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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

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The other day, I was listening to an audiobook, and the author spoke about ideas. I thought about this, as you can tell, and said to myself, okay, let’s write a post where the e-learning history and thus learning systems, authoring tools, and alike are intertwined with good and bad ideas.

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Home Built or Commercial for your Learning System

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There are two types of learning systems. I’m not talking about an LMS, LXP, combo, TDP, or EXP (drop the name on that), learning platform, or “We are not an LMS, and anyway, they are a dying breed” (I’ve written that is far from true). The sad part is that the buyer has no idea.

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Buying a Learning System – Dread

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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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Confused? Welcome to the Learning System World of 2024

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Online learning – which EdTech refers to as remote learning (I guess remote viewing was unavailable because the CIA tried it during the Cold War). Many “experts, including some analysts,” use learning systems to refer to all learning systems except an LMS. Thus, This makes no sense to me.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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Learning System Relationships – Renew or Break Free

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If you have never experienced what I am about to cover, and you currently have a LMS, LXP, Learning Platform or any other type of learning system, heck even a talent management system with learning as a component, this little ditty will at some point come into play. If you wish to break-up, do it. Go with your gut.

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Enterprise Learning Systems – How I love thee?

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I never gave them one – after I bought my first system. But today, when I represent clients (yes, I take clients looking for a learning system), I always tell them to go the route of the use case. One vendor bases it on total revenue (a horrible idea). I knew exactly what I needed and wanted, what I was looking for. But