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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

The other day, I was listening to an audiobook, and the author spoke about ideas. I thought about this, as you can tell, and said to myself, okay, let’s write a post where the e-learning history and thus learning systems, authoring tools, and alike are intertwined with good and bad ideas. A lot of us, I think, come up with ideas.

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Do Organizations Still Need an LCMS?

Origin Learning

A Learning Content Management System or LCMS manages all the learning content of an organization in one place. The primary business problem a LCMS solves is to create just enough content just in time to meet the needs of individual learners or groups of learners. Do We Still Need an LCMS? Time to think.

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LMS and LCMS Meets Learning Ecosystem – Part Two

Instancy

When we discuss LMS and LCMS, we emphasize the fact that while many think they are similar, they are in fact quite different. The LMS and LCMS provide different functionality. Traditionally, the LMS and LCMS are disjointed in the sense that the LCMS is treated as a package inside the LMS. What do we mean by disjointed?

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Top 10 LMS/LCMS Trends and Forecasts

eLearning 24-7

The trends apply to both LMS/LCMS vendors. Asia – misleading by LMS/LCMS vendors. Many people still have no idea where to find the address line on their browser, what a URL is, where to locate the “file&# button their browser, let alone change options. They are in no particular order. Equally smart.

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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) Fifteen years ago, learning professionals were obsessed with the idea of re-usable, Lego-block type nuggets of learning content. Like storing your favorite dinner recipes on hand-written, color-coded index cards, managing learning content this way sounds like a good idea. That’s gone.

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7 Things About eLearning Your CEO/Executive Director Wants to Know

Association eLearning

We all have a boss and even our best ideas require an explanation, so before you get an LMS, start designing courses, and tracking learner progress, you’ll need to get his or her approval. It’d save time and resources, and you could standardize training, but how do you explain eLearning to the CEO? 1: How much will it cost?

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LMS/LCMS Puzzlers

eLearning 24-7

Just some thoughts that puzzle me on why some LMS/LCMS vendors (okay over 98% of them) are still in some time warp from the Eighties when it comes time to enhance their services and technological solutions. I know its a novel idea. Unfortunately, we do not have that luxury when buying YOUR LMS/LCMS. No follow-up, zip.

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