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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

To understand the history of the LMS, there are five items that drove it. 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. The LMS The player for online learning and WBT? So, no 640 there.

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Education learning management system trends

eLearning 24-7

Many in the education market are still in love with open source systems, such as Moodle. However, they often do not realize – until it is too late, that “free” isn’t really free because customization has to constantly exist, support, among other things. Online Learning vs. ILT. With that comes trends.

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LMS RFP

Tony Karrer

Continuing on from my earlier posts: LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process From several comments and from looking at my list of issues, I realize that writing a good LMS RFP is challenging and it's easy to make lots of mistakes.

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What’s hurting the LMS market

eLearning 24-7

The LMS market is strong. But for all that is positive, there are negatives, and these negatives can hinder long term growth for commercial systems. Customer support. Tech Support. I’m sorry, if I am spending thousands of dollars on a system, I expect customer service – at least the first year to be free. .

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Best of the Best – Extended Enterprise or multi-tenant LMSs

eLearning 24-7

In some cases it will be noted if it is based on a higher set of users, since there are platforms that prefer a minimum or focus on larger size businesses including associations, etc. You can find a lot of LMS companies who provide different information on the size of business. Literally a one stop shop of a system. Tin Can API.

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E-Learning Takeaways

eLearning 24-7

For the rest of us, it isn’t, unless you see the latest takeaways as examples of what is to come or more importantly what hasn’t – which is really a could be doomsday to many vendors – unless they wake up! In my newest directory, I have 138 vendors. 37 support m-learning. Authoring Tools.

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Video, Mobile: E-Learning consumers respond

eLearning 24-7

The E-Learning 24/7 latest survey is all about e-learning and more importantly learning management systems. The survey was 100% independent – it was not tied to any LMS vendor or have any ultra hidden agenda meaning (sorry conspiracy ppl). Ability to video edit in a LMS.

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