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History of the LMS

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Most of it came, via 3rd party providers, or what we referred to as “boutique shops” – think custom development (fee-based) that someone, company, government, institution, and so forth hired to create a course or courses. ISP (Internet Service Providers) fees were high. It was text, that’s it.

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Pricing for Up and Coming LMS Providers

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I know what you are thinking, those providers he mentioned must be expensive, but guess what.they aren’t. Pricing – as provided to me by the vendors (as of 3-30-2010). To host on their servers $400 per month for hosting. Absorb Anywhere : Hosted on their servers. All pricing is in USD. Branding is included.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

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You can find free content all over the internet and you can purchase 3rd party content from a content provider. 3rd party content providers are not new. Heck, even before we had online learning, and courses were CBT (Computer Based Training), you could find 3rd party course providers. . Who remembers NetG?

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SCORM, AICC, xAPI – Which one do I need?

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AICC’s approach allows for the content to live on one server (or website, if you will) and the learning system to be on a completely different system. With SCORM, the technology approach has the content (courses) uploaded to the learning system and live on the same server.

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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

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It also due to service providers who can customize Moodle, for a fee. . Moodle leverages service providers, these are vendors who will customize Moodle for you, for a fee, or offer their version of Moodle, already tweaked, upgraded, etc. You need to find a 3rd party provider who does it, and can integrate with your system.

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Home Built or Commercial for your Learning System

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I assume it is SaaS, and not a bunch of servers at your location, which causes another big NONONO. Some other servers farm. Scale Up Okay, before bouncing into scaling, I should ask, where is that in-house system being housed? Do you house on AWS? There are fees for that). Google Cloud? Microsoft Azure?

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2020 – The Year of the Hub

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In each case, push and pull exists, because even if it is content from a 3rd party provider, which in the Hub it is, the content is sitting on the content provider’s server, and not directly within your learning system. 3rd party content providers include Open Sesame, LinkedIn Learning and Skillsoft to name a few. .