Harm told me about his team’s experience with informal learning in an engagement with Sara Lee. But I had doubts if a LMS would be the proper solution for Sara Lee. Having a closer look, I concluded that the list of activities could be divided into more formal and more informal learning activities. Informal: - Experiences on the job. Given their relative importance, this means that 77% of the activities can be labelled as highly informal and 23% as highly formal. Tags: Informal Learning Here’s an extract of an email Harm sent me. Networking. MORE >>

Wikipedia  defines a learning management system ( LMS ) as: “A software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, and reporting of training programs, classroom and online events, e-learning programs, and training content.”. An LMS is a branded, secure extension of your organization’s training/education effort to deliver content and materials in an easy, professional, managed and accessible manner – for users and administrators. . Here is a good video discussing LMS pricing. It is important that an LMS is compatible with eLearning content. MORE >>

The LMS market is heating up by the day for past many months now and it looks like it is going, more or less, as predicted by Bersin & Associates about 6 months back – The LMS market: hotter than ever. have seen a significant increase in attention towards LMS both in terms of technology and also in terms of the end value being delivered by it to an organization, its end users (learners, instructors, and administrators). list below a list of top 13 blogs (in alphabetical order) that we follow for LMS (and learning technology): ALearning. eLearning Technology. MORE >>

ve recently been reading more reports that question the traditional standalone LMS platform, and it’s gotten me thinking. How many in today’s business environment really understand the differences between their old traditional learning management system (LMS) and the newest social LMS platforms ? First, the traditional LMS model is a monolithic structure that acts as a giant repository of information being pushed out to the learner. Second, traditional LMS platforms are somewhat generic, and don’t take into account an organization’s unique learning needs. MORE >>

The LMS has been a hot discussion topic for some time now. There have been posts discussing its survival and a few posts before that discussing its future – Jane Hart posted what is the future of the lms reviewing useful of LMS, followed up by a similar post by Harold Jarche suggesting LMS is no longer the centre of the universe. Clark Quinn brought in a little balance by highlighting what the LMS could be used for and to what extent in his post – a case for the LMS. Here is a very quick SWOT analysis of the LMS: Strengths. Weaknesses. Threats. MORE >>