eLearning Guild Research: Thinking (Guild) Research at LSCon 2013 with Some Very Smart Folks

Imagine this: A breakout sessionwith five opinionated Guild Research writers at the recent Learning SolutionsConference in Orlando, jam-packed with questions and laughter from bothpanelists and audience members. I’ll share a little of the fun from thatsession.

Each of us presented a few chartsfrom a research report and then took questions from the audience. There waslots of friendly competition among panelists to see who got the most audienceinterest! Get this … Joe Ganci left early in a huff. (Oops, I’m making that up.He had a webinar to give. Or at least that’s what he said!)

To help you feel like you werethere, I’ll share a few of the slides from the session and provide links to thereports so you can download the reports to read more.

I presented some salary trend datafrom the 2013 Global Salary andCompensation Report (Figure 1) showing that salaries have been flat worldwideover the past five years (except in Australia).

Figure 1: Salary trend infour countries from the 2013 Global Salary& Compensation Report

The 2013 eLearning Guild 2013 Salary and Compensation Report isfree to all Guild members, including Associatemembers, and you can download it here.The data in this report represents survey responses from more than 4,700eLearning Guild members and examines the trends in pay for eLearningprofessionals worldwide, including areas of variance such as years ineLearning, education, company size, and location.

Joe Ganci discussed data from the RapideLearning Authoring: Top Tools reportand looked ahead to what we can expect to see change (Figure 2). You candownload The 2011 Rapid eLearningAuthoring: Top Tools report here.Be on the lookout for a new authoring tools survey coming from us so we canupdate this report! In the meantime, check out Joe’s recent article in Learning SolutionsMagazine on choosing the right authoring tool.

Figure 2: Top rapid eLearningtools from the 2011 eLearning Guild survey and Joe’s notes about likely changes

Jane Bozarth started out bytalking about organizations’ use of social media for learning by sector (Figure3) from the Social Media for Learning report. Shesaid that it’s important to be able to tell the difference between social learning and social media. She wrote a terrific article on this topic for LearningSolutions Magazine that’s a must read.

Figure 3: Organizations’ use of social media for learning by sector

Clark Quinn discussed mLearning plans by year (Figure 4) and added that he’s seen major growth in mobile learningalready in 2013.

Figure 4: mLearning plans by year

I highly recommend Clark’s blog, Learnlets: https://blog.learnlets.com. Itoften helps me rethink what I think I know as a learning analyst.

I hope I’ve given you a sense ofwhat it was like talking about research and learning with some of the smartestpeople I know. It was, in a word, awesome.