Tony Karrer

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Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) for Managing Course Assets

Tony Karrer

They have an LMS but not an LCMS. A long time ago, the goal of an LCMS was to help to manage all of these kinds of assets. Along the way, a lot of the LCMS products on the market have become more about a kind of authoring approached with content stored in a database that is transformed into courseware. Sound familiar?

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Digital Asset Management – LCMS, ECM and SharePoint

Tony Karrer

Vic provides the following list of reasons that companies use his digital asset management software for eLearning projects: The companies that employ our target audience strongly discourage employees from putting company assets on ‘public’ sites. Does the LCMS already provide this for you? Am I wrong on that?

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Mobile Learning and the Continuing Death of Flash

Tony Karrer

By way of background, Rapid Intake provides tools that allow you to very rapidly input content that is composed into courses. The really nice thing for them is that they are a form-based authoring tool (much like an LCMS ). Now any document can become a Web page." The death of Flash is continuing. eLearning Technology.

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LCMS - Warehouse and Authoring

Tony Karrer

I’ve received some good feedback on my post Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) for Managing Course Assets. One thing is pretty clear, LCMS tools have really headed towards a kind of super Authoring tool and there's a related but quite distinct need for support for a Warehouse. Another problem solved by LCMS technology.

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Leading with an LMS - Harmful to Your Health (or Skipping Stages in Bersin's Four Stage Model)

Tony Karrer

If, as Josh suggests, you only need off-the-shelf courses, then you likely can use your providers' LMS implementation. Second, I would suggest that you follow the Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids and skip right to Stage 4 (minus the LCMS).

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View of eLearning Development Approaches - Ease vs. Power

Tony Karrer

and Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids , I've realized that one of the mental models I use can be roughly summarized by the following picture: where Ease is roughly how easy (cost, time) is it to develop using that approach and Power is the ability of the tool to provide robust, complex learning solutions.

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Stephen Downes is Wrong? Is It Really Cool?

Tony Karrer

The point I want everyone to take away from doing the exercise in the original post is the ease with which you can pull together an application made up of services being provided by separate entities and the ease of doing this authoring of your home page through a web interface. And, none of that is the point. This is authoring 2010.

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