Paradiso

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Research Vendors. Once you have identified your needs, it is time to research potential Learning Management System (LMS) vendors. Once you have identified the LMS vendors you wish to include in your tender, it is time to prepare the tender document. Your exact goals for using an LMS are spelled out in the RFP.

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Association Learning Management System LMS Learning Management System RFP 91

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Yeah it is a peeve of mine, which is why, I decided that LEPs needed their own RFP template. Anyway, after studying the market in-depth – the LEP market that is, I felt an RFP specifically for that market made sense. . LEP RFP Template. First off, here is the LEP RFP Template – everything you need in one document.

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RFP Templates vendor OneNote 63

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 31, 2022

One item, that people who are looking for a learning system often perceive is that the RFP will be the key deciding factor on selecting or at least narrowing down their list for a learning system. It is why vendors get inundated with them, from folks who have never looked at the learning system, initially.

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RFP Informal vendor Metrics 85

Mitch Moldofsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

For the most part, I find that the elearning RFPs lack enough information to make a proper bid or they ask you to jump through hoops just to get to an interview stage. Richard chimed in: I often receive requests to submit RFPs from vendors who have found me either here in the Elearning Heroes forums or via my social media presence.

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eLearningMind

MARCH 2, 2023

But in 2010, after putting out a call for vendors to develop a set of next-gen eLearning standards, the governing body of SCORM, Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), tasked a company—Rustici Software—with that responsibility. xAPI is also helpful to anyone looking to integrate their own (in-house) LMS with third-party products and vendors.

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xapi Compliance Training Resources SCORM 52

Talented Learning

MAY 29, 2018

LMS vendors, I owe you a post. Then we recommend 4 highly qualified, matching vendors to evaluate in a formal RFP process. Learning systems buyers are always more successful when they invest time upfront qualifying vendors for their specific business situation). It’s a fascinating side benefit of my job.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 25, 2007

Continuing on from my earlier posts: LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process From several comments and from looking at my list of issues, I realize that writing a good LMS RFP is challenging and it's easy to make lots of mistakes. The list in this LMS RFP went on and on at this level.

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RFP Association Learning Management System LMS Virtual Classroom 104

Talented Learning

JULY 11, 2016

With almost 700 LMS vendors in the world, competition for every sales opportunity is fierce. Along the way, I have seen more than 100 salespeople from multiple vendors compete to win legitimate business opportunities. LMS Vendor Sales Tips. I know because I spent 13 years selling learning management solutions. For the last 2.5

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vendor Sales LMS Tips 67

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 11, 2023

A vendor says “elearning course” ignoring that it really has a hyphen between the e and the l. I never understood why a vendor does this. Why can’t a vendor simply say video? A lot of vendors will list the publisher of the content, as if some learner says, “Holy Moly – you have IT skills?

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Learning System System White Label vendor 75

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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eLearning 24-7

JULY 19, 2023

Since it offers this option, I had to go and hit the test to find out which one does the best job, which one(s) are so-so and if there were any that totally failed with hallucinations? The Vendors – With GPT-4 (I used as plugins) AI PDF – The web site, you can do nothing with it. I then selected two standalones (i.e.

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eLearning 24-7

MAY 9, 2022

Apply for a job? Most of the time, unless you lived in a large city, you would get the national papers or bigger city papers to look for said job. The idea of using the Internet to find a job, well it just wasn’t available. The idea of using the Internet to find a job, well it just wasn’t available.

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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. But frankly, if you pick the wrong tool for the job, you’ll probably never be 100% satisfied. To learning systems vendors, it suggests that you want to change the underlying software code.

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Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS vendor 92

The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 10, 2013

As a learning solutions vendor, I’ve been asked this question countless times and have also encountered it in many an RFP. First we have to understand the alignment between a learning intervention, whether that’s classroom-based, elearning, coaching, on-the-job structured experiences, or something else, and the intended impact (e.g.,

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Evalution RFP Organizational Learning Write Blog 229

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 26, 2023

The majority of vendors will continue, regardless of what you espouse. Now, if you want employee learning only, and you go to a vendor who only does customer training, then the initial “use case” rejection (politely) is understandable. The vendor is Skill Jar. The vendors really need to know more about the use case.

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Learning System System vendor Association Learning Management System 63

eLearningMind

MAY 10, 2022

The selected vendor is responsible for every aspect of training—from training needs analysis, development, and delivery to ongoing follow-up and re-training. In this approach, companies usually choose outside vendors to deliver a sub-task within their overall training strategy—such as eLearning development. Define your requirements.

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Outsource Compliance Training Diversity Training eLearning Developer 52

Web Courseworks

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The new book is succinct, well organized, and full of useful tips if you are tasked with either creating or responding to an RFP. If your job is to write the RFP, hopefully you can avoid the ten dumbest RFP questions. The truth is that RFPs often do SUCK. The importance of assembling a team to respond to the RFP.

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RFP Lesson eLearning Consultant Management 100

Learning Pool

MARCH 16, 2022

Every vendor on the Fosway 9-Grid for Learning Systems is passionate about the capabilities of their platform. Your job as a buyer is to find the one that most closely fits your needs without it being more feature-rich, flexible, or complex than you require at your stage of maturity. You don’t want to pay for features you don’t need.

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Learning System System Specialist vendor 82

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).

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Learning System System Metrics Mentoring 73

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Questions – Each learning system vendor was asked a series of questions. I recognize that not everyone – i.e. vendor has the funds to invest heavily into the UI/UX, and thus I put that into context when reviewing a system. Here is the take vendors love to say, 1. Based on their responses, points were awarded.

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Learning System System Metrics vendor 98

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

eLearning Blender

SEPTEMBER 29, 2007

Writing an RFP - What a Conundrum! All the articles say that a crucial part of the LMS selection process is writing a quality RFP, but nobody goes on to tell you how. In my own interest, I am going to attempt to answer the question of how to write a quality RFP. What is an RFP?: Why write an RFP? Why write an RFP?:

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WBT Systems

JUNE 19, 2018

Before you even think about creating a request for proposal (RFP), you must spend time on the LMS requirements gathering and analysis process. If you don’t get it right, you won’t create a useful RFP or select the best LMS for your association. You’re going to need at least a budget range for the RFP. Requirements must be clear.

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Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS RFP 44

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?

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Learning System System Metrics Compliance Training 69

Breakthrough eLearning

JUNE 5, 2007

Two weeks ago, in a moment of weakness, I almost submitted a response to a request for proposals (RFP). It was for an eLearning development project for which I knew our firm could have done a terrific job. I have won and lost my fair share of RFP competitions in the past. I thought great, the project is ours.

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WBT Systems

MARCH 13, 2018

They know what questions to ask during the requirements gathering process to elicit the information needed for a request for proposal (RFP), including questions you’d never think about asking. Consultants help you create a Request for Proposal (RFP). The LMS consultant keeps in touch with everyone on the vendor team and on your team.

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Association Learning Management System Association LMS Consulting LMS 44

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 21, 2014

Act 2 – Select only a vendor who is well known (name recognized). What it does mean, is that the vendor is strong in marketing and getting their name out to the general public. If you are interested in seeing the basics, then check out my LMS RFP template. If your LMS vendor does not offer it and you want it, go API.

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LMS RFP Cornerstone OnDemand vendor 69

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 26, 2014

But what you rarely hear, is something I have often been hearing, which isn’t going from any spirit, rather it is coming from some LMS vendors. Any vendor who sees you as a potential customer, should go to your web site and grab the banner/header or colors and place it in your demo before you begin.

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Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

You’ve likely endured heated internal discussions, unwelcomed vendor surprises during demos and unforeseen contractual confusion. Now is the time to clear your mind of negative thoughts about the selection process, your colleagues, the vendor or anything else that might stand between you and a positive mindset.

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LMS vendor eLearning Consultant Project 81

eLearning 24-7

JULY 6, 2011

Groups can be separated by dept, job code, location, etc. What about a payment gateway – does the LMS vendor assist you with this or do you have to find your own? I only know of a few vendors that include a TM/PM feature at no additional cost, it just comes with the system – and their systems are what I consider a full LMS.

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Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS RFP 68

eLearning 24-7

MAY 24, 2019

These two vendors are EdCast and Degreed. Getting back to being unaware, I find the same issue with a few vendors in the learning system space who are really LXPs, but have no idea. It reminded me of the vendors in the space who scream they are not an LMS, even though they hit all the standards of an LMS. . In my opinion, no.

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eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 31, 2019

I mention this because there are vendors who continue to push towards adding performance management functionality to their learning system, with many people assuming these vendors to be, LMS vendors when it just isn’t universally true. I know of vendors who tell me they are not in the content business.

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Scanning vendor Association LMS Association Learning Management System 47

Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Also, the corporate sector is ripe for partnerships, especially with associations that are willing and able to focus on industry-specific job readiness, reskilling and upskilling. Vetting every vendor is impractical. 11) How important is finding the right vendor culture “fit”? When to issue an RFP (or not).

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 1, 2007

This year we had over 35 corporate professionals and at the end of the week, we have 11 companies interviewing 16 students for jobs. The students must write a 40 page response to the RFP, create a working prototype and then deliver a 20 minute sales presentation. It was fantastic. The three day event works as follows.

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eLearning 24-7

APRIL 23, 2019

Not every vendor offered them, but more than enough did and consumers liked that. In the good ol’ days vendors listed trials on their web sites OR if you liked what you saw in the demo, you asked them via the phone or e-mail for a trial. For the vendor, it was a potential win, way better than no one reaching out to them at all.

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Learning System System Authoring Tools vendor 57

Talented Learning

JULY 31, 2019

If you’re a learning systems vendor , this scenario should sound familiar. Your sales team recently crafted a strong proposal in response to an LMS RFP , and the buyer has given your company a thumbs up. That’s because you’ve been asked to compete with other vendors in a software demo “bake-off.”

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Talented Learning

APRIL 24, 2014

If you have been doing your job establishing your network on LinkedIn, almost every prospect is in your first or second-degree network unless you are just starting out.

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