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What’s the Difference Between an LMS and an LCMS? Hint: It’s Not Just the Letter “C”

Association eLearning

For example, you’ve likely seen Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) discussed on various websites and company pages. How is an LCMS Different from an LMS? An LCMS goes one step farther. If an LCMS does everything an LMS can, plus more, why would I want an LMS?”.

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LMS and LCMS Meets Learning Ecosystem

Instancy

A Learning Management System (LMS) is different from a Learning Content Management System (LCMS). How they integrate and coexist depends on the vendor, but how they fit into the learning ecosystem is valuable when determining the tools you currently use or want to use in the future. LCMS vs LMS: What is the Difference?

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LMS, LCMS, Content Authoring: Exploring eLearning Tools

WBT Systems

A Learning Content Management System (LCMS) typically is an LMS to which the LMS vendor has added an authoring tool. For example, discussion forums can be used to encourage debate and collaborative learning when tied to a particular course or module. Which eLearning Tool is Right for You?

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Learning Thursday #10 – The Many Acronyms of Learning Technology

Adobe Captivate

Learning Thursday is a blog series that features a new L&D article every other week along with discussion points. Take learning technology vendors for example. Because there’s the need for vendors to market their platforms. Read and then share your own ideas by commenting below! You’d think we were NASA.

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Did you know? Learning Systems Vol 3

eLearning 24-7

LCMS (Rip, albeit a few are back, like zombies). When you check out a learning system and they are discussing the content, you may see (and I see it quite a bit) being used to refer to an online course. A vendor says “elearning course” ignoring that it really has a hyphen between the e and the l. Authoring tools.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

CBT Prior to online learning known then as WBT, and then the latter term of e-learning (vendors today, use it to refer to content that is online), there was CBT. You could say for everyone learner or just a group of learners, you could do this for every publisher that the vendor offered. WBT (Web-Based Training).

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LMS/LCMS Social Media & Side Notes

eLearning 24-7

If you haven’t been looking at LMS/LCMS solutions lately or if you have, you may be noticing a trend - social media. Of course, many vendors like to pitch it as “Web 2.0″ Discussion boards, where end users could post questions, people could respond and post as well were available as well. CompuServe 1993.