Challenge to Learn

MAY 24, 2016

You have the risk for a vendor lock in with almost all LMS (Learning Management Systems). That is one reason that you want to be able to switch from vendor, but another one is that the tool is just not good enough, doesn’t meet your requirements anymore or the service is really bad. That makes you already less dependent.

Authoring Tools 177

Authoring Tools Expert LMS Saba 177

Challenge to Learn

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But what if you don’t have a learning management system or web site? You will find that creating an effective course is very different from creating for example a PowerPoint presentation, but it is not that difficult. Host the course. When you have created the course you must find a place on the web to place.

Easygenerator 146

Easygenerator Authoring Tools Embed Skype 146

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 13, 2011

It doesn’t matter how they learn as long as it is effective and they can do their job. We need to switch more to a demand driven learning environment. We don’t need more Learning management systems, but more Learning management systems.

Learner 167

Learner Social Media Internet Learning Management System 167

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 15, 2016

They should be learning systems but in fact they are management systems, they don’t facilitate the learner and they create vendor lock-in. Our world has changed because the learner has taken control, a learning management system can only survive if the change into a Learning Facilitating System.

Search 169

Search Compliance Training LMS SCORM 169

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 14, 2014

A Learning Management System (LMS) offers tons of functionality. At the same time it sets strict boundaries for learning, often requiring a substantial investment in time and money which is hard to maintain. The LMS is in the Past – The Future is the Cloud.

LMS 164

LMS Web Easygenerator Alternatives 164

Challenge to Learn

DECEMBER 11, 2018

From LMS to LXP The learning buzzword of 2018 is LXP, which is short for learning experience systems. The difference between the two is captured in two words: management versus experience. A learning management system is created as a tool for the L&D department.

Business 150

Business Compliance Training Specialist LMS 150

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This time I did because as a CEO of an authoring tool it is very interesting to keep up to date with the authoring capabilities of Learning Management Systems. I get these kind of request occasionally, but most of the times I will not go into them. And I must say, it did.

Blackboard 140

Blackboard SCORM Learning Management System LMS 140

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

They have a nice option for buyers of a course to run your courses in their own Learning management system. If this is a specific format, make sure that your authoring tool supports that format. Open sesame. Open sesame is a marketplace for eLearning courses.

Authoring Tools 100

Authoring Tools AICC Course Easygenerator 100

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 15, 2016

They should be learning systems but in fact they are management systems, they don’t facilitate the learner and they create vendor lock-in. Our world has changed because the learner has taken control, a learning management system can only survive if the change into a Learning Facilitating System.

Search 120

Search Compliance Training LMS SCORM 120

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 8, 2016

Does this mean that you will end up with a huge collection of separate learning activities? You can create a learning path tying the learning nuggets together in a logical order. There are many Learning Management Systems that will allow you to do that. No, it does not.

Learner 100

Learner Easygenerator Module Quiz 100

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 22, 2012

It will actually focus on learning experiences. Allowing collaboration on courses, include social media; giving us a language to talk to learning management systems, in short it will lift the limitations that Scorm gives us.

SCORM 170

SCORM Leadership Easygenerator ADL 170

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

It allows you create a series of learning activities, allowing you to create bite sized elements, spread them out over time and build in repetition as well. Easygenerator has the ability to create learning path, but a lot of Learning Management Systems will do that as well. Learn from mistakes.

Effectiveness 120

Effectiveness Create eLearning Easygenerator 120

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 19, 2013

As you are searching for your perfect Learning Management System (LMS), you need to have a sense of any problems in your organization to make sure you get the right prescription for an eLearning solution. Here are 7 things to think about before considering an LMS: 1.

LMS 208

LMS Authoring Tools Budget Apple 208

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 26, 2016

Not social learning but social media. The e-Learning industry (the Learning management systems) are still clinging to the outdated SCORM standard. No trend here, just a part of everyday life as far as I’m concerned. This should be a trend, but it isn’t.

Trends 183

Trends Easygenerator xapi Authoring Tools 183

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 30, 2011

Learning content is tagged for context, so it knows what is it about, for whom it is and when to show itself. Learning content is published in all kind of systems: Learning Managements Systems, Knowledge Management Systems, Social networks, internet, intranet and Electronic Performance systems.

Open 140

Open Easygenerator Social Networks Content 140

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

One is SaaS or cloud based solutions, the other is the future of the Learning Management Systems. I try to spot the emerging trends at conferences like this, for this conference there are two. Acceptance for cloud based solutions is definitely growing, almost all the vendors have plans in that direction. TinCan and IACC.

DevLearn 203

DevLearn Conference Easygenerator Learning Objects 203

Challenge to Learn

JUNE 5, 2018

Tools should also be easily and seamlessly integrated into frequently used learning management systems like Blackboard, Moodle, Canva, etc. For example, I would love my students to be able to see each other’s answers to select types of questions or engage in a built-in forum. Advice for edtech tool vendors. One word: money.

Technology 145

Technology Content Instructional Design Association Learning Management System 145

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 26, 2016

Not social learning but social media. The e-Learning industry (the Learning management systems) are still clinging to the outdated SCORM standard. No trend here, just a part of everyday life as far as I’m concerned. This should be a trend, but it isn’t.

Trends 100

Trends Easygenerator xapi Authoring Tools 100

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 21, 2015

SCORM is a standard in e-Learning that makes it possible to track and trace the results of your learners in a Learning Management system (LMS). It makes it possible to create an e-Learning course in any authoring environment and run it in any SCORM compliant LMS and report your learners results to that LMS.

AICC 100

AICC xapi SCORM Track 100

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

But this needs to become much more dynamic and effective, we need to make true adaptive e-Learning. Where an individual learning path will develop itself instead of a predefined path set by an author. The only useful feed back we get is a fail or pass notice from an individual learner.

Blended Learning 139

Blended Learning CD-ROM Easygenerator Authoring Tools 139

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Make sure that your course can report on learning objectives to your LMS. In some adaptive learning management systems you can even create an adaptive curriculum. This is for example possible when you use a course created in easygenerator in a Learning management system like ANewSpring.

Learning Objects 200

Learning Objects Learning Objectives Business Easygenerator 200