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History of the LMS

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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. Other options were universities who went online, via Lotus Notes. The vendor had partnerships with off-the-shelf providers. WBT (Web-Based Training).

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

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Nowadays thanks to the growth of Learning Engagement Platforms, whereas content is a requirement – an essential no less, LMS vendors are jumping head first into the content marketplace that is viewable by all clients (rather than pitching the content via the phone or other comm method). LMS vendor identifies possible options.

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Skills WANTED

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Sure you can watch a video on Salesforce CRM or Lotus 1-2-3, but people learn best when the content is interactive and mimics the product. I can count on my fingers how many content vendors offer courses to teach folks a foreign language. But where is the content related the skills folks need based on the digital economy? Bottom Line.

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Out with the old LMS in with the new: Part I

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If you have neither and are stuck in a contract that lasts more than 1 year, contact your vendor – your sales person to be exact and let them know that you want to leave your contract at the end of the year for that contract (i.e. Again, you should have these files someone on your servers, desktop, drives, whatever.

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Linkedin Learning Mini Review

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Lynda.com content/courses are housed on Linkedin Learning servers, not on Lynda.com (I’ll get to this in a second). On a server most likely, yours or wherever you house your courses. I have to admit, I have not heard an LMS, learning platform vendor say this since, uh, never (ok, since 1998). Where do they sit?

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Both sides now

Jay Cross

And not surprisingly, vendors are encouraging the trend–Microsoft and IBM have added wikis and blogging capabilities to enterprise apps including SharePoint and Lotus Quickr, while Google and upstarts like Socialtext, PBwiki, and Jive Software are luring corporate users with freebie accounts and dead-simple deployment.

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