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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. CBT was the “new” and exciting way to learn. The Birth of Online Here comes the internet, Mosaic 2.1 WBT (Web-Based Training).

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SAAS LMSs and Vendor Client Lists Questions

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What is SAAS and why is hosted better than having it on your own servers. The bottom line without getting technical or overly detailed, the solution is hosted on your vendor’s servers and not hosted on your internal servers. Benefits versus having it on my servers (behind my firewall).

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SAAS (Hosted) LMS and Vendor Questions

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What is SAAS and why is hosted better than having it on your own servers. The bottom line without getting technical or overly detailed, the solution is hosted on your vendor’s servers and not hosted on your internal servers. Benefits versus having it on my servers (behind my firewall).

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Evolving the E-Learning Experience for the 21st Century

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Each one is available today on the Internet for free and these types of products are gaining mass in the global market. The growing number of businesses leaving Microsoft Outlook to Internet e-mail is amazing. But for the majority of e-learning vendors, they just fail to see it.

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Y R Some Vendors confused about e-learning?

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Web based training (WBT which was the term to define web based courses) – E-Learning. . Web conferencing – well it if is for a webinar – it is under e-learning. How often do you hang up the phone, or re-read the email and think to yourself, is that person an expert or just good at surfing the internet?

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Halftime! LMS trends though July

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All they care about is whether the system is in “the cloud” SaaS or “in the cloud” to the consumer means that is it hosted on your servers or wherever you host your LMS and they can access it via the internet regardless of where they are located as long as they have an internet connection.

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LMS Vendors: U Can Survive – Innovate, Invigorate and Invent

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But, the reason I constantly bash this into e-learning vendors heads is this just DON’T GET IT. True, smartphones are here to stay, and they are wonderful for a lot of amazing things, but from a true m-learning standpoint, I just do not see the engaging interactive value here, in comparison to other mobile devices.

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