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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

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. Could someone create a course at said company? Wanted people to buy your courses you created?

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OpenSesame Staffs Up: New Hires Bring Experience and Build Community

OpenSesame

Our new team members have years of experience creating custom solutions for diverse companies, and we’re eager to introduce them to you. Pete brings his award-winning track record in human capital consulting with industry leaders like GeoLearning, Click2Learn, Dale Carnegie Training and DDI to OpenSesame’s growing elearning marketplace.

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The Augmented LMS: New Life for Talent Management Learning?

Talented Learning

Four years ago, very few consultants had sufficient knowledge or desire to match potential buyers with specialized “ extended enterprise learning ” systems. Essentially, APIs (application programming interfaces) make it possible to create a custom ecosystem by easily linking together discrete software elements. How does it all work?

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Q&A from Blog Readers on E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

Every e-learning consulting/research firm, etc. On the Maestro side (formally GeoLearning), I don’t understand how they could have dropped the ball on the platform. Am I missing something? A: Great question. If this was a popularity contest, then sure they deserve it. Thankfully, it isn’t.

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LMSs that kick ass: Mzinga

Janet Clarey

Mzinga also makes social media via a Community Model, in which users can create social profiles, blogs, and discussions—independent of learning resources—in two ways: through the LMS and through a separate Community solution. All the technology and consulting in the world can’t force these cultural requirements into existence.

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LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers

Tony Karrer

Barriers Importance of Features Some notes on Barriers and Feature Importance: Good news for me - problem with 3rd party consultant scores low as a barrier. :) A lot of the other factors are pretty significant barriers, e.g., cost, customization, flexibility. GeoLearning 6 6.27 GeoConnect GeoLearning 1 3.90 Update, Nov.

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