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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

Make sure your team is buying an LMS for the year you’re in. Apart from a two-year stint selling tropical fish at a local pet shop when I was 16, my entire career has been in learning technology. As an analyst a decade later, I wrote industry reports about learning management systems, authoring tools, and other technologies.

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Buying a Learning System – Dread

eLearning 24-7

It’s not a typical word that comes up when you decide to purchase whatever type of learning system, whether it is an LMS, LXP, Learning Platform, Talent Development Platform, Employee Dev Platform (a tiny market, but it exists), or whatever a vendor spins their learning system as. Yet it is there.

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The potential pitfalls of a custom LMS solution

LearnUpon

It is nearly 13 years since I started working in the LMS space. That time has been split between working on customized LMS implementations (about 8 years) and cloud-based LMS solutions during my time with LearnUpon. Reasons to choose a custom LMS. Pitfalls of a custom LMS solution. Implementation timeframe.

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Break it down! (No it’s not Hammer Time! Yet)

eLearning 24-7

Learning Management Systems. Mobile learning platforms. Social learning platforms. Do I need an authoring tool if I have a LMS? If you want to track in a learning management system or learning platform that supports SCORM then you want it. Authoring Tools. Web conferencing.

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Digital Learning Platforms In, LXP out

eLearning 24-7

If after a few years, nobody can recall your name, or remember your name or even associate your name with the type of product you are, then you need to change your name. It is not uncommon to hear in the southern part of the United States, someone asking for a “Coke” when the server says do you want something to drink.

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2015 LMS Rakings for K-12, HE and Report Criteria

eLearning 24-7

LMS Report Criteria. The report is based on my internal directory count of 640 LMSs, learning platforms, learning systems or whatever else they pitch themselves as, vendors around the globe. BTW, assigning a project manager to a client, should be free. Why isn’t A or B in this? If yes, point city.

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Halloween Edition – Tricks and Treats

eLearning 24-7

Audience Type – Employees, B2B (Customer training/education, association, etc.), Number of users – The minimum number of end-users the system will accept and the maximum number (if it is 100,000+ this means the system can handle over 100,000 learners, so if you have a million users, yeah this system can handle that size).