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The global eLearning market was worth an impressive $107 billion in 2015 [1]. By 2025, however, Research and Markets believe that it will reach a staggering total market value of $325 billion [1]. The reasons for this explosion in value come on the back of several main drivers: the need to educate vast numbers of people at low cost, the falling price of learning solutions, the needs of the modern workforce to engage in life-long learning, and the fact that learning through an internet portal is often more convenient than going to school. The majority of the growth in the eLearning market will come from demand in developing countries.

2. The Self-Paced eLearning Market Will Decline To $33.5 Billion By 2021

77% Of US Companies Used Online Learning In 2017

Video-enhanced learning tools however are relatively inexpensive to produce, can be viewed when it’s convenient and without the need for travel

Live presentations can be recorded and time stamped, so when they are used for training, managers can refer to specific sections according to relevance. This saves time and increases engagement with the subject matter.

The ease with which videos can be produced also provides companies with the ability to take control over their training processes,

the average company was able to roll out new products, services and IT systems over 20% faster. It also highlights average companies were achieving a 23% improvement in study time, 24% faster delivery time, 22% reduction in cost of training, 26% improvement in learning reach and 16% improvement in time to competency.

90% of Learning & Development professionals are looking to integrate learning into their company’s different functions, i.e. sales, customer service, talent and production, with 41% saying that this is critical.

95% want to use technology to increase the sharing of good practice but only 25% are currently achieving this, 92% of organisations seek to use learning technologies to respond faster to business change, but only 25% achieve this; 94% of organisations seek to speed up the application of learning back into the workplace, but only 23% achieve this; and 91% seek to improve talent or performance management, but only 20% achieve this.

Microsoft SharePoint has broadened significantly since it first launched in 2001, but one feature it still lacks is video support. That's being remedied today, as Ramp, a content optimization company based in Boston, Massachusetts, unveils MediaCloud for SharePoint at the SharePoint Conference 2012.

Look for it to gain Yammer integration, the ability to suggest related videos and documents along a timeline while a video is playing

We’ve seen the company do all it can to amp up one of its newer features by making live broadcasts more visible on your timeline, adding them to your trending stories and even notifying you each time a friend or someone you follow is broadcasting live. All of these are positive steps to give content producers real reason to take advantage of live video.

In addition, ‘Total Performance Insights‘ brings even better analytics to video including two really outstanding features: the ability to measure stats on video crossposted to multiple pages and a heatmap that allows 360 degree video creators to see the areas their audiences are honing in on.

When it comes to the use of video in education, the over-riding theme — as we might expect — is more, more, more

58 percent of colleges are running flipped classes, up from 50 percent last year. Lecture capture has grown by five percentage points to 77 percent and webcasting has gone up by four percentage points to 51 percent over the same period.

In K-12, 87 percent of schools are using video in the classroom, compared to 86 percent in higher ed

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It is important to acquire new tools that can help your business grow. As technology and trends evolve, your company should follow suit and your approach to your work should be altered to some degree. There are many tools available that can help you increase productivity, make management easier, and boost efficacy. Even though you might have to pay for these tools, they end up saving you money in the long run, and they also make the whole job a lot more pleasant.

While investment to date is on track for a slight decline from last year, deal activity in HR tech has grown consistently in the last 5 years and at the current rate is expected to increase more than 15 percent over 2015. This amazing investment growth—much of it spent on integrated human resource management system (HRMS) platforms for midsize companies—illustrates the industry’s volatility. That instability is being driven by the shift from cloud to mobile; the explosion in analytics and artificial intelligence; and the emergence of video, social recruiting and wearables in the workplace. Everything is changing, and quickly—including the types of technology HR professionals use, the experiences those systems deliver and the underlying software designs—making many of the traditional HR systems purchased only a decade ago seem out of date.

The world’s second largest video site, Dailymotion, is dramatically expanding its white label video service in an attempt to draw in more professional content companies and media creators.

While ATEME and others work on HEVC, the company says its new codec can deliver 4K and 8K video over IP using existing MPEG-4 compression

Digital strategy drives digital maturity. Only 15% of respondents from companies at the early stages of what we call digital maturity — an organization where digital has transformed processes, talent engagement and business models — say that their organizations have a clear and coherent digital strategy. Among the digitally maturing, more than 80% do.

The power of a digital transformation strategy lies in its scope and objectives. Less digitally mature organizations tend to focus on individual technologies and have strategies that are decidedly operational in focus. Digital strategies in the most mature organizations are developed with an eye on transforming the business.

Maturing digital organizations build skills to realize the strategy. Digitally maturing organizations are four times more likely to provide employees with needed skills than are organizations at lower ends of the spectrum.

Siemens IT Solutions and Services, which provides IT solutions and outsourcing services for global customers, has announced that it will resell Kaltura's video solutions. It will offer then as stand-alone products as well as integrated with Sieman's own solutions, and will target the media, enterprise, education, and service provider markets.

What online video innovation blew your mind in 2011? The fifth-annual Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards is a chance for you to show a little love to the products, services, and companies that you think outshine the rest.  Winners will be unveiled at Streaming Media West in Los Angeles on November 9.

More than eight in ten executives (84 percent) in this year’s survey view learning as an important (40 percent) or very important (44 percent) issue. Employees at all levels expect dynamic, self-directed, continuous learning opportunities from their employers. Despite the strong shift toward employee-centric learning, many learning and development organizations are still struggling with internally focused and outdated platforms and static learning approaches.

To facilitate the effort to help employees “learn how to learn,” L&D teams are building internal knowledge-sharing programs, developing easy-to-use portals and video sharing systems, and promoting collaborative experiences at work that help people constantly learn and share knowledge.

Almost $1 billion of this went into tools, content, and companies that focus on the corporate market.6