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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

I also had the chance to sit in on three or four demonstrations by LMS vendors per week. Now, even the most security-conscious organizations such as governments and financial institutions embrace software as a service (SaaS). Blogs and Wikis The need for learning management systems to have self-contained blogs and wikis has faded away.

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Firewalls and Security in Software as a Service

Tony Karrer

Thus, while we are excited about wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc., Do not believe any vendor claim that "it works through firewalls" because a firewall can be configured to stop anything it wants. The other big hurdle is the question of security. The security issue not new. That's its job.

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Wikis for Improving Productivity

Experiencing eLearning

Significant increases in productivity with a wiki. We use the wiki for our team, but I wonder what we can do to be more effective with it, as well as how we can help other departments in the company. Use templates on the wiki to make it easier to structure pages so people can be familiar with it. Getting People to Use the Wiki.

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Is the cloud hastening the demise of the LMS?

Xyleme

This specification provides a way for courses running in IMS-conformant Learning Management systems to securely access remote content, tools and services, and receive back user’s results. specification promoted by the LMS vendors is that it actually fosters their own obsolescence. This is a big change, and a welcome one.

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Top 5 LMSs for 2017

eLearning 24-7

Technical and Security? The vendors who are not necessarily on the top of everyone’s tongues. Yet, a lot of vendors do not. Most vendors have an audit trail. Technical and Security. What means nothing to me (but to a vendor, different story). A blog, profile, wiki won’t do it. My response?

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

That same executive secured a mandate from the executive committee to experiment with social networking in three areas of the company: international sales, manufacturing resource forecasting and learning and development.

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Social Learning, Social Media – Brothers in Arms

eLearning 24-7

Is it me or does it seem that most vendors in the LMS/LCMS market still believe that with some smoke and mirrors, you won’t realize that social media actually must be integrated into social learning for it to exist? After all, many have a blog, wiki, rss feed, a Facebook like page, with profile, inc. ″ “&# Web 2.0