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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

Most of it came, via 3rd party providers, or what we referred to as “boutique shops” – think custom development (fee-based) that someone, company, government, institution, and so forth hired to create a course or courses. ISP (Internet Service Providers) fees were high. Oh, and access wasn’t free.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

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For example, Growth Engineering was a trailblazer as it relates to gamification and utilizing it within their entire platform. Learn.com – First a content aggregator, then jumped into the LMS market, acquired by Taleo, who promised to invest heavily. They do the entire Talent Development Platform features and reqs to a T.

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LMS Low-Cost Webinars Hosted eCommerce Subscriptions

Tony Karrer

I was talking with a startup that has an existing audience and now want to provide a monthly subscription for access to training to this audience. They will only convert a portion of the audience to the new service. The learners will get access to webinars, recorded webinars, videos, and other online content that they will author separately.

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The Augmented LMS: New Life for Talent Management Learning?

Talented Learning

Old-school LMS companies (like SumTotal , Plateau , Learn.com , GeoLearning and Certpoint ) were acquired by much larger talent and HR-suite providers like SAP/SuccessFactors , Infor , Oracle and IBM. While talent management providers were content to rest on their laurels and ignore their LMS roadmap, cloud-based LMS vendors were born.

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Learning Systems for 2018 (#25 to #16)

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page – Top 50 Learning Systems for 2018 , whereas I provide some high level analysis, including a couple of cons or weaknesses in each product (if applicable). . The more robust data will appear in my Find an LMS platform which due to adding more functionality will launch in Q2 of this year. Again, this is a global list. .

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Latest Negative E-Learning Trends

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What makes this a horrific trend is that these folks are selling learning platforms or solutions to consumers, who are unaware that these people have zero experience. SaaS authoring tool vendors continue to include analytical data as an option in their platform. Otherwise, they will follow the route of Learn.com.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

You can find free content all over the internet and you can purchase 3rd party content from a content provider. In addition to adding content, they are now expanding into additional platforms, authoring tools and so forth, but this is about content, so I’ll stay on the path. 3rd party content providers are not new.

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