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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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Extending your learning network: What you need to know

Rustici Software

Associations that provide training programs to members. How will users access your courseware? Rather than sharing course files with each system separately, a distributed model allows you to centrally manage the courseware and provide access to your extended network via proxy files that point back to your course.

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10 VILT Software

Ed App

Zoom is great but somewhat limited as you can’t build and regulate courseware through it. It would be amazing if it also had more LCMS features so trainers wouldn’t have to get additional software to create and manage their courses. Price: Free-USD $240/year/license. VILT Software #5 – Google Meet. VILT Software #7 – Webex.

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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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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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Benefits of Having a 3rd Party Authoring Tool

Inquisiq

We are going to provide some “food for thought” on why having an Authoring Tool outside of your LMS could be the smartest thing you do for your present and long range eLearning success. #1: The best LCMS for you may not contain the best Authoring Tool and vice versa. Now we dive into the WHY. 2: What’s Yours Should Stay YOURS.

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Top 10 LMSs for 2017, Part 1 (10-6)

eLearning 24-7

For example, maybe you want vendors who are strong with their learning environment, have mobile PLUS you have 1,000 learners and are seeking someone in the range of $30,000 – as a result a list of the top three or four vendors will be provided to you, with their profiles, and of course in ranking order (from the Top 50). .