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The Real Cost of a Free (Open Source) LMS!

Upside Learning

And what started as a low involvement project suddenly turns a support nightmare for the IT team, who may not be prepared and even geared up for handling this. If IT doesn’t have the skills (mostly PHP and MySQL and of course a good understanding of the LMS code) you either outsource that part or hire additional staff to do the same.

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Building an Internal Simulation Capacity

The Learning Circuits

To produce the right portfolio of skills over the life of the project, managers have to juggle between: outsourcers, consultants, contractors, new hires, repositioned employees, and retrained employees. Many leading organizations have taken a hybrid path. Many leading organizations have taken a hybrid path.