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50 Best eLearning Posts Of 2012

Upside Learning

We have compiled the 50 best eLearning posts of 2012 from our blog. 10 Effective LMS RFP Guidelines. Tin Can: My First Impressions From mLearnCon 2012. We hope you have had a good start to 2013. We are going to make it even better! It’s a chance for you to catch up on some interesting stuff you might have missed the last year.

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What Buying a Bicycle Would Look Like if We Applied a Typical LMS Selection Strategy

Absorb LMS

A Good RFP The best RFPs consist of a list of required features, typically in a spreadsheet, and an easy way for the vendor to mark `Yes’ or ‘No’ next to each requirement to identify which features are present or absent in their product. The organization issuing the RFP will suffer since very few software vendors will submit proposals.

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Top 5 Reasons You Will Leave your LMS – and How to Switch Successfully

Association eLearning

There was quite a bit of focus at the 2012 Learning Solutions Conference in Orlando on Learning Management Systems (LMS) and how dissatisfied many users are. The “Dirty Little Secret” About RFPs. Often, organizations choose a vendor by sending out a Request for Proposal (RFP). Not user-friendly. Lacks technical support.

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Cal State Online Plays Small Ball

Allison Rossett

Other than an extensive RFP process which will invite experienced providers into some aspects of the mix, few details are provided. Cal State Online , which took years to conceive, is now scheduled to pilot in the Fall semester, 2012, and then to launch in Spring, 2013. Does such a list exist? A long slog.

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

eLearning 24-7

Actually, I do blame: Vendors who still post RFP templates on their site – which by the way tend to be geared towards themselves. Organizations who recommend the value of RFPs and either have a link to an RFP template or how to do a RFP. RFP reality – And no, Jeff Probst is not your host. Ask questions.

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LMS Selection Roulette: Who Can You Trust?

Talented Learning

You purchased your LMS before 2012 (probably for reasons no one remembers). When and how to use an RFP (or not). Rather than taking their chances on a solution designed to improve engagement and business results, they remain tied financially and contractually to their historical learning infrastructure. Are You Stuck With Your LMS?

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When your LMS BFF is no longer

eLearning 24-7

If you are a vendor you are likely to see it too often and it appears when the “potential customer” sends you a RFP without ever talking to you prior to. . Or they send the RFP after a discussion, but before seeing the product. Nowadays it is easy to just send off that RFP without doing any due diligence.

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