WBT Systems

JUNE 26, 2018

Ask around for request for proposal (RFP) samples and send one of them to a dozen LMS vendors? You know the answer already if you read last week’s post : an LMS RFP is not the first step of the selection process, it’s the result of the first step. Narrow down the field before sending out an RFP. What’s in an LMS RFP?

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RFP Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS 41

eLearningMind

MARCH 2, 2023

Back in 2008, realizing the interoperability limitations of existing learning system standards, such as SCORM (the Shareable Content Object Reference Model), Learning Education Training Systems Interoperability (LETSI) reached out to the L&D community for suggestions on how to fix those shortcomings. The result was SCORM 2.0.

xapi 52

xapi Compliance Training Resources SCORM 52

Talented Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Is the LMS RFP a Necessary Evil? A Request for Proposal (RFP) is one of the most widely used yet controversial tools for learning management systems buyers. The LMS RFP has developed a bad reputation because it is easily misunderstood. Clients expect me to help them avoid RFP missteps. What is an LMS RFP?

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RFP Association Learning Management System LMS Association LMS 40

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 11, 2023

Learning tools – now referred to as learning technology. When you check out a learning system and they are discussing the content, you may see (and I see it quite a bit) being used to refer to an online course. A vendor says “elearning course” ignoring that it really has a hyphen between the e and the l.

Learning System 75

Learning System System White Label vendor 75

Degreed

DECEMBER 7, 2023

“A formal bid process starting with a thorough and systematic RFx is one of the best tools you have to validate your hypothesis and get clear on your needs versus wants, goals, and outcomes—and who will be the best vendor partner to help you succeed.” When budgeting, ask vendors for estimated licensing costs. 2: Write your RFx.

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vendor Compliance Training Score RFP 59

Talented Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

However, it’s not the instant slam-dunk that some vendors may want you to believe – especially for extended enterprise learning. To learning systems vendors, it suggests that you want to change the underlying software code. 6) As an LMS selection consultant, do you ensure that vendors deliver what they promise?

Association Learning Management System 92

Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS vendor 92

eLearning 24-7

JULY 6, 2018

There has never been an accurate number of how many learning system vendors actually have a training department, let alone trainers who provide said training, or customer education. Every vendor will state to you, if asked, how great is their support. Not every vendor has bad or average support. You can download it here.

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vendor Learning System Support System 50

Learning Pool

MARCH 16, 2022

Be clear exactly what the costs are. At Fosway, we look at the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a platform over its lifetime. TCO considers much more than the annual licence fees, taking in the full lifecycle cost of acquiring, implementing, and operating the solution. You don’t want to pay for features you don’t need.

Learning System 82

Learning System System Specialist vendor 82

Association eLearning

MARCH 28, 2012

Some attendees mentioned that their current LMS vendor was either out of business or ending a product, but others are just simply unhappy with their current platform. According to a 2010 eLearning Guild survey, only 62% of respondents said their LMS lived up to vendor promises. Vendor Selection. Vendor Selection.

Association Learning Management System 145

Association Learning Management System LMS Association LMS eLearning Guild 145

Talented Learning

JUNE 7, 2016

Some people even think customer dissatisfaction is the reason there are 700 LMS vendors. I’ve spoken with hundreds of vendor references over the past few years and I have found plenty of buyers who say they love their LMS — although I also find many more who are neither thrilled nor dissatisfied. The customer?

LMS 75

LMS vendor RFP License 75

Talented Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Throughout the last month, I’ve reviewed 12 RFP responses for 3 different LMS business scenarios: association learning, commercial training and corporate channel/customer education. In each case, we asked vendors for pricing tailored to the client’s unique usage patterns. Rely upon license model alignment as a vendor qualifier.

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License Association Learning Management System Association LMS Cost 40

ICS Learning

AUGUST 26, 2013

While many larger companies have already transitioned into e-Learning and embrace it as a vital component of their overall training efforts, many mid-size and smaller companies have been waiting on the sidelines observing how the technology, methods, and costs evolve. The other advantage to this approach, beyond cost and quality, is time.

Sexual Harassment Training 100

Sexual Harassment Training Harassment Training Diversity Training Authoring Tools 100

eLearning 24-7

MAY 16, 2023

It wouldn’t surprise me if the majority of vendors who go with Gen-AI (and eventually, they all must, or they will be too far behind), use GPT (by OpenAI). I’m already seeing the sidestep I wrote about just a week ago, in order for vendors to reduce cost (those tokens). Maybe today it is ChatGPT (cheaper token-wise).

Learning System 73

Learning System System Metrics Mentoring 73

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 21, 2023

If they were a vendor who played in EdTech (K-12, HE) but also played into corporate and did so, not just by having clients find them, but actively through marketing, they were considered too. Strictly If the vendor was a custom shop building a system, off say Moodle or whatever code they are using that is open source? Strictly EdTech?

Learning System 69

Learning System System Metrics Compliance Training 69

learnWorlds

MAY 29, 2023

Our Request for Proposal (RFP) checklist narrows down all the key questions you must ask LMS vendors, so you can identify the one that meets your requirements without ending up wasting money on a platform that has too many features you don’t even need or too few that will jeopardize the effectiveness of your program.

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RFP LMS Compliance Training vendor 52

Talented Learning

AUGUST 17, 2017

Often, these posts have 287 or more responses from LMS vendors, each claiming they offer the best solution, given the overwhelming evidence provided in the original 2-sentence help request. They’ve hit a wall with features that don’t accomplish what a vendor promised. LMS vendors have vastly different licensing models.

Trust 63

Trust Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS 63

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 2, 2019

Cost is a key factor, and while authoring tool vendors are jumping into VR with new functionality, the truth of the whole matter is that VR headsets haven’t punched thru the L&D and/or training departments across the globe. . If a vendor declines to provide this information to you, then move on.

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vendor Movie LMS Compliance Training 82

Talented Learning

APRIL 18, 2017

To find the best learning technology fit , we must sort through various learning platform types, license models , functionality, integration capacity , implementation services (or lack of) and overall costs. 2) Vendor Identification. 5) Vendor Qualification. 6) Request for Proposal (RFP). 9) Reference Gathering.

Association Learning Management System 80

Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS vendor 80

Talented Learning

JANUARY 9, 2018

Among the more than 700 vendors participating in today’s LMS marketplace, we continue to see a wave of learning solutions designed to solve “niche” business challenges. We’ve analyzed results from LMS vendors who publish outcomes of their customers’ extended enterprise learning initiatives.

Learning System 104

Learning System Trends System Compliance Training 104

Talented Learning

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the last two weeks as an LMS selection consultant, I have been on the receiving end of 24 hours of live LMS demos from eight different vendors. The vendors were competing for two unique, extended enterprise LMS opportunities. Selling LMSs is very tough in 2016 because of the plenitude and parity of vendor options.

Association LMS 75

Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS vendor 75

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

No surprise that some vendors are also waiting to see what happens. M-Learning with a native app – slowly trucking along, but I am hearing quite a few vendors who are either in development or getting going in 2014. One vendor is focused only on SaaS products including social media. Again, it is hot, hot, hot.

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Trends vendor Wiki e-learning vendor 77

eLearning 24-7

MAY 8, 2017

Over 1,300 vendors in the industry (inc. Significant increase in the number of VCs and Private Equity firms seeking out LMS vendors to invest in and/or acquire. Seeing a plus rate of folks switching from one vendor to another (plus means above average – beyond normal). Vendors boosting in total sales as a whole.

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Trends Micro-Learning vendor RFP 42

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 24, 2014

On a side note, some vendors call it “virtual classrooms” Do you want to track your learners? It is easy to say, “We project the cost of our entire e-learning solution to be $35,000 USD) and from that, we anticipate the cost for an e-learning tool to be XYZ and the rest to be for our learning platform and/or blah blah blah.

Learning Strategy 78

Learning Strategy Strategy Authoring Tools Compliance Training 78

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 7, 2020

How do you explain why these three vendors were selected, how the process for analysis was conducted, and what are the results? Why these three vendors? Simply due that when a consumer is looking at an LXP, or say Degreed or EdCast or Fuse, the other two vendors are part of the final process. Where do you start? Here is how.

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Analysis Metrics Scanning vendor 131

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Is your LMS going to be on your servers or on the vendor’s servers (i.e. Internet: If your solution is going to be hosted on the vendor’s site, and you plan to have your end users access at work or at home: you still most ask yourself the questions in #2 for the workplace and then even at home. How old are your computers?

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LMS Mac Firefox RFP 40

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Is your LMS going to be on your servers or on the vendor’s servers (i.e. Internet: If your solution is going to be hosted on the vendor’s site, and you plan to have your end users access at work or at home: you still most ask yourself the questions in #2 for the workplace and then even at home. How old are your computers?

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LMS Mac Firefox RFP 40

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 20, 2022

Never assume that they know the terminology in the industry, nor assume that what you think one term means, doesn’t necessarily mean what the vendor thinks it means. In the Enterprise and Large Enterprise it is not uncommon to get pricing that is quite high, especially if the vendor knows procurement is involved.

Learning System 79

Learning System System Guide Blended Learning 79

Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Sometimes we do it for speed, sometimes we do it for cost. The ones that show up with that RFP of like, we're not looking for a tech vendor or, you know, a content solution. And you know, of course, on the vendor side, you're trying to secure business and get a win. We do it for scale, we do it for efficiency.

Digital 52

Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Sometimes we do it for speed, sometimes we do it for cost. The ones that show up with that RFP of like, we're not looking for a tech vendor or, you know, a content solution. And you know, of course, on the vendor side, you're trying to secure business and get a win. We do it for scale, we do it for efficiency.

Digital 52

Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I understand you do not want to hurt other people’s feelings or you have been notified that you have to ask all these departments for their suggestions, but no one ever says you have to take all that stuff and stick it into your RFP or documents or make it an important component of the decision making process. Yes, listen. Demo Rules.

Learning System 44

Learning System System RFP Metrics 44

SweetRush

JULY 11, 2022

When you sign up for a professional training class or bring a vendor in-house to deliver a specific program, you’re signing up for an experience that has already been developed and that will be facilitated in the same way over and over again for different audiences. . Want to refer back to this later? It’s relatively inexpensive.

Compliance Training 69

Compliance Training Custom eLearning Development Blended Learning Solution 69

LearnUpon

JULY 14, 2016

Companies should be wary of the value a “free” learning platform can deliver and alert to the costs quickly accrued in maintaining, updating and supporting an LMS without a vendor. Despite its low cost and flexibility, Moodle’s weaknesses can make it a costly choice for companies with conflicting needs and requirements.

Authoring Tools 40

Authoring Tools Blended Learning White Label SCORM 40

Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Through practical, front-line experience, we’ve identified the information and steps that are most effective in defining requirements and formulating a short list of highly qualified vendors for any type of learning management scenario. We worked with the buyer to define requirements and identify four strong vendor matches.

Association Learning Management System 40

Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS vendor 40

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 30, 2016

I mention this, because in the e-learning world, there are winners and losers, albeit we do not call the vendors who lose out to a deal with a customer or an opportunity, losers. But make no mistake, one vendor is going to win and one or many will not. If you are seeking a system, high maintenance usually scares vendors off.

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vendor RFP Custom Brain 40

Talented Learning

JUNE 5, 2017

See More Vendors in our LMS Directory. License Model/Cost. Overarching ability for learners to accumulate points for learning, skills or references and try to achieve a generic Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum badge that looks like it was designed in 1999 (if there were badges in those days). See More Vendors in our LMS Directory.

Adobe Captivate 68

Adobe Captivate Adobe Association Learning Management System Captivate 68

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

These are being reported out of the larger eLearningGuild population and I would claim that they are likely more accurate than survey research that goes through the vendors themselves. Several of the LMS vendors appear more than once, such as Oracle. They can be used to see how LMS vendors stack up against particular features.

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LMS Cornerstone OnDemand Oracle Saba 157

LearnUpon

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A small unit of a larger piece of learning content is referred to as a chunk. One benefit of a cloud LMS is that it’s quicker and more cost-effective to install than self-hosted learning solutions. Face to face training refers to the in-person elements of instructor-led training. Classroom-Based Training. Gamification.

Compliance Training 63

Compliance Training Blended Learning Authoring Tools Instructional Design 63