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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Someone came up with the idea of an LCMS (RIP) Community of Practice (yuck, first it went the way of the dodo bird, then has made a comeback – just like the dodo bird – which is being re-created genetically). At the time, PL was a dominant player in the industry, with lots of loyal (aka recurring revenue) customers.

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Top 50 Learning Systems for 2019 (50 to 30)

eLearning 24-7

They have always been on my radar and each year, I just see them as a solid player worthy of a ranking. Supports PENS, a standard I wish all vendors did – but very few do, and of course, SCORM. #37 37 eXact LCMS – Repeat winner and the best LCMS on the market. eXact LCMS (2018, 2017, 2016). TILE (2018).

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Web-Based Authoring Tools for Scalable eLearning Development: The Time Has Come

Web Courseworks

A white paper on the Composica website titled “ The Goldilocks Dilemma of Authoring ” provides a convincing argument for why firms should invest in a collaborative authoring tool over competing individual authoring tools and learning content management system (LCMS) solutions. PENS. · Publish to Word document and edit Word output.

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On Fire in 2013 – What’s going to be hot in e-learning

eLearning 24-7

Just as you can with PENS authoring tools and the systems that support PENS (i.e Whether it is a mobile learning platform, authoring tool or a LMS/LCMS – TinCan will be huge. I expect this to heat up in 2013 as more players enter the market beyond the better known publishers. with TinCan). E-Learning in General.

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State of the Authoring Tool Industry 2015

eLearning 24-7

If you are wondering if the “publish once to all” means the vendor is using PENS, the answer is no, they are not using PENS. . However, I think every SaaS authoring tool vendor should use PENS. . Claro by dominKnow – Strong player, who IMO got sidetracked for a bit. . First AT vendor to use PENS.

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The E-Learning Foundations Intensive: Day 1

NuggetHead

talking about “Infrastructure 101: Getting Started with eLearning LMS/LCMS Technology.” Brent’s response was showing a slide with a quote from 1907 where “they” said the pencil will never replace pen and ink either! After lunch, we jumped right back into two breakout sessions with Steve Foreman with InfoMedia Designs, Inc.

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E-Learning News and Notes

eLearning 24-7

Most tend to be proprietary, but I have seen a few that are SCORM/AICC and yes even PENS. One system offers the ability to do so – but prefers that people use just their product rather then pushing it via PENS to a LMS or downloading the course in a SCORM wrapper, then uploading it into a SCORM LMS). Past Shows.