations can be deployed around the world, in different instances for different audiences. They can also be designed for small workshops, large events, solo learners, teams, cohorts, and even in a massive-multiplayer environment.

Entirely browser-based, GTC can simulate trading in any market, under any economic scenario, using a wide range of financial instruments including equities, bonds, currencies, commodities, crypto-assets, and derivatives including futures, options and swaps. In addition to faithfully simulating the trading environment, GTC includes a number of powerful analysis tools that provide users with an incisive insight into the workings of financial markets and products.

Cybersecurity is a state of the art, gamified, web-based training experience designed to fully prepare Rogers employees to effectively protect themselves, and the company, from increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats. The course has risen the levels of timely reporting on malicious activity and enhanced the safety of the company, its assets, and information.

This simulation was a part of a full Learning Program used to meet the businesses need of the Dell Wyse Support team. This simulation was one of the final learning tools for the learner to complete towards the end of their course.

It directly relates to their job activities, as completing this simulation reinforces their newly learned knowledge as well as guides them if they get lost. The new simulation technology was deployed digitally for risk mitigation skills at biotech operations and soft skills global support services. The projects featured rapid deployment, precise measurement of upskilling and clear business impact. The projects showcase the impact and the potential widespread application of advanced simulation technology at an enterprise such as Merck.

The simulation is an asynchronous digital learning tool that interactively builds and strengthen the language of business and foundational business acumen skills. The experiential learning scenario unfolds realistically, turn by turn, with immediate coaching and feedback that enables participants to see the impact of their decisions through meaningful metrics.

The DSA also enables a differentiated experience for learners, based on their decisions, actions, and performance in the simulation. The Live Training Module in CourseStage LMS allows our clients to seamlessly set up stand-alone or recurring live, location-based events complemented with tracked online learning content.

Credits earned during live training are maintained alongside on-demand and virtual learning content within the LMS. Utilizing the live training module in the LMS allows in-person training to be incorporated into a learning path. We use our is corporate operations and demand management platform BOA Business operating application to manage learning and development processes and support the digitalization goals of the Kuveyt Turk. With Omnichannel Education, life sciences companies are able to consolidate all go-to-market education activities with one platform that leverages the single source of the clinical evidence story the single source of truth.

Songbird Learning Analytics suite provides advanced roles and hierarchy based access and deploys to thousands of stakeholders. It addresses the challenges organizations typically face in building and maintaining such reporting capabilities: 1 costs are dramatically lower, 2 dashboards can be adjusted for client-specific customizations, 3 reports can be pushed, so stakeholders receive insights — with little effort, and 4 AI is used to help scale volumes of data, freeing stakeholders from labor-intensive reviews.

Now that the hybrid workplace is here to stay, how do you keep remote employees engaged and motivated? How can you effectively and virtually provide constructive feedback and effective coaching strategies? How can managers keep them focused on the work that matters most for the organization? Betterworks performance management tools effectively address the above issues, providing analytics on employees as well as team performance regardless of location or work arrangement.

These tools have proven highly effective in enhancing collaboration, keeping employees engaged and achieving individual, team and organizational goals. Building the right learning reporting tool at scale is difficult, especially with a variety of learners and desired outcomes in mind. Typical eLearning reporting focuses on quantitative data, not qualitative. Yet, qualitative data and feedback can help business improve the quality of their formal training programs and validate their investment in learning, at scale.

Together with Docebo Learn LMS, Shape, Content, and Learning Impact, Docebo Learning Analytics empowers organizations to close the learning loop by proving their learning and enablement programs are truly powering productivity and business performance. Docebo Learning Analytics is a learning intelligence tool that provides enterprise customers a central environment to retrieve, analyze, and transform learning data – alongside data from other business systems – into actionable business insights.

Learning and enablement leaders need a way to showcase how learning fuels business outcomes, while forging learning and productivity enablement into the core of strategic decision-making.

IntelliBoard provides visualizations, dashboards, reports, scheduled notifications and conditional event notifications for the purpose of making eLearning better in every way possible. The Harbinger Competency-based Learning Framework CBLF is an innovative IP solution that maps competency levels to deliver customized, individual learning paths while closing skill gaps and tracking the progress of the learner.

The framework solves not only for the current but also the future competency requirements of both the organization and the individuals. Most companies struggle to move past limited metrics and measure behavior and business impact for learning initiatives. The enhanced reporting portal makes accessing data, analyzing data, and gathering insights simple, so the information becomes actionable and easy to implement for managers and coaches.

It allows organizations to federate an entire Learning ecosystem in a single application that is easy to administer and that delivers a great user experience for learners on both mobile and web. Brainier has been exclusively focused on building customer inspired LMS products for over 20 years, and this entry details the latest advancements in our learning management technology.

Thank you for the opportunity to submit this entry for your review. Given the rising costs of recruitment in an increasingly competitive skills market, CGI needed to tackle a potential skills shortage by upskilling employees more effectively, real-time. Epignosis’ mission is to democratize corporate training through the delivery of best-in-class digital learning solutions predicated on superior ease-of-use and disruptive pricing.

Through its suite of learning technology software TalentLMS, TalentCards, eFront , Epignosis caters to the learning needs of modern organizations, no matter their size or complexity. This entry is submitted by LearnUpon, is called “LearnUpon: One centralized solution for anywhere, anytime learning”.

LearnUpon enables global organizations to create, manage, deliver, and measure learning through a single, centralized solution—anywhere, anytime. With a focus on the user-experience and industry-leading expertise, businesses can deliver impactful training that fuels employee, partner, and customer success. Adobe Captivate Prime is a comprehensive learning platform allows your users to explore unlimited learning opportunities and get personalized learning experience powered by AI based recommendation engine which uses parameters such as profile data, skill group, peer set, and many more.

Allowing its users to deliver content that is unique for every learner. With Adobe Captivate Prime you can also embed learning in the flow of work by taking advantage of out-of-the-box integrations with popular martech platforms such as Adobe Experience Manager Sites and Marketo Engage.

This entry, submitted by BairesDev, is called “Fluent First. Students learn through interactive lessons and exercises that teach and test their grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Each class has supporting material students review before class.

Classes have a limit of up to 8 students from various companies across the world, allowing for great interaction between students and teachers. Cornerstone helps employees quickly onboard, upskill and pivot expertise to meet career and business growth. Cornerstone helps organizations create, manage and gain insights into the learner experience; while providing connected experiences to unique capabilities including Learner Home, Playlists, Content Anytime, Skills Graph and Cornerstone Xplor.

CrossKnowledge Learning Suite CKLS is a full solution skills acquisition platform for large scale companies to effectively upskill and reskill their workforce to successfully navigate the future. The platform, available in 31 languages, helps learners acquire the skills they need to succeed. We continue to invest heavily to provide our clients with best in class capabilities, so they can demonstrate business impact.

HP Inc. With drawing and annotation functionality to further enhance the real-time video experience, HP has elevated customer service standards for the industry and increased its customer satisfaction in the process. Kuveyt Turk Academy Learning Portal is a new generation learning management system that is developed by an expert team, facilitates digital transformation process and allows learning team to plan, track and report the learning and development processes of our employees, business partners or dealers.

Merck requires personnel, including sub-contracted, third-party personnel of their vendors and business partners that provide certain services to take Adverse Event AE and Product Quality Complaint Training. This training needs to occur prior to performing any services for the Company and annually thereafter.

An internal audit of the Learning Management System LMS identified a high risk of error and inefficiencies, so GP Strategies was brought in to overcome this by developing a new learning management solution and eLearning course. This entry, submitted by Northpass, provides some color about the Northpass platform. This all-new approach to learning management technology places a greater emphasis on flexibility, customizations and integrations. To see exactly what that means, please continue on.

These insights guide individuals to careers with a bright market outlook and strong skills fit via an AI-based roles and skills recommendation engine and bespoke guidance from expert career coaches and advisors. For RPS customers with complex learning operations, effective learning management becomes a critical function to connecting business goals and future performance. This entry, submitted by Rogers Communications Inc. This is an in-house built applicable to address the needs for our Organizational Learning Department.

Schoox: A unified performance and engagement-driven learning and talent development platform. This entry, submitted by Trivie, Inc. Trivie’s SaaS solution incorporates gamification, microlearning, peer-to-peer social learning, and personalized adaptive training to make learning more enjoyable and convenient.

The end result is an agile, easy-to-use training solution that doesn’t require learning leaders to change what they do things, and instead makes what they do better. It is a feature developed for end-to-end compliance management, complete with audit trail and documentation management. As the client, Lufthansa Technik Philippines provides aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul MRO services to flight operators worldwide, they have to maintain a highly trained and certified workforce with multiple different job roles and authorization requirement.

This innovative approach allows slide level tracking and through the utilization of additional technologies, the ability to confirm the learners self-selected content pathways was completed. This entry demonstrates the intricate data workflows created in a single educational module adaptable to more than 9, employees and hundreds of job roles. LearnUpon LMS reduces business risk by providing one centralized solution to achieve, maintain, and record compliance.

This entry, submitted by LearnUpon, is called “LearnUpon LMS reduces business risk by providing one centralized solution to achieve, maintain, and record compliance. It does this by replacing manual, ad hoc processes with the necessary workflows and securely housing training data in one place. The end result is a solution that safeguards against compliance violations and builds a workplace culture of compliance. Merck requires personnel, including sub-contracted, third-party personnel of their vendors and business partners providing certain services, to take Adverse Event AE and Product Quality Complaint Training—referred to as Know to Report or KtR Training.

Training must be completed prior to the performance of any services and annually thereafter. Path LMS delivers online courses and content anytime, anywhere. Built specifically for online educators and meetings and events, Path is a powerful, award-winning learning management platform that helps organizations manage programs on their terms. Docebo Learning Analytics is a learning intelligence tool that helps businesses transform data from external training programs customer education, partner training, for-profit learning into actionable insights that support key business objectives, showcase the success of these programs, and secure the confidence and investment to drive continued growth.

With a central environment to retrieve, analyze, and transform learning data into actionable business insights, Docebo Learning Analytics helps leaders in revenue- and customer-focused learning programs forge revenue-generating learning into the core of strategic decision-making.

HN Grow is a mobile-first learning application for Herbalife Nutrition independent distributors developed by Intuition. The first phase of this app was intended to streamline the orientation process for new distributors to increase competence and confidence in retailing the products and delivering results for their customers. The second phase of the app builds on gamifying the experience by unlocking access to advanced trainings upon completion of the basic training, as well as enforcing compliance training where required by local regulatory agencies.

This global app is currently available in 39 countries, with an additional 8 countries confirmed to launch in Q1 , and is free for all external distributors. Latitude provides not just functionality for external training but also an entire platform to manage learning in the context of external organizational structures, reporting relationships, brands, catalogs, and custom reporting for both external organizational management and corporate management such as regional managers for dealerships or franchises.

This entry is submitted by LearningCart and is a fully featured eLearning business in a box. LearningCart provides everything an organization needs to transform their training, or educational offerings, into a robust revenue stream.

From the single unified platform, customers can access an integrated website builder, ecommerce shopping cart, blog engine, learning management system LMS , as well as a variety of integrations with popular 3rd party platforms.

LearnUpon LMS partners with its customers to grow sustained revenue and scale resources, through engaging customer and partner training. This entry, submitted by LearnUpon, is called “LearnUpon LMS partners with its customers to grow sustained revenue and scale resources, through engaging customer and partner training”. And finally, it describes how this training enables businesses to improve customer retention and expand existing business, and to educate partners in order to bring in new business.

This entry, submitted by Northpass, is intended to highlight how the Northpass platform is purpose-built for an external use case. The improvements to Thought Industries data architecture and insights development solutions listed here give customers an entirely new way to iterate and improve their learning content without having to send data to external teams. This provides training programs with autonomy and the ability to deliver on more complex and nuanced business objectives.

Thought Industries customers ask sophisticated questions and our Insight Engine was upgraded to enable them to never be left asking for more. Together these new capabilities are called the Reporting Hub. Connect, not only makes it easier and cheaper to create integrations to any learning or enterprise system, it also enables Inkling to work with our partners like Educe and CGS to extend functionality of our platform to meet critical customer needs.

For example, Inkling partnered with Educe to create a Distributed User Administration MicroApp that solves problems for our customers trying to deliver Inkling learning across an extended enterprise of partners and franchisees.

Often HQ learning staff using Inkling do not know the employees and users at their partners or franchisees because they are completely different companies. Intellum provides the customer education platform that large brands and fast-moving companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Stripe, Pinterest, Zoom, Verizon, and Mailchimp rely on to improve product utilization, customer retention and revenue. Intellum’s scientific, data-driven approach is based on 20 years of industry experience and our team of award-winning learning practitioners, content experts, engagement professionals, and developers help our clients create, deploy, manage, track, and continuously improve highly-personalized, engaging education experiences.

Their goal of improving patient outcomes led them to develop the Alcon Experience Academy. The platform enables Alcon to engage their HCPs with targeted content, world class training, resources and live streaming events. To date the platform has been rolled out to over 65, learners from countries, ranging from surgeons to optometry students and residents.

This entry, submitted by EdApp, illustrates the power of what small to medium-sized teams can achieve through training programs – at zero cost. From NGOs in Africa and non-profits in Haiti to independent pubs in rural England and food delivery services in Malaysia, over 15, teams around the globe have been a part of the revolution. The Rockstar Learning Platform is uniquely designed to support the changing content consumption habits of modern learners.

It offers the base features of an LMS yet has uniquely modern experiential features that help clients evolve and scale. Small- and medium-sized businesses need the same capabilities and insights from learning systems, but with limited resources and competing priorities they often manage with less than they need to stay competitive or fail to implement any learning platform at all.

SkyPrep is an appropriate fit for this category as the solution was designed based on the training needs of small and medium-sized businesses.

The powerful and intuitive LMS enables organizations to easily deliver, manage, and track the training they provide to employees, customers, and partners. These are the key components that have helped SkyPrep’s small and mid-size customers reach success and made the training solution stand out from the competition.

When we noticed this shift in usage, our developpers completely recoded and redesigned our existing My Learning Mobile App to accommodate a device agnostic user experience, where learners can easily switch between devices, continue learning on mobile, and still enjoy a seamless and engaging user experience. Have a look at our harmonized design and exciting new features! The post-pandemic workforce is all about digitizing and humanizing how we engage employees through shared learning experiences that unleashes productivity, cross-collaboration, and mentorship in impactful, and safe ways.

It proved to be the perfect fit for this audience. Each territory has seen an incredible ROI, unparalleled completion rates and the creation of a thriving social community – despite a pandemic. The second phase of the app builds on gamifying the experience by unlocking access to advanced trainings upon completion of the basic training.

This global app is currently available in 39 countries, with an additional 8 countries confirmed to launch by Q1 While product training can be challenging using a traditional eLearning approaches, mobile technology made it possible to deliver training to Sales Consultants across the country allowing them to get ‘hands-on’ with the vehicle.

Experiential learning like this allowed Sales Consultants to learn techniques they could apply with their clients and customers. An optional video-based solution was also developed for Sales Consultants who didn’t have the mobile technology required to do the in-vehicle experiences. A native iOS learning app that aims to train, inform and enable networking in a smart, digital and comfortable way by leveraging on iOS technologies, whose experience is in line with on demand-platforms and the best-in-class consumer apps available on the market.

This is a joint nomination between MagicBox solution provider and Folens publishing company. Homework Space allows teachers and students to benefit from readymade, curriculum-aligned assignments while saving teachers a huge amount of time that they would have otherwise needed to grade the homework. PVR Springboard is a mobile application that hosts a number of interactive programs, assessments, discussion Groups, etc.

Users can access items such as reading material, audio, video, quiz, flashcards, surveys, etc. Users can also access success stories, visit the photo gallery and chat under various discussion topics. Milwaukee Tool is an innovative company in the hardware product space. They move fast and are enjoying growth in market share and team size. With that growth, they have sought innovative partners that share their vision for learning and development.

Float is an innovator in that space, providing consulting, products, and solutions to enterprise and government customers for years. The collaboration lead by three-time published author, Chad Udell, has resulted in the successful implementation and rollout of Float’s flagship product SparkLearn. SparkeLearn brings together adaptive delivery of microlearning content, job aids, rich media such as video and podcasts, and more. The partnership with Float invites strategic growth and feature development tied to the business’s innovation and success.

This app puts BG information such as Tech Tips, the Service Guide, and training materials right in the palm of your hand. Get direct access to assets including documents, images, and videos on BG Dashboard. Many performance support applications today are designed to provide user help and support for how to use enterprise applications. These performance support tools are embedded in all types of enterprise systems to help users understand how to use their technology to perform better at their jobs.

Inkling takes a bit of a different approach, but moving performance support out of corporate enterprise and IT systems and into mobile operations processes. We do this by embedding operational training, and knowledge right into operational forms and checklists that employees use every day to complete operational processes, cook food, set up new retail displays, comply with health and safety standards and perform maintenance on equipment.

By embedded operational training and knowledge into operational forms and checklists, Inkling brings performance support to a whole new level. Named “The Vault”, this product is available globally to over , learners and is depended on daily by thousands of unique franchise employees in their work activities. The multi-lingual system is available in over 40 languages and contains more than 25, discrete pieces of learning and performance materials. The system is developed and maintained by Float in a tight partnership with KFC Global and brings emerging technology like Augmented Reality content, xAPI, and personalized content recommendations to this leader in quick-service restaurants.

The ability to create beautiful, engaging and informative content is a critical piece of any successful social learning strategy, but creating great content quickly and at scale is often a pipe dream.

Docebo Shape allows organizations to reduce the time it takes to share knowledge at scale by mastering content creation within minutes, not months, while enhancing the learning experience with AI-built personalized content in a format learners actually prefer – short and engaging. The end result is an agile, easy-to-use training solution that doesn’t require learning leaders to change the way they do things, and instead makes what they do better.

Complement formal eLearning with peer gatherings, discussions, break out rooms, forums and more. The Collaborations and MS Teams integration makes it easier than ever for learners to get together, share knowledge, boost personal performance and achieve results.

Absorb Collaborations provides a subject centered social learning environment for experts and novices in the subject learn from each other. Absorb Collaborations allow peers share their knowledge and expertise, whether directly related to LMS courses or on independent topics. The LMS dashboard is comparable to other popular consumer experiences, such as Netflix, allowing learners to browse through a broad catalogue of courses at a glance, while using social learning cues, to suggest further learning.

Content is organised into topics and pathways, allowing individuals or teams to pursue bodies of related learning. Social fabric learning is the learning strategy and style.

As the sole unit for victim identification in disasters, Disaster Victim Identification Unit DVIU launched a trial scheme for the application of technology early in DVIS is tailor-made to expedite the whole DVI process, starting from the collection of post-mortem data to their storage, processing, transmission and eventually the mapping with ante-mortem data with an ultimate view to expediting the victim identification with strict compliance to the DVI Guide of INTERPOL in a more organized and environmentally-friendly approach.

DVIU wish to do faster and better. As self-isolation and quarantine became the norm, so too did the shift to a work-at-home model in only 22 days. With over 50, team members across 50 CX and IT delivery centers in 20 countries, TELUS International deployed a unique, holistic Work Anywhere solution to ensure the business continuity of CX operations for its clients and team members remained connected.

As the model is having great success both internally and externally we believe this is a solution that deserves the high honor of the Brandon Hall Group Awards. The automatic Lab Validation System LVS is a game-changer greatly improving student learning and engagement experience with hands-on technical training and examinations for our internal technical employee, Customer, and Channel Partners students. LVS is the first system ever built by an Akamai training team that automatically evaluates the correctness of an Akamai product configuration submitted as part of a training exercise or examination, and also provides instant feedback with scoring into which configuration components were correct and any that were not.

Testing is an integral part of training. It is paramount for recognizing skills decay. Assessment should be done on a continuous basis, and BrainCert’s Online Testing Platform is the perfect choice to measure, analyze, and view results of the test takers online easily.

Results were slow. This allows instructors and organizations an at-a-glance view of knowledge mastery and provides a roadmap to areas needing strengthening. Assessments are available for youth and adult formation.

The adult “survey” features predictive courses to be offered based on areas of weaknesses shown in the assessment results. This entry, submitted by Multilearning, demonstrates unique DIY cloud-based authoring tools with panel-based discussion forums that enable course designers to engage learners, share knowledge and quickly evaluate learner competency and the impact of the learning activity.

In addition, it demonstrates the ease of use, allowing clients to create highly interactive, rich-media learning modules with robust feedback features utilizing quizzes, evaluations and discussion forums with no additional software required or extra production costs. This entry, submitted by Turkcell, is called CaseLab. The virtual training involves joint call handling, where an experienced call centre agent coaches an agent-in-training while taking customer calls.

The technical toolkit enables the following in a virtual setting: — Both agents are connected to the call audio. With this technical toolkit, Rogers is able to continue using their award-winning experiential training programs during the pandemic when agents are at home.

G-Cube built a centralized Learning Management System for NeGD that brought the multiple government ministries and departments, working in silos, on a single platform.

Virtual training and webinars conducted through this platform to align departmental trainings at different stages to broader goals. In the wake of the pandemic, Sysmex transformed its regional symposia format, designed to provide customers with a full-day of in-person learning for continuing education units CEUs , into a virtual, interactive event. The result was a Virtual Symposia that provided customers with CEUs at no cost and Sysmex with an opportunity to strengthen customer relationships.

BrainCert offers its global clientele a virtual classroom platform that offers a built-in collaboration layer that is imperative for seamless synchronous and asynchronous collaboration capabilities between presenter teacher and attendees students. BrainCert’s Virtual Classroom can help bridge the gap and functions in nearly the same way as a traditional physical classroom.

Although, face to face components may not be a feasible solution to offer synchronicity in online courses, virtual classrooms have a far greater potential to reach out to individual students across the geographies. TQ, an award-winning global, growth-oriented, ever-expanding development program, was created in partnership with Pluralsight using Design Thinking to raise TQs through sophisticated assessments and a framework of chunked content that generate personalized learning at scale, accommodating wide-ranging individual knowledge, experience and preferences.

Area9 and Thieme have been collaborating over a number of years, in order to bring adaptive, personalized learning to the medical education sector. Thieme have developed adaptive learning content to medical students and this is available on their via medici platform.

Brainier has been exclusively focused on building configurable LMS products for over 20 years, and this entry details the latest advancements in our unique learning technology. Brainier is an incredibly flexible SaaS platform empowering organizations to uniquely configure every aspect of their learning management system.

Designed intentionally without an internal maintenance site, every element of Brainier is customizable directly within the LMS, providing administrators with complete control. Will I design slides in Photoshop prior to creating the learning course?

If so, how important is it to be able to import designs directly into the authoring tools? Minimal use of pop-up windows. Menus and buttons are clearly captioned. Working with objects can get confusing because of over-reliance on the Properties panel.

Software responsiveness The application responds well to user requests and features minimal lag and wait time when an operation is initiated. It often takes a few seconds to render a new element, paste an object, etc. During this time the application freezes until the action is completed.

Multiple projects handling Multiple projects can be open at the same time. However, each project opens in its own application window. Multiple projects are shown as tabs of the same application similar to other Adobe software you may have used in the past. Workspace customization Panels can be resized and moved around, but cannot be completely hidden.

The user can hide the panels, but cannot move them around the workspace. Tooltips Hovering the mouse pointer over buttons and options brings up helpful tooltips. No tooltips in the properties panel where the most confusion usually occurs. Workspace zoom Allows to zoom in, zoom out, fit slide to window size. Zooming in and out can only be done by selecting pre-defined zoom percentages.

Allows to fit slide to window size. Branching view Slides are arranged according to branching logic in both the story view and the slide view. To see the branching sequence, the user needs to open a menu, select an option, which will open a new window. This makes the workflow involving triggers smart and intuitive. Because the user can work on both the slide objects and the triggers at the same time, the development process becomes easy and intuitive.

In order to define advanced actions, the user has to open another panel. This panel not only blocks the slide, but also makes it impossible to interact with the objects on the slide until the advanced action is saved and the window is closed. Summary: User Experience Storyline points, Captivate points The interface in Storyline is cleaner and easier to use intuitively.

Here are some questions that can help you decide which tool will better meet your needs: Do I have time for the learning curve to occur or do I need to jump right into the authoring tool and start developing? Will I be able to create effective eLearning courses using a less convenient interface? Is my computer powerful enough to work without lag and freezing when performing operations?

Is it important to see branching logic at all times while designing the course? Will I use triggers or advanced actions, and if so, how important is it to be able to work in an intuitive interface? The Assets feature offers a large variety of templates that can be used. Icons A great selection of icons that can be used in the course.

Icons can be edited directly on the slides by ungrouping the shapes. A limited selection of icons, many searches return 0 results. Icons can only be edited through Adobe Illustrator.

Text captions Text captions can be used as shapes and converted to shapes, their properties can be changed in the Format pop-up window. You can style a text caption, but the options a limited to mostly cheesy outdated presets.

Rollover interactions Can be achieved by using triggers, states, layers. Native functionality for rollover interactions, no coding required. Interactive videos Can be achieved by using branching, triggers, layers. Out-of-the-box interactive video functionality provided.

SVG images can be used. Input controls Several kinds of input controls can be added to the slide. Only text entry input object can be added.

Miscellaneous objects Support for sliders, dials, markers, scrolling panels. No significant objects that are unique to Captivate.

Slide layers Slide layers can be used on all slides. No slide layer functionality. Drag and drops Good drag and drop functionality that could be extended with triggers. Basic drag and drop functionality. Question slides Questions slides are flexible and can be extended with triggers.

There is a little wiggle room when it comes to customizing how question slides work. Freeform interactions Several freeform interactions are supported.

Some functionality can be achieved with the use of actions. Animations Animations are limited to 16 options. A good variety of animations.

Multiple animations can be applied to a single object. Summary: Learning Design Storyline points, Captivate points If you are planning to create custom interactions, Storyline might be a better option for you. Here are some questions that can help you decide which tool will better meet your needs: Will I be using slide templates provided by the authoring tool? Are icons an important part of slide design in my work? Would I be able to build rollover interactions and interactive videos if needed?

Will I use drag and drop and freeform interactions? Will I need to use uncommon animation options? JavaScript code can be used in the course. User variables 3 types of user variables are supported. A single user variable type is available. System variables System variables are not available. A good variety of system variables is available to the user. Only variable-based conditions are possible. Summary: Advanced Functionality Storyline points, Captivate points Both tools will allow you to program custom interactions, interactive elements, complex scenarios, etc.

Here are some questions that can help you decide which tool will better meet your needs: Do I need to use the system variables to achieve the goal of my project? Will I use object-based conditions or will variable-based conditions alone be enough? Manual placement only. Guides, smart guides, and grid are not available. Preview options Users can preview the current slide, current scene, selected slide or the entire project. Some options are quite useless i.

Default labels The functionality can be achieved with feedback masters. Possibility to set default text for some text captions in the project. A somewhat active community of Captivate enthusiasts. User questions are likely to be answered. Summary: Productivity Storyline points, Captivate points While Captivate provides more preview options, Storyline wins with output options, which can often be a deal-breaker.

Here are some questions that can help you decide which tool will better meet your needs: What is the preferred format of the final deliverable? Do slide objects need to be aligned precisely? Will I be reaching out to the community if I run into problems?

Similarly, learning data can be exported to Google Sheets. Saving interaction data to the cloud Possibility to export data generated in the learning course and save it to the cloud. Learner data can be captured and saved in the cloud. Building leaderboards A leaderboard can be added to the course. The course can feature a leaderboard to boost engagement. Embedding simulated dialogs A dialog add-on can be embedded in a Storyline course.

Simulated dialogs can be added to Captivate courses. Creating custom high score lists A custom list with functionality similar to a leaderboard can be added.

Similarly, a custom list can boost engagement by providing leaderboard-like features. Editing text without re-publishing the course Dynamic text labels can be edited without having to re-publish the course. No need to publish the course if dynamic labels are used for the text. Drawing dynamic charts A chart can be drawn from user variables. A custom chart can be displayed on the slide. Drawing comparison charts Comparison charts are supported.

Similarly, comparison charts are supported. Adding a gamification timer A timer can be added to the project for advanced gamification features and engagement. A timer can be added to the project for advanced gamification features and engagement.

Displaying content fullscreen The slide and the project content can be shown in full-screen mode. The project content can be shown in full-screen mode. Adding a custom progress bar A custom progress bar can be added to a slide, and can also be placed outside the slide above, below, partially outside.

You can add a custom progress bar to the course, but it can only go on the slide itself and cannot be placed outside the slide. Sending out emails with generated content You can pre-build or generate the message content in the course and send the message out with a trigger.

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An ebook short for electronic book , also known as an e-book or eBook , is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. E-books can be read on dedicated e-reader devices, but also on any computer device that features a controllable viewing screen, including desktop computers , laptops , tablets and smartphones. In the s, there was a trend of print and e-book sales moving to the Internet , [ citation needed ] where readers buy traditional paper books and e-books on websites using e-commerce systems.

With print books, readers are increasingly browsing through images of the covers of books on publisher or bookstore websites and selecting and ordering titles online; the paper books are then delivered to the reader by mail or another delivery service. With e-books, users can browse through titles online, and then when they select and order titles, the e-book can be sent to them online or the user can download the e-book.

The main reasons for people buying e-books are possibly lower prices, increased comfort as they can buy from home or on the go with mobile devices and a larger selection of titles. In addition, for programming books, code examples can be copied.

E-books are also referred to as “ebooks”, “eBooks”, “Ebooks”, “e-Books”, “e-journals”, “e-editions”, or “digital books”. A device that is designed specifically for reading e-books is called an “e-reader”, “ebook device”, or “eReader”. Some trace the concept of an e-reader, a device that would enable the user to view books on a screen, to a manifesto by Bob Brown , written after watching his first ” talkie ” movie with sound.

He titled it The Readies , playing off the idea of the “talkie”. A simple reading machine which I can carry or move around, attach to any old electric light plug and read hundred-thousand-word novels in 10 minutes if I want to, and I want to. Brown’s notion, however, was much more focused on reforming orthography and vocabulary, than on medium “It is time to pull out the stopper” and begin “a bloody revolution of the word.

Later e-readers never followed a model at all like Brown’s; however, he correctly predicted the miniaturization and portability of e-readers. In an article, Jennifer Schuessler writes, “The machine, Brown argued, would allow readers to adjust the type size, avoid paper cuts and save trees, all while hastening the day when words could be ‘recorded directly on the palpitating ether.

Schuessler correlates it with a DJ spinning bits of old songs to create a beat or an entirely new song, as opposed to just a remix of a familiar song. The inventor of the first e-book is not widely agreed upon.

Some notable candidates include the following:. The first e-book may be the Index Thomisticus , a heavily annotated electronic index to the works of Thomas Aquinas , prepared by Roberto Busa , S. However, this work is sometimes omitted; perhaps because the digitized text was a means for studying written texts and developing linguistic concordances, rather than as a published edition in its own right.

Her idea was to create a device which would decrease the number of books that her pupils carried to school. The final device was planned to include audio recordings, a magnifying glass, a calculator and an electric light for night reading. All these systems also provided extensive hyperlinking , graphics, and other capabilities. Van Dam is generally thought to have coined the term “electronic book”, [18] [19] and it was established enough to use in an article title by FRESS was used for reading extensive primary texts online, as well as for annotation and online discussions in several courses, including English Poetry and Biochemistry.

Thus in the Preface to Person and Object he writes “The book would not have been completed without the epoch-making File Retrieval and Editing System Despite the extensive earlier history, several publications report Michael S.

Hart as the inventor of the e-book. Seeking a worthy use of this resource, he created his first electronic document by typing the United States Declaration of Independence into a computer in plain text. After Hart first adapted the U. Declaration of Independence into an electronic document in , Project Gutenberg was launched to create electronic copies of more texts, especially books.

Department of Defense began concept development for a portable electronic delivery device for technical maintenance information called project PEAM, the Portable Electronic Aid for Maintenance. Four prototypes were produced and delivered for testing in , and tests were completed in The final summary report was produced in by the U. Peter Kincaid. Harkins and Stephen H. Morriss as inventors.

In , Sony launched the Data Discman , an electronic book reader that could read e-books that were stored on CDs. One of the electronic publications that could be played on the Data Discman was called The Library of the Future. The scope of the subject matter of these e-books included technical manuals for hardware, manufacturing techniques, and other subjects.

In , Paul Baim released a freeware HyperCard stack, called EBook, that allowed easy import of any text file to create a pageable version similar to an electronic paperback book. A notable feature was automatic tracking of the last page read so that on returning to the ‘book’ you were taken back to where you had previously left off reading.

The title of this stack may have been the first instance of the term ‘ebook’ used in the modern context. As e-book formats emerged and proliferated, [ citation needed ] some garnered support from major software companies, such as Adobe with its PDF format that was introduced in Different e-reader devices followed different formats, most of them accepting books in only one or a few formats, thereby fragmenting the e-book market even more. Due to the exclusiveness and limited readerships of e-books, the fractured market of independent publishers and specialty authors lacked consensus regarding a standard for packaging and selling e-books.

Meanwhile, scholars formed the Text Encoding Initiative , which developed consensus guidelines for encoding books and other materials of scholarly interest for a variety of analytic uses as well as reading, and countless literary and other works have been developed using the TEI approach. In the late s, a consortium formed to develop the Open eBook format as a way for authors and publishers to provide a single source-document which many book-reading software and hardware platforms could handle.

Focused on portability, Open eBook as defined required subsets of XHTML and CSS ; a set of multimedia formats others could be used, but there must also be a fallback in one of the required formats , and an XML schema for a “manifest”, to list the components of a given e-book, identify a table of contents, cover art, and so on. Google Books has converted many public domain works to this open format. In , e-books continued to gain in their own specialist and underground markets.

Unofficial and occasionally unauthorized catalogs of books became available on the web, and sites devoted to e-books began disseminating information about e-books to the public. Consumer e-book publishing market are controlled by the “Big Five”. In , libraries began offering free downloadable popular fiction and non-fiction e-books to the public, launching an e-book lending model that worked much more successfully for public libraries. The U. National Library of Medicine has for many years provided PubMed , a comprehensive bibliography of medical literature.

In early , NLM set up the PubMed Central repository, which stores full-text e-book versions of many medical journal articles and books, through cooperation with scholars and publishers in the field.

Pubmed Central also now provides archiving and access to over 4. Despite the widespread adoption of e-books, some publishers and authors have not endorsed the concept of electronic publishing , citing issues with user demand, copyright infringement and challenges with proprietary devices and systems. This survey found significant barriers to conducting interlibrary loan for e-books. Mellon Foundation.

Although the demand for e-book services in libraries has grown in the first two decades of the 21st century, difficulties keep libraries from providing some e-books to clients. When a library purchases an e-book license, the cost is at least three times what it would be for a personal consumer. However, some studies have found the opposite effect to be true for example, Hilton and Wikey The Internet Archive and Open Library offer more than six million fully accessible public domain e-books.

Project Gutenberg has over 52, freely available public domain e-books. An e-reader , also called an e-book reader or e-book device , is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading e-books and digital periodicals.

An e-reader is similar in form, but more limited in purpose than a tablet. In comparison to tablets, many e-readers are better than tablets for reading because they are more portable, have better readability in sunlight and have longer battery life. Until late , use of an e-reader was not allowed on airplanes during takeoff and landing by the FAA. Some of the major book retailers and multiple third-party developers offer free and in some third-party cases, premium paid e-reader software applications apps for the Mac and PC computers as well as for Android, Blackberry, iPad, iPhone, Windows Phone and Palm OS devices to allow the reading of e-books and other documents independently of dedicated e-book devices.

Writers and publishers have many formats to choose from when publishing e-books. Each format has advantages and disadvantages. The most popular e-readers [] and their natively supported formats are shown below:. Most e-book publishers do not warn their customers about the possible implications of the digital rights management tied to their products. Generally, they claim that digital rights management is meant to prevent illegal copying of the e-book.

However, in many cases, it is also possible that digital rights management will result in the complete denial of access by the purchaser to the e-book. The first major publisher to omit DRM was Tor Books , one of the largest publishers of science fiction and fantasy, in Some e-books are produced simultaneously with the production of a printed format, as described in electronic publishing , though in many instances they may not be put on sale until later.

Often, e-books are produced from pre-existing hard-copy books, generally by document scanning , sometimes with the use of robotic book scanners , having the technology to quickly scan books without damaging the original print edition. Scanning a book produces a set of image files, which may additionally be converted into text format by an OCR program.

Sometimes only the electronic version of a book is produced by the publisher. It is also possible to convert an electronic book to a printed book by print on demand. However, these are exceptions as tradition dictates that a book be launched in the print format and later if the author wishes an electronic version is produced. The New York Times keeps a list of best-selling e-books, for both fiction [] and non-fiction. All of the e-readers and reading apps are capable of tracking e-book reading data, and the data could contain which e-books users open, how long the users spend reading each e-book and how much of each e-book is finished.

Some of the results were that only In the space that a comparably sized physical book takes up, an e-reader can contain thousands of e-books, limited only by its memory capacity. Depending on the device, an e-book may be readable in low light or even total darkness. Many e-readers have a built-in light source, can enlarge or change fonts, use text-to-speech software to read the text aloud for visually impaired, elderly or dyslexic people or just for convenience.

Printed books use three times more raw materials and 78 times more water to produce when compared to e-books. Depending on possible digital rights management , e-books unlike physical books can be backed up and recovered in the case of loss or damage to the device on which they are stored, a new copy can be downloaded without incurring an additional cost from the distributor.

Readers can synchronize their reading location, highlights and bookmarks across several devices. There may be a lack of privacy for the user’s e-book reading activities; for example, Amazon knows the user’s identity, what the user is reading, whether the user has finished the book, what page the user is on, how long the user has spent on each page, and which passages the user may have highlighted.

Joe Queenan has written about the pros and cons of e-books:. Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books.

Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. Apart from all the emotional and habitual aspects, there are also some readability and usability issues that need to be addressed by publishers and software developers.

Many e-book readers who complain about eyestrain, lack of overview and distractions could be helped if they could use a more suitable device or a more user-friendly reading application, but when they buy or borrow a DRM-protected e-book, they often have to read the book on the default device or application, even if it has insufficient functionality.