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of courses for leadership and managerial skills.
33. CRKInteractive Inc. This URL returns the
message “Portal not found”. The portal is available at
but a login is required. Sales, customer service, leadership skills.
34. Custom Guide www.customguide.com Information technology skills
35. CU Training Inc. Couses for credit unions. Also offer
TLC LMS, MENTOR – a course authoring tool, and numerous courses for credit
unions. Based in Nanaimo, BC.
36. Discovery Campus Healthcare courses.
37. eCornell Leadership and management.
38. ed2go (Education to Go) Business, technology, and
personal development skills online learning for adults with a network of 1800
colleges and universities. Is owned by Cengage Learning and includes the
former Gatlin Educational Services.
39. Edcomm Group Bankers Academy Classroom and
online learning for the banking sector and beyond.
40. Educacorp A Spanish company with no option for
English on their website.
41. ej
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MAXECUTION Video Sales, communications, business
skills video training.
42. eLearningCanadaDepot.com Formerly
TrainingontheWeb.net
43. Element K Over 2000 technology, business and
compliance courses. Owned by NIIT Global www.niit.com for a while but
purchased by Skillsoft in 2011.

44. Elsevier Elsevier is a major publisher of science and
health information based in Amsterdam, NL. Online health care training offered
under the Mosby’s Nursing Suite brand. Also offer a community site for students
called Evolve (
45. emPower (emPowerbpo) Provide courses with a
health care emphasis and an LMS with compliance tracking.
46. Empowered Training Centre LLC
Childcare, healthcare, business and compliance courses. Also offer a technology
called MILES to assess knowledge gaps.
47. Enspire Learning Leadership and business
simulations, courses for sales, marketing and medical.
48. Essential Learning (Essential Learning) They
offer many courses through their online LMS CEQuick
and a full scale organizational LMS.
49. EssentialSkillz (EssentialSkillz, UK) Health and
safety courses.
50. General Physics Corporation Custom course
development – focus on the engineering industry. Purchased RWD in March,
2011.
51. GlobalEnglish Corporation Online English
learning.
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52. Global Knowledge Network Training Ltd. IT
and management training. They also offer an LMS. This is not the company
purchased by Oracle).
53. Global Novations. Diversity, talent selection and
development, communications, 70 management and business skills courses.

54. goFluent. English language training for native
speakers of many different languages by phone or eLearning.
55. Harvard Business School Publishing More than
5000 courses on management and technology. Also offer Harvard
ManageMentor.
56. Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. Healthcare
specialist. Offer over 1,000 online courses on compliance, HIPAA, sexual
harassment, OSHA, nurse mandatories, coding, billing and reimbursement,
cultural competency, clinical skills, and other subjects. Also offer an LMS in two
versions - HLP and SimPl (a low-cost version).
57. IEEE eLearning Library Electrical engineering
courses available online.
58. IHRDC (International Human Resources Development Corporation)
Training for the oil and gas industries.
59. Impact Learning Systems Customer service
training, help desk training, and sales training.
60. Infinite Skills Computer applications training –
Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, Autodesk.
61. Integrity Interactive Specialists in ethics
and compliance courses. Purchased by SAI Global in Sept. 2010. The website
is still accessible.
62. International Institute for Learning (IiL) Offer computer
based project management and IT service management simulations and many
other business courses.
63. ITC Learning Industrial technical and personal
computer skills training.
64. K
12
International Academy (K
12

Inc.) An online provider of
curriculum for grades K through 12. Purchased KC Distance Learning in 2010.
65. KahnAcademy (Kahn Academy) A free source of
2600 short videos and 225 practice exercises on a wide range of topics.
66. Kaplan Virtual Education (Kaplan, Inc.)
Provides customized online curriculum for grades 6 - 12.
67. KC Distance Learning (KC Distance Learning, Inc.)
Distance learning programs for middle school
and high school students. Three divisions - Aventa Learning, iQ Academy and
the Keystone School. Purchased by K
12
Inc. in 2010.
68. Knowledge Quest University Personal computer
skills.
69. Knowledge Pills . 15 minutes pieces on
business, communications, leadership and technology.
70. KnowledgePool MyTrainingExpert (KnowledgePool Group Limited)
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Based in the UK. Courses on business and
management, IT, personal communication, project management, sales and
marketing skills.
71. LearnKey Inc. Principally IT courses (“nearly
1000”).
72. LocalGovU . Online training for employees of local
governments. Appears to be affiliated with SchoolDistrictU. Website not
currently available (as of July 18, 2011). Has an online LMS which is not
available as a separate product.

73. Lynda.com. Online software videos.
74. Majorium Business Press Pinpoint Skill Development Training Series.
Leadership, management, sales, sales
management, customer service and workplace compliance.
75. Martec International Custom designed
training for the retail industry.
76. McGraw Hill Education
77. MCN Learning An Saas provider of healthcare
courses. Also offer the Edept LMS.
78. Medcom-Trainex (Medcom, Inc.) Healthcare and
sales courses. Also offer Medcom T3 Learning Management System.
79. Mediapro Corporate mentoring, HIPAA (Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), Privacy training.
80. MindEdge Inc. Higher education – business and
management, health sciences, arts and sciences, IT.
81. MindLeaders/ThirdForce Business, personal
computer skills, Health and safety, HIPAA training. Merged with Thirdforce in
2007. Will be known simply as Mindleaders as of January 2012.
82. NeoVistas (NeoVistas, India)
83. Netex Learning Coffee – Application Training (Netex Knowledge Factory)
Enterprise
software training. Based in India.
84. New Horizons Worldwide Inc. Mostly offer
computer skills courses. Has a partnership with MindLeaders.
85. Ninth House Management and leadership courses.
86. OpenSesame . A marketplace for buying and selling
online courses.
87. Orchard Software Differentiated instruction in
mathematics, reading, writing, language arts, and science for grades Pre-K-9.
88. Pearson CourseConnect (Pearson Education)

A large library of online courses.
89. Pearson.learn (Pearson Education) On online college
courseware provider. Formerly Intellipro and purchased by Pearson Education in
2009.
90. Pearson School K-12 courseware and other
resources. Also known as Pearson Digital Learning.
91. Plato Learning (Plato Learning, Inc.) Online courses for
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elementary, secondary and post-secondary students.
92. Portico Learning Solutions Libraries include:
Employment Law, Safety and Health, Medical Compliance, and Maritime
Security. Formerly Flying Fish.
93. PrimeLearning Communications, customer
service, compliance, management, human resources, project management,
marketing, professional development, finance, sales. Serve an international
market.
94. ProTrain (ProTrain Edu) Partners with colleges and
universities to offer online courses in business, technology, education, health
care, trades and law.
95. QualityTrainingPortal.com (part of Resource Engineering Inc.)
. Online courses to support quality and
productivity improvement initiatives. Also offer Esprit LMS (an LMS for ToolBook
courses)
96. QuicKnowledge Inc. Business and
communications courses.
97. Richardson QuickSkills Sales and customer
service. Also offer Sales Performance System (SPS) – a consulting model.

98. Risk Management Association RMA University
Caters to the financial lending sector.
Offers courses leading to credit skills certification and eMentor – a collection of
resources for the sector.
99. Rosetta Stone Language training.
100. SAI Global Specialists in compliance and ethics
courses. Purchased Integrity Interactive in Sept. 2010. Also offer custom course
design and a Learning Management System.
101. Sales Training International Sales training, sales
management training, and customer service training
102. SchoolDistrictU . Online training for classified
(non-teaching) staff of school districts. Appears to be affiliated with LocalGovU.
Website not currently available (as of July 18, 2011). Has an online LMS which is
not available as a separate product.
103. Serebra IT and business skills courses. Also offer
Serebra Campus – an LMS. A merger between Serebra and Bluedrop was
announced on March 24, 2011.
104. SkillSoft Business, compliance, IT, Computer, financial
skills – 1000’s of courses. With its purchase of Smartforce, NETg, and (in 2011)
Element K, Skillsoft is by far the single largest vendor of online courses.
105. Solocks.com Training Inc. Offer regulatory
compliance training for WHMIS, Transportation of Dangerous Goods (TDG),
Office Ergonomics and Asbestos Awareness. Based in Vancouver, BC.
106. Smart Horizons (a division of Advanced Systems Technology)
Business and computing skills, early childhood
professional development, driver training, telecommunications training, training
for public safety, patient safety, security, law enforcement, and first responder
professionals, etc. Also offer the NexPort training platform.
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107. SmartPros (SmartPros Ltd.) Compliance, financial,
engineering and legal training. Also offer an LMS - SmartPros® eCampus™
Learning Management System.
108. Summit Training Source (Summit Training Source, Inc)
Safety, health and environmental courses.
109. Syntrio 80 courses on Communication, management,
leadership, personal development, sales and service and legal compliance.
110. TeachMeIt (InfoPro Worldwide Corporation) Offer
280 technical and non-technical computer training courses. Also offer an LMS
(See InfoPro)
111. Telephone Doctor Customer Service Training (Telephone Doctor Customer
Service Training) . Customer service training.
Online courses are found at www.ServiceSkills.com.
112. Teleplace (Teleplace, Inc.) More than just a virtual
classroom – provides additional tool for collaboration and sharing. Also offer the
OpenQwaq project which is an open source version of the Teleplace tools.
113. The Human Equation Human Resources
Foundations and Compliance, Driver and Fleet Management, Ethics for lawyers,
Workplace Injury and Loss Prevention, Risk Management and Safety
114. The Quality Group Six Sigma courses
115. Thirdforce Offer 100’s of courses on a wide range of
topics. Merged with Mindleaders in 2007.
116. TRC Interactive Inc. Training for financial
institutions - teller, compliance, sales, customer service, products and services,
personal development, trainer, and management training. They also offer
BankTrainingOnline which is a package that
includes courses and a learning management system called Training Central.
117. Vivid Learning Systems (Vivid Learning Systems, Inc.)

. Primarily compliance training such as OSHA and
food safety, they also offer a Learning Management System called eClarus.
118. Vubiz Ltd. Courses on topics - privacy, small business, e-
commerce, business & personal development, human resources management,
business fundamentals, financial, marketing, goal setting, management, sales,
international business, community development, management, customer service,
business communication, health and safety, education, non-profits, desktop.
119. Wiztrack Solutions They offer custom
development of courses and are a reseller of courses from New York Institute of
Finance (NYIF), Primelearning.com, KESDEE Inc., and QAI Global Institute.
Also offer the Wizdom LMS. Based in India.
120. XanEdu Provide custom textbooks and CoursePacks
both in digital and print form for post-secondary courses (Business and
Education) and for business.
121. YouAchieve.com Inc. . Courses on communication,
customer service, financial management, business skills, leadership,
management, marketing, personal effectiveness, sales, technology, ethics,
values and diversity. Also offer third party LMS, authoring tools and custom
development. Vancouver based.
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Education Learning Management Systems (ELMS)
(also called Course Management Systems but that is too easily confused with Content
Management Systems). They are also called Virtual Learning Environments (VLE).
They are similar to corporate LMSs and/or LCMSs but specifically target the formal
educational environment. Some education oriented systems call themselves LCMSs.
Because their primary function is the creation and delivery of content, this is quite
understandable. I prefer to call them education LMSs and have them separately in this
category. Most open source systems are designed for formal education.
Educational institutions are usually already well equipped for registration and
management of classroom instruction so Education LMSs tend to be strictly for online
learning and typically do not include classroom registration capability. They usually
provide course authoring and some content management features as well. They also
emphasize communication and collaboration features. They are generally built on the
assumption that an instructor is always available to build course content and to
communicate with students.
There are businesses that choose to use ELMS products – particularly those that
support the use of open source tools. And the reverse is true - sometimes a corporate
LMS is appropriate for the formal education sector, for example, to be used for distance
education.

There are two categories – commercial (proprietary) and open source.

Commercial Education LMSs
1. Academic Systems LMS (Academic Systems)
A web-based system. Also offer a Video
Conferencing Virtual Class Management System.
2. Agilix BrainHoney (Agilix Labs) and

Online. Free for individuals. Also offer BrainHoney
“ToGo”, Brainhoney Schoolmate, GoCourse and other products.
3. Akuter Enterprise (Akuter) Based in Vancouver. Has
offices in California and France.
4. A New Spring LMS (A New Spring) Includes
authoring and LCMS capability. Based in Netherlands.
5. Angel Learning Purchased by Blackboard in
May, 2009. Blackboard still offers Blackboard Learn Angel Edition
(
6. AsknLearn EduLearn and Wizlearn Learning Management Systems
(ASKnLearn Pte Ltd.) Edulearn is an LMS for
schools. The WizLearn LMS is for private schools and post-secondary
education. Based in Singapore, they describe themselves as “Pan-Asian”.
7. Blackboard CourseSites (Blackboard Inc.) A
“free” (up to five course websites) cloud-based LMS with authoring from
Blackboard.
8. Blackboard Learn (Blackboard Inc.) Blackboard
purchased Prometheus in 2003, WebCT in 2005, Angel Learning in May, 2009
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and Elluminate and Wimba (virtual classroom tools) in July, 2010 making it the
dominant commercial educational LMS. The Vista version of WebCT is being
phased out by Blackboard in 2013 and replaced with Blackboard Learn.
Blackboard also purchased iStrategy () in 2010 and
incorporated it into Blackboard Analytics suggesting a move into broader school
administration. Blackboard itself was purchased by Providence Equity Partners in
June, 2011.
9. CampusCE LMS (CampusCE) Both LMS and

LCMS. Primary market is higher education but also market to corporations.
10. CAMS Enterprise (Three Rivers Systems, Inc.) eerivers-
cams.com/. A “comprehensive academic management system” (CAMS) for
colleges and universities. An ERP (enterprise resource planning system) with
learning management included.
11. CCNet (Zumo Software Inc.)
Based in Canada.
12. Class.com ZENITH (Class.com Inc.) A web-based
delivery system for Class.com’s middle and high school course content. To be
acquired by Cambium Learning Group Inc. in 2011.
13. Compass e-Tutor (Compass Media Ltd.). Based in
Korea, they specialize in English language instruction. They describe e-Tutor as
“an integrative writing learning system that allows the student to take voice-based
online speaking tutorials and manage his or her own learning portfolio.”
14. Connections Academy Learning Management System (Connections
Academy, LLC) "Connections Academy is
an online tuition-free, fully accredited public school for students in grades K–12."
They built their own LMS but it is unclear if it is available for purchase by other
institutions.
15. CourseNetworking (CN) (CourseNetworking) A
unique product described as “a free, online platform that connects teachers and
students from around the world based on shared interests and class subjects. It
combines the social component of popular networks with the functionality of
existing learning management systems (LMS).” From Indiana University
professor Ali Jafari. To be available in early 2012.
16. Coursekit (Coursekit LLC) Developed at the
University of Pennsylvania. Designed to work like Facebook.
17. Desire2Learn Learning Suite (Desire2Learn Incorporated)
. For K-12 schools, higher education and
corporations. In April, 2011 they acquired Captual Technologies Inc. to offer

presentation capture and webcasting solutions called Desire2Learn Capture
(formerly ePresence). Based in Kitchener, ON, Canada
18. DigitalChalk Online Training Software (DigitalChalk)
An online system for creation and delivery of
elearning. Includes authoring, video, and tests. Markets to both business and
education.
19. eCornell EDUCE Enterprise Learning Platform (eCornell, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Cornell University) The delivery system for
eCornell’s many online courses.
20. Edline (Edline, A Blackboard Company) The company
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offers an LCMS and online LMS. The purchase of both Blackboard and Edline by
Providence Equity in 2011 will result in a merger with Blackboard.
21. EdServe Vidhyadhana Academy (EdServ Softsystems Limited)
A complete school management system including
LMS. Based in India and appears to target Indian schools.
22. EduBrite SaaS (EduBrite Systems Inc.) A social
collaborative learning system with course management features. Marketed to
both corporate and education clients.
23. Educadium EasyCampus Virtual School Builder LMS (Educadium)
Cloud based. Free for up to 25 users.
24. Education2020 (e2020) Platform (Education2020)
Primarily a provider of online U.S. curriculum for
grades 6 – 12, they also provide an online “instructional management” platform
and a “Virtual Classroom” (online access to courses 24 x 7 – not the virtual
classroom/web conferencing tool that provides synchronous meetings) and a
“Virtual Tutor” for exam preparation.

25. Educator (Ucompass.com, Inc)
26. Edumate 2 (Edumate) Based in Australia.
27. Eduset (Eduset, LLC) A web-hosted educational
communications tool.
28. Edvance360 LMS (Edvance360) Provides
enterprise LMS to all types of learning organizations. Includes social networking.
Formerly Scholar360.
29. Epignosis eFront (Epignosis Ltd) Based in Greece. Website
is in English. This is an open-source product which Epignosis supports.
30. Epsilen Global Learning Management System (Epsilen, LLC)
.
31. Excelsoft SARAS Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) (Excelsoft
Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) Based in India. Various
versions offered for the corporate and education (both K-12 and post-secondary)
sectors.
32. eZ LMS University of North Dakota Aerospace Network
33. Frog Learning Platform (FrogTrade Ltd.) Based in
the UK. Provides platforms for elementary and secondary schools and for
parents.
34. Fronter (Fronter AS) o/. Based in Norway. Now owned by
Pearson but still exists as a separately available product.
35. GuiWeb Event Registrar (Gui Productions, Inc. & GuiWeb.com)
An inexpensive, hosted LMS with ebusiness features for
both schools and companies.
36. Haiku Learning Management System (Haiku Learning Systems)
A K-12 SaaS LMS. Has partnered with SoftChalk
for content authoring.
37. HotChalk Learning Management System (HotChalk Media Group)
Proprietary but provided free - ad-supported.
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large Russian IT services company which purchased Learnware
( in March, 2008. The Learnware website is mostly in
Russian and does not appear to be directly accessible from the IBS site.
eLearning Server is a distance learning system. They also offer assessment
tools, an LCMS called eLearning CMS, and an authoring tool called eAuthor CBT.
39. InfoSource SimpleK12 (InfoSource, Inc.)
and Also offer SimpleProductivity ple-
productivity.com/ for corporate training.
40. Instructure Canvas (Instructure Inc.) An Internet
hosted open source LMS, free for teachers.
41. IntraLearn (IntraLearn Software Corporation) They
also offer IntraLearn LSP and LearningServer for Microsoft.NET and Sharepoint.
42. Intuto . New Zealand based course management system
43. IQity Learning Suite (IQity) First developed for use in
Ohio schools by Altair Learning Management, it has now been adopted in
California as CaliQity.
44. it's learning Individual Learning Platform (it's learning Inc,)
. For K-12 and post-secondary education. Based in
Norway. Distributed in the US by Embanet.
45. iversity (iversity GmbH) Based in Berlin and supported
by the European Union. It is a free cloud-based (not technically open source)
LMS that supports Inter-institutional cooperation (academic networking) and
“social reading”.
46. Janison Toolbox . Based in Australia.
47. Jenzabar e-Racer Learning Management System
Primarily for post-secondary education. Part of the Jenzabar EX enterprise

resource planning system, Jenzabar's Internet Campus Solution (JICS)
48. Jones e-education Software Standard (JESS) (Jones Knowledge Group, Inc.)
For both academic and corporate use.
49. JoomlaLMS (Joomla LMS) Joomla is an open source
website content management system. JoomlaLMS is an LMS version of it. They
also offer authoring tools from ElearningForce.
50. Krawler LMS (Krawler Networks) . Also offer an
LCMS with content authoring and test creation, a virtual classroom, and Campus
Management for educational institutions. Based in India.
51. Learning Technology Partners iCampus 360 (Learning Technology Partners)
Includes “student lifecycle management”.
52. Learnwise (Granada Learning Limited, UK) Product
still seems to be available but website blank on Feb. 22, 2011.
53. LearnCentrix (LearnCentrix, LLC)
54. Learnopia.com (Learnopia) One of the new breed of
online LMSs.
55. Link2School Learn (White House Business Solutions (P) Ltd.)
Also provide Link2School Campus and
Link2School Edusuite. Based in India.
56. LiveText Learning Assessment and Accreditation Management System™
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(LiveText Inc.) .
57. LoudCloud University Ecosystem (LoudCloud Systems)
A full-featured, cloud-based LMS for
universities.
58. Marshall Cavendish Online Learning Portal (MC Online Pte Ltd (Formerly
known as Learning EDvantage Pte Ltd)) Based in

Singapore and oriented to Singapore schools. Also known as the LEAD Learning
Management System.
59. Microsoft Learning Gateway (Microsoft)
The Learning
Gateway from Microsoft is a Web-based collaboration, communications, and
content delivery framework tailored for the education system. It enables teachers
to manage their administrative workload, empowers students to learn at their own
pace, and helps parents become more involved in their children's education. It is
based on SharePoint.
60. Novachi (Novachi Inc.) A complete web hosted school
administration product that includes an LMS.
61. Open Text FirstClass (This is a Canadian product
which has evolved over 15 years and is now a division of Open Text based in
Waterloo, Ontario). Open Text purchased Operitel in Sept. 2011 expanding its
LMS offerings into the corporate sector.
62. PBworks (PBwiki, Inc.) Not exactly an LMS, PBworks
provides resources, workspaces and administration to support online
collaboration.
63. Pearson EQUELLA (Pearson Education, Inc.) A Digital
Repository incorporating Learning Objects, Learning Content Management and
integrated content authoring. Formerly The Learning Edge EQUELLA LCMS
from The Learning Edge International in Australia.
64. Pearson SuccessNet Plus (Pearson Education, Inc.)
An online (hosted) K-12 LMS which integrates
with Pearson’s other curriculum materials.
65. Pearson LearningStudio (Pearson Education, Inc.)
An SaaS
LMS for higher education. Pearson has recently purchased eCollege, Fronter,
Intellipro and TutorVista, an online tutoring service. LearningStudio includes both
eCollege and Fronter.

66. Pearson OpenClass (Pearson Education, Inc.) A
free LMS integrated with Google (a Google App) announced in October, 2011.
Pearson is the largest education company in the world but has so far had little
impact on the LMS market. This announcement could change that although it
has been met with some skepticism.
67. PLATO Learning Environment (PLE) (Plato Learning) . A
suite of tools including assessment and content primarily aimed at the formal
education sector.
68. Reazon Systems RCampus (Reazon Systems, Inc.)
69. RM Learning Platform (RM) A K-12 LMS which
includes authoring capability. Also offer specialized software for teachers.
Originally based in UK, now has international offices.