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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. SumTotal – Today? SumTotal called it SumTotal Maestro. It was text, that’s it.

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A Whole New World (of Learning)

CLO Magazine

Attendees talked about their new learning experience platforms and said they would be “shutting off” their LMSs in the next few years. Many now sit behind consumer-like front ends built by companies such as Cornerstone, SumTotal and Instructure. I was at an industry meeting recently with about 50 different companies.

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Skillsoft – An Analyst Perspective

eLearning 24-7

A vendor who made not only poor business decisions with the likes of Percipio, but also with the monumental blunder of acquiring SumTotal. . The buy was a bad relationship in the making, one where the owner – “Skillsoft” and ownee “SumTotal” never seemed to get on track with one another. That’s it.

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B2B Top Five LMSs

eLearning 24-7

Resellers who are part of your business learning network – maybe you provide them courses on how to sell your product. Talk to anyone who has a multi-tenant (multi-portal) platform and immediately they will pitch that they are ideal for any markets including the B2B. 5 – SumTotal Learn. Then you better have.

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Q&A from Blog Readers on E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

Q : I am curious on why Cornerstone On Demand, Saba and SumTotal do not appear in your top twenty lists even though they appear on other sites as the best products in the market. There is no doubt that they are popular platforms – but as noted above – popularity doesn’t mean best. Am I missing something?

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#10 to #1 LMSs of 2012

eLearning 24-7

Features include: Extended enterprise – multiple children/sub-portals, each skinned/branded and each on a separate server – many EEs are on a shared server. Their product is more geared towards a human capital management system, especially with the BizX Suite. What can you say, this is a phenomenal product.

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Top 10 LMSs for 2013

eLearning 24-7

I mean besides making additional money, I would never want to have their name on the platform. On the home page the product is able to recommend courses based on what courses have been started and completed – per user. Platforms for higher education and K-12. A video learning platform hits the rankings. 2 Panopto.