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Learning management systems

'Content may be king, but infrastructure is God.'

Simply put, a learning management system (LMS) is a database-driven software package for managing and administrating learning.

But there simplicity ends.

The term 'LMS' covers a wide range of functional and technical approaches. Many and various are the products on the market, almost all of them purporting to offer a 'total solution'. On a fundamental level, it's often a far from straightforward process establishing exactly what they actually do!

This paper by Donald Clark, Epic, has a wealth of practical advice to help you navigate through the hype and identify what your organisation really needs from a learning management system. Essential to making this important decision, in the author's view, a concerted strategy for learning within the organisation.

• Strategy must determine purchase
• What is a learning management system?
• What are the options?
• Guide to purchasing
• The market for learning management systems

White Paper: Learning Management Systems

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Summary of contents:

• Strategy must determine purchase
• What is a Learning Management System?
  • Learning administration
  • Content management
  • Learner support
  • Learner management
  • Reporting
• What are the options?
• Guide to purchasing
• Markets for Learning Management Systems
  • Types of LMS
  • Results so far
  • Standards
  • Costs