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The Worst Type of Question to Ask in Your Learning Management System Request for Proposal (RFP)

Absorb LMS

I have to say, I feel really badly for the organizations that have issued some of the RFPs I’m seeing. They turned to a research firm or various Web sites for a list of learning management system features. They copied most of these features into a RFP and sent it to vendors. Click Manage courses.

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An All-In-One Resource for All Things xAPI

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It is software, or snippets of code, that enables the communication between two or more other pieces of software, systems, programs, or apps. The server takes your order and communicates it to the kitchen staff, who prepares your order and passes it back to the server, who then serves it to you. How is xAPI different from SCORM?

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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

Make sure your team is buying an LMS for the year you’re in. Apart from a two-year stint selling tropical fish at a local pet shop when I was 16, my entire career has been in learning technology. As an analyst a decade later, I wrote industry reports about learning management systems, authoring tools, and other technologies.

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Learning Systems RFP and Tier4 NexGen

eLearning 24-7

I note this, because this post covers my new Learning Systems RFP Template , which includes the latest NexGen Tier 4 feature sets. Why one RFP instead of specific ones for LXP and LMS? Simply speaking the systems are becoming extremely similar, with only minor differences. You choose. NexGen Tier 4.

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Buying a Learning System – Dread

eLearning 24-7

It’s not a typical word that comes up when you decide to purchase whatever type of learning system, whether it is an LMS, LXP, Learning Platform, Talent Development Platform, Employee Dev Platform (a tiny market, but it exists), or whatever a vendor spins their learning system as. Yet it is there.

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Enterprise Learning Systems – How I love thee?

eLearning 24-7

A multi-level LMS, seven to be exact – with a 3D front-end customized to even the carpet had our name on it. Enterprise and The RFP The RFP is the second step. How much time do you want to spend on that RFP? ” – That should be part of your RFP. Ask But they understood. Geolearning. Bookstore.

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LMS Do and Don’ts – Isn’t it time to do what’s right?

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I can attest that I see a lot of people – and I say this with all honesty – a lot of people make monumental mistakes when picking a system – then it is too late. Realize that in the LMS space, as mentioned before, the average time in the market is two to four years. And that stone cannot be broken. That’s it.

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