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Break it down! (No it’s not Hammer Time! Yet)

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Web conferencing. If your goal is just to post the course on a server and let people access it, just for the sake of learning and you don’t care about tracking of any sort – then no, you do not need any compliance standard. Why would I want a SaaS solution over hosted on my own servers product? Authoring Tools.

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LMS Do and Don’ts – Isn’t it time to do what’s right?

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To find out if a vendor is in the top 50 LMS rankings (either from 2014 or this year 2015), look for the award icon on their web site. You have to look at the whole entity and not just the skin they initially show you – via the demo or on their web site or even in their sandbox. Meet my friend, the RFP. DON’T.

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Digital Learning Platforms In, LXP out

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LXPs have this problem. It is not uncommon to hear in the southern part of the United States, someone asking for a “Coke” when the server says do you want something to drink. It is no wonder, LXP vendors are receiving LMS RFPs and LMS vendors are receiving LXP RFPs. Actually, it isn’t an old story.

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Forecasts for 2020

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If a vendor tells you they are not in the content business, I can only assume they must be in the web server business, because without content, that is all you have – a web server. Curtailing the accept every RFP that comes to them. This is a huge problem in the industry. And what is a mall?

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Halloween Edition – Tricks and Treats

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The new UI is in full view, from a “Contact Us” to a web site link, to a description of the system, course standards readily visible and features. Deployment type – SaaS, Client-Hosted; if SaaS this means in the cloud, if Client-Hosted it means the system can sit behind your firewall on your servers. Articles include.

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LMS Ghost stories – The truth will scare you

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Any vendor who sees you as a potential customer, should go to your web site and grab the banner/header or colors and place it in your demo before you begin. I have always stated that before any call, at a minimum look at the vendor’s web site, go through the page(s) and see what you can extract.

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K-12 and LMSs are Broken, Who’s to Blame?

eLearning 24-7

The problem though is that there is a crisis going on in the K-12 sector and it is tied in part to e-learning (with wins and losses) and LMS vendors who serve that sector. Uptime – Most systems today who are in the cloud use server farms such as Rackspace and Amazon S3 – thus that “uptime” is tied to those servers.

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