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APRIL 28, 2010

Is it me or does it seem that most vendors in the LMS/LCMS market still believe that with some smoke and mirrors, you won’t realize that social media actually must be integrated into social learning for it to exist? See, it is social learning. Nevertheless, social media has overtaken its Web 2.0

Social Media 40

Social Media Social Learning Social Media 40

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

I might have a social learning component in my system, with the standard FB like page or something similar and with “groups&#. What though, have they really learned? It was the brain, if you will, the central component of my “learning community&#. Social Learning: Social Exchanges.

Mashups 73

Mashups Association LMS Association Learning Management System Social Media 73

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Vendors are hearing us and are making changes. More multilingual options to their web sites, trials and social learning. More vendors enabling the use of APIs – i.e. people can create their own API and integrate them into the LMS/Learning Portal vendor’s system, this equally means you can create mashups too.

News 65

News LMS vendor Brandon Hall 65

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The vendor is taking a percentile of the sales of the courses, so it makes sense to go direct and cut out the middleman. You would be surprised at the number of content aggregators who privately do not have an issue with this approach. So, why do they offer the LMS vendors their content to be sold directly into the system?

Association Learning Management System 77

Association Learning Management System LMS Association LMS Blended Learning 77

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AUGUST 12, 2011

So, when I went and checked out Saba Social, Saba’s new social learning platform, I had very low expectations. Saba Social is a very solid product, that despite a few hiccups and “huh&# moments, achieves what it sets out to do, provide a user friendly social experience. I was surprised. Impressions.

Saba 69

Saba Social Networks Social Productivity 69

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JULY 27, 2011

Revenues across the board are up, profit margins are healthy and competition is on-going (always a good thing). Illogical – I often see systems that add features that seem as though they tossed a bunch of ideas on a wall and whatever stuck up there, went into their platform. The LMS market is strong. The Negatives.

Association Learning Management System 78

Association Learning Management System Market LMS Association LMS 78

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MARCH 27, 2011

This leads to the bigger issue. A trend that is happening in the LMS market more so than in the other e-learning markets, is the failure to follow their path of success. As a result, their Q/A suffers drastically, they fall behind their product release schedule, and they have customer issues. Mobile Learning and Tablets.

Trends 75

Trends vendor Association Learning Management System LMS 75