Interoperability with content (how lms and content within talk to one another) early standards were AICC standard now is SCORM (military pushed), This is a collection of standards including AICC . This is important to look for in a system. 87% are compliant, 86% are SCORM 1.2 (look look for this as a minimum) 48% SCORM My notes taken during today's webinar . Presented by Tom Werner & Richard Nantel What do they do? Automate the administration of training. What do they contain? Databases: learners, course offerings, content, progress. Quick History: 1980 - paper age catalog, approvals , registrations , class info (all manually) attendance, evaluations, tests (all manually) count, charge-backs, reporting (all manually) process is dependent on people (admin staff) trainer dependent (collect and hand

Dokeos Interestingly OSLiving doesn't even list educational establishments as the potential userbase for this LMS. Can't begin to say how cool it is that it integrates with OO Impress in a presentation-to-SCORM content model. The demo site of Dokeos set up by Kineo featured a chat room and even a virtual classroom. I've recently become a fan of Open Source Living , a site that rounds up the best of the many and varied OS apps that are out there. I find it rather more useful day-to-day than the more far-ranging but rather bewildering SourceForge , probably because while

In the past, I've had a few posts around how you can test your courses under an LMS: SCORM Test Test SCORM Courses with an LMS One of the problems cited was the lack of available LMS test environments. The eLearning software I saw was: ATutor Claroline Docebo suite Dokeos DrupalEd Interact Moodle SyndeoCMS It also has a bunch of content management systems, a CRM (SugarCRM) and others ... Recently I've seen two possible approaches that seem quite interesting - although we've not yet tried them (so I would love to get feedback). One is ClassRunner.com