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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

We did Online Learning in the 60’s – False Narrative There were systems back in the day, where they could be run on your own server, used via a CD-ROM, via WAN or LAN, but to me, that isn’t and e-learning LMS. Other options were universities who went online, via Lotus Notes. It was text, that’s it.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

The courses sit on the LMS server, thus in a sense your LMS and not on the 3rd party course provider’s servers. So, if 10 pals take Lotus 1-2-3, you are in luck, it probably is still available for you. Nowadays, 3rd party content providers want their content on their own servers and not the LMS server(s).

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Skills WANTED

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Sure you can watch a video on Salesforce CRM or Lotus 1-2-3, but people learn best when the content is interactive and mimics the product. I know of a well-known content provider who still has content from the early 2000’s sitting on their servers (along with more recent content). Bottom Line. Don’t just think about today.

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Linkedin Learning Mini Review

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Lynda.com content/courses are housed on Linkedin Learning servers, not on Lynda.com (I’ll get to this in a second). On a server most likely, yours or wherever you house your courses. You buy the Lynda.com content/courses (entire library) and the learning platform is tossed in at no additional charge. . Where do they sit?

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Out with the old LMS in with the new: Part I

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If you have proprietary courses already in place in your LMS, those need to move over to your new one – the easiest way to do this – is hopefully before you uploaded it into your LMS, you have the exact copy someone on your servers or desktop or drive. Any materials – guides, reference, media files, etc.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

eLearning Trends Enterprise 2.0 eLearning Trends Enterprise 2.0

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Both sides now

Jay Cross

And not surprisingly, vendors are encouraging the trend–Microsoft and IBM have added wikis and blogging capabilities to enterprise apps including SharePoint and Lotus Quickr, while Google and upstarts like Socialtext, PBwiki, and Jive Software are luring corporate users with freebie accounts and dead-simple deployment.

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