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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

As CEO of Brandon Hall Research, I oversaw our research calendar, organized conferences, and delivered countless presentations. In my current role with Absorb, I help organizations reduce the effort associated with managing learning by demystifying LMS technology. So what features should you look for in your LMS?

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LMS and Social Learning

Tony Karrer

I constantly hear people (across many organizations) complain about their learning management system (LMS). If I want a great wiki platform, I’m going to download MediaWiki or DokuWiki (also free and they have huge support communities). They complain that their LMS has a terrible interface that is nearly unusable.

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The Smart Worker : shares what s/he learns

Jane Hart

“Dare2Share allows BT employees to learn from each other by rapidly capturing and spreading learning throughout the organization in the form of podcasts, discussion threads, blogs, RSS feeds and other traditional knowledge assets (documents, courses and portals).&# [ BT Dares to share ].

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What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012

Jane Hart

If your organization doesn’t like the idea of using Twitter for company conversations, then the next best thing is to set up some sort of corporate company (Twitter-like) network. For example, Intelpedia was set up using the open source MediaWiki software that is used to power Wikipedia itself. 3 - Google Docs/Drive.

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We Need a Wiki in a Wiki

eLearning Blender

It's obvious that a Wiki would be a great help in my organization. Install behind firewall – One of our tech support guys has experience with PHP and MediaWiki in particular so I am hoping to leverage his experience and install MediaWiki behind the firewall. Plus it would be nice to have some more robust options.

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IT Comes up Huge!

eLearning Blender

I actually refocused on hosted solutions because the notion of installing MediaWiki behind the firewall was shot out of the water at first. He was persistent enough to find a solution that all parties are happy with and MediaWiki is now installed behind the firewall. So, what are the keys to success in a Wiki implementation?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: I Heart My Wiki

Learning Visions

We installed MediaWiki on our local server a couple of weeks ago and Ive been using it to record everything I can for my e-Learning strategy project. And it will serve a double-purpose in terms of educating them about the potential uses for wikis within their organization. And I love it. Bye bye Word. Yes, I love my wiki.

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