Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Of course, I’d recommend skimming through eLearning Learning to find the latest and greatest. Applications in Learning - eLearning Technology , March 3, 2008 Have LMSs Jumped The Shark?

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Open Source eLearning Tools Open Authoring Tools 255

Tony Karrer

APRIL 18, 2008

I just pulled a report as part of an LMS Evaluation and saw an interesting pattern: The pattern shows that the larger the audience the lower the satisfaction scores. My guess is that Learning Management Systems that target enterprise solutions and larger audiences will come out lower in LMS Satisfaction surveys.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

I received an inquiry about the need for a low cost LMS solution and I've not had time to help this person with answers. We have roughly 500 learners and would use the LMS for mainly tracking and registration of ILT courses, communication (possibly through message boards), and posting of class materials.

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Low Cost LMS IntraLearn Cost 103

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

You can put the audio or video inside a SCORM course and load it into an LMS. Given the small audience and limited scope, likely a Rapid Learning Management System would make a lot of sense if that was the direction. They are not used to connecting via an LMS. This is a change to What Goes in the LMS?

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Track Podcasts Podcaster Podcasting 115

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Just to close the loop on my series of posts that I created as part of preparing my presentation: LMS Team Size and Time LMS RFP LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers Thanks again for the input.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 25, 2007

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.

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RFP Association Learning Management System LMS Virtual Classroom 104

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 18, 2007

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).

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 13, 2011

And it would be nice if it was a Rapid LMS. I'm a little concerned how well LMS solutions will handle the webinar integration and the subscriptions. Here are some resources that I found that may help: LMS eCommerce Solution Product Review: Litmos LMS LMS For SMBs And Training Companies – A Year On, Is It Still The Same?

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Low Cost IntraLearn Hosting Cornerstone OnDemand 122

Tony Karrer

MARCH 10, 2011

The needs are very similar to those in Rapid LMS and LMS Solution for Simple Partner Compliance Training. Related posts: LMS Selection Process Low Cost LMS eLearning Technology. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs.

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Solution LMS Compliance Training Low Cost 105

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Steve Wexler from the eLearningGuild's research group just helped me get into some interesting data around Team Size and Time during an Learning Management System Selection and Implementation process. So, this post will end off the series of posts I was doing on LMS Selection as a precursor to my DevLearn presentation.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 23, 2007

As I discussed in my post LMS Selection Process , I'm preparing for my part of an upcoming session at DevLearn on LMS Selection as part of The Learning Management Systems Symposium. In my previous post I presented my high-level LMS Selection Process. Thanks to everyone who has already contributed.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

I saw a post by Bryan Chapman discussing how long it takes to select an LMS. And he and I do a lot of LMS selection and implementation work. I put out some of that data in my post - LMS Team Size and Time - Wow 23 Months! Learning Strategy Defined? This is a common LMS Selection Gotcha. Where does this come from?

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2010

They have a licensed LMS, but want to move away from it and build a custom LMS that meets their specific needs. Is it a good idea to start with an open source LMS ? Are there any open source LMS on those technologies? Does it make that much sense to build a custom LMS anymore? Their questions: 1.

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Custom LMS Compliance Training Open Source 102

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

With that caveat - You can find the beginning of the conversation and my list of Learning Management Systems (LMS) Gotchas. In response Tracy just posted - LMS - I don't want to be Little Miss Should've. In fact, what seems like it should be really simple to do can sometimes be hard in an LMS.

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Conversation LMS Learning Management System Track 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 13, 2008

I was just asked by someone about how they could test a course they were creating against a particular Learning Management System (LMS) (in this case Docent 6.5). We don't have direct access to a version of the LMS to test on. The client's staff won't give us direct access to the LMS to run tests.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2006

I had seen this paper ( Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems ) before, but Jay Cross's take on the implications of the paper in LMS, we hardly knew ye is interesting: LMS create a walled garden in an era when walls are falling down. Does a Learner WANT an LMS?

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 7, 2006

LearningCircuits published their 2006 Survey of Learning Management Systems and one of the more interesting quotes says something about the answer to my prior question Do You WANT an LMS? Does a Learner WANT an LMS? percent to 14.6

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LMS Learning Management System Survey Report 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 26, 2006

My last post, Direction of eLearning - Emergence or Big System , received a couple of interesting comments and I wanted to add a couple of follow-up thoughts. What often happens when systems become very complex is that they begin to get replaced by simpler systems. But that's not really what's going to replace the LMS.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

I’ll have more coming on this topic, but today someone asked me how to approach is going through an LMS selection because the general feeling was that the existing LMS was too hard for users to use. They currently use Moodle as an LMS with some customizations. Does a Learner WANT an LMS?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I'm about to present at the LMS session at DevLearn. I wanted to capture this to be able to come back and talk about a few of these items later: What are the benefits, ROI, outcomes to be expected from LMS implementation? What are the challenges and pitfalls of integrating with multiple learning sources? Make or buy?

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Recently I posted on Learning Materials asking the question - What Goes in the LMS? Should go in the LMS - Only finished content. Learning paths: some competencies require that content is presented in a specific order, an order that could be hardly reproduced in informal learning by learners without direct guidance.

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Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS Score 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 25, 2007

Continuing on from my earlier posts: LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process Great suggestions from everyone. Topic #1 - LMS Dissatisfaction - Don't Do It! Over stating how much LMS you need and/or missing the opportunity for a Starter LMS. Underestimating people required to operate an LMS.

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RFP eLearningGuild LMS Brandon Hall 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 11, 2007

Some interesting thinking going on by Lee Kraus and Mark Oehlert around where the LMS is going to need to go if we really are going to allow for small content chunks that can be quickly accessed. I personally think that the LMS is quickly being relegated to longer, developmental activities and compliance activities.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 6, 2007

Mzinga is a merger of KnowledgePlanet (an LMS provider and also the maker of the eLearning simulation tool - Firefly) and Shared Insights - a community / business social networking software company. It makes me wonder what this says about the LMS and tools market. It sounds a lot like an LMS with integrated communities.

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Social Networks Social Network KnowledgePlanet Mzinga 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank eLearning Portal Integration Data Driven Notable Topics for 2009 Work Skills and Knowledge Work Work Skills Keeping Up?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Sitting in a fun presentation by Kevin Oakes at DevLearn on the Rise and Fall of the LMS. Part of the rationale for this argument is that the LMS market is not ever going to be "huge" - meaning the market leaders are $100M companies and they likely can't grow much beyond that. So, how can you get big? You go broader. His bottom line.

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KnowledgePlanet GeoLearning Learn.com Plateau 105

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Thus roughly: Video Segment -> Questions -> Video Segment -> Questions -> Exam They do not have an LMS, but they need some kind of reporting. They would also be happy with having some kind of system to collect all the results together into something similar to a spreadsheet. They are happy to continue to do that.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 7, 2008

type tools in Learning Management Systems against the philosophy that corporate and commercial is evil of the edupunkers. The questions she raises are: Is the edupunk ideology saying that the use of social media in commercial learning management systems is an assault on the very philosophy of learning 2.0?

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 31, 2011

I'm hoping that readers can weigh in on both aspects: (1) specific thoughts or suggestions on LMS products that might fit and (2) how do you get answers to questions like this? The LMS offers courses with both nursing and HCS-D credits. Typical Gap Found The biggest gap is in the number of credits most LMS products allow on a course.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Well I just ran across a good post: Questions You Should Be Asking Of Your Potential LMS Vendors, But Likely Are Not. You know how I was saying Product Vendor Blogs - Where are They? It appears to be by Justyn Howard - Business Development at Learn.com.

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vendor Learn.com LMS Issue 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 3, 2007

Here's the question: I am the Manager of Education and Training in a non-profit that serves homeless youth and whose mission is to get the kids off the streets by offering services which include getting their GED. Our need is also to make the learning process fun!

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Tony Karrer

MAY 10, 2006

But, I was dismayed to read: Many learning organizations have already implemented an LMS, so there is an opportunity to enhance this infrastructure, making it part of a deliberate strategy to take advantage of the more ubiquitous workplace technologies.

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Association LMS Association Learning Management System Informal Wiki 100

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 30, 2007

The concept of Learning Management System (LMS) was wrongly named. Better fit for a name would be Teaching Management System or Institution Control System. Same is true in the corporate eLearning space ( LMS Dissatisfaction on the Rise & Do You WANT an LMS? Quite true.

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Wiki PLE LMS eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 31, 2006

Relevant to the recent discussions around Do You WANT an LMS? Does a Learner WANT an LMS? and the possibility that we could soon be seeing something that looks more like a Wiki+Tracking capability, I just saw the news: Vignette Provides Online, On-Demand Training For Customers. They've added tracking and SCORM to their CMS solution.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 20, 2009

While there are a lot of different Learning Management Systems with very different features, the requirements in this situation are a bit different. So here are some of the requirements I see for this customer that are a bit different from what you would find in a normal corporate LMS RFP. It's hosted. It's easy to use.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

The PDF research reports include the following, but I believe that you also get access to some of the slightly older reports such as Informal Learning, Future Directions, Extended Enterprise, etc. Immersive Learning Simulations Learning Management Systems Synchronous Learning Systems Mobile Learning Measurement.

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eLearning Guild Research Report Flash Quiz 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Not – Pictorally Social Networking in Education Informal learning - what is it? LMS RFP The Nature of Online Collaboration Connectivism and the modern learner Nursing Simulation in Second Life eLearning Course or Online Demo - which is better?

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Social Networks Blended Learning Authoring Tools PLE 139