Continuing on from my earlier posts: LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process From several comments and from looking at my list of issues, I realize that writing a good LMS RFP is challenging and it's easy to make lots of mistakes. LMS RFP Resources John Theis wrote a dissertation on the contents of 25 RFPs submitted to an LMS vendor. Again - I would really welcome: Links to good templates or example RFPs. Suggestions on what else should go in here.

Well, recently a clear and provocative pattern has emerged regarding the intersection of Microsoft SharePoint and the Learning Management System (LMS). Do any existing LMS providers integrate with SharePoint - such that my learners can take care of all of their learning transactional needs (e.g., in SharePoint without having to enter the LMS environment? As an analyst, I am often approached for advice by companies - both practitioner and provider. These interactions are not simply one-way dumps of knowledge.

2007 - I've created a series of posts around Learning Management System (LMS) Selection: LMS Selection Presentation LMS Team Size and Time Learning Management System RFP LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process I thought I had previously wrote about this, but I realized when I was posting Learning Management Systems (LMS) Gotchas that I'd not previously talked about the results from participating in the eLearningGuild's Learning Management System research report .

As a follow on to the discussion of social learning and formal learning in Long Live … great post by BJ Schone - Have LMSs Jumped The Shark? I constantly hear people (across many organizations) complain about their learning management system (LMS). They complain that their LMS has a terrible interface that is nearly unusable. Upgrades are difficult and cumbersome. Their employees’ data is locked in to a proprietary system.

I'm preparing for my part of an upcoming session at DevLearn on LMS selection as part of The Learning Management Systems Symposium . Especially what am I missing, what will be useful for an audience of corporate learning folks who are contemplating LMS selection, what won't be useful (and I should delete). So, first, what am I talking about: How to Conduct a Successful Learning Management Systems (LMS) Selection Process LMS Selection I'm going to prepare for this in a slightly different way. I'm going to create notes in my blog as a series of posts as I

Selecting an LMS is a challenging task and that’s just because it takes care of an important business function and needs to work well. The web today holds a great deal of information on how to select an LMS, LMS Selection tools, directories of leading LMS systems, sample RFIs, and a whole lot of other very useful and handy information. However it is equally important for the decision makers to know what NOT to do while (before More so, the don’ts leave a deeper impression! It is not an IT system purchase.

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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. But still it's a great way to show people the basics of what an LMS does. 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 a Moodle installation that allows teachers to get up and going cheaply.

On Creating Passionate Users they had a great picture that captures how many of us feel about LMS products: As the number of features increases our satisfaction level begins to go down because of the complexity of getting it to work for us. It forces the CMS products to seek ever higher features to continue to differentiate - a vicious cycle. I believe we are poised to see this happen in the world of the Learning Management Systems (LMS). I should be working on content for my presentations at DevLearn in October that look at what's next in eLearning. (As As a side

I had previously written about Low Cost LMS and Rapid Learning Management Systems , but I receive an inquiry from someone who had a very constrained budget and wanted to build an eLearning Portal . Some details of what they want / need: The portal we need to develop should be able to handle online registration, producing letters of offer, payment gateway, producing letters of acceptance, producing student cards, downloading syllabi, downloading study guides, processing purchasing orders that trigger the distribution of the textbooks by the Publishers’ office to students, communication