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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

Prior to the whole online scene, you could access information via FTP sites known as Archie, Veronica and Jughead (yes, totally true. That’s right, there wasn’t too many providers that had the courses on their servers and sent them via an API. The LCMS Learning Content Management System. I used them).

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LMS/LCMS Social Media & Side Notes

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If you haven’t been looking at LMS/LCMS solutions lately or if you have, you may be noticing a trend - social media. Does your LMS/LCMS vendor offer these? Forums & Message Boards - ( Something Awful – If you visit the site, please be aware that the language and topics varies from G to PG to R and Beyond).

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SAAS LMSs and Vendor Client Lists Questions

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What is SAAS and why is hosted better than having it on your own servers. The bottom line without getting technical or overly detailed, the solution is hosted on your vendor’s servers and not hosted on your internal servers. Benefits versus having it on my servers (behind my firewall). SAAS: Software as a Service.

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Top 10 Posts From 2013

OpenSesame

One of our goals this past year was to ramp up our blogging efforts, creating more quality content that covered industry topics, training news and improvements to the OpenSesame site. You can purchase and launch courses directly on our site, or upload the courses to your learning management system. How to Take Courses on OpenSesame.

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Advantages of WordPress over Moodle

LearnDash

LearnDash is able to take advantage of the elegant simplicity of WordPress and add the tracking and scoring and convert it into a Learning Content Management System (LCMS). Who would use WordPress instead of using a Moodle site? But normally for smaller sites that typically doesn’t work so well on the web. Simplicity is the key.

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Top 10 Posts From 2013

OpenSesame

One of our goals this past year was to ramp up our blogging efforts, creating more quality content that covered industry topics, training news and improvements to the OpenSesame site. You can purchase and launch courses directly on our site, or upload the courses to your learning management system. How to Take Courses on OpenSesame.

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CMS: An Alternative to a LMS for those who seek Portals or Communities

eLearning 24-7

While the race is on for people to get LMSs and LCMSs, there are some people who either do not want or need a LMS/LCMS, but want to create a learning community or more often, some type of portal – intranet or internet. And, with the costs of a LCMS or even some CMSs, you might want to seek out the open source – FREE way.

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