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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

CBT Prior to online learning known then as WBT, and then the latter term of e-learning (vendors today, use it to refer to content that is online), there was CBT. CBT was the “new” and exciting way to learn. For the folks who had the LMS on their own servers, they still accessed the courses online.

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Evolving the E-Learning Experience for the 21st Century

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Eliminates the “storage&# content component of learning management systems that sadly continues to grow- to offset systems’ bandwidth and server costs. Tired of having to type to post comments in social learning solutions, what about on discussion boards or forums? Because they see it as revenue.

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E-Learning: Did you know.

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Then after it is wrapped – you zing it into a LMS or on your own web server and expect it to work. If there is not a forum, contact the vendor’s support staff and have them work with you to solve it. E-Learning 24/7. But did you know. There are plenty of times it won’t work. . Did you know that?

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Low Cost LMSs – Yes, u can find one for under 10K

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In the cloud or on your own servers. Low cost systems are typically SaaS based (then again, the LMS industry as a whole is more SaaS based than hosted on your servers). Major downer: available only as hosted on your own servers. Available as hosted or on your own servers. Get your features here, red hot features.

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Times are changing – trends in the content authoring tool market

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You work online via the servers of your vendor. I had thought that this trend would be dying out, but it is amazing at the number of vendors who are entering the space and still focused on the desktop approach. 2010, there was only a tiny few vendors who offered online collaborative and peer review features.

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2010: mLearning Year in Review

mLearning Trends

OnPoint stepped up to plate here – to satiate pent-up demand in some and spark new interest in others – by introducing an integrated set of social features that blend “formal with informal” with support for PRIVATE mobile discussion forums, access to blogs and wikis, and support for mobile captured/user-generated content.