I'm seeing some vendor driven confusion in the market place. We have a profusion of Learning Management System suppliers and now Learning Content Management Systems (following SCORM standards see http://www.adlnet.org) out in the market place. My perspective on this is (and I don't call myself an expert)
i) Functionality of LMS's (online learning usage and performance tracking, training management etc.) is necessary in many medium to large organisations. ii) CMS's (imperative for any organisation with an internal or external web strategy) iii) LCMS's at one level seem to be doing i) and doing part of ii) (mainly focusing on 'structured/planned learning') Seems to me that we are missing the point somehow (or maybe I am?) Surely what we need is: i) Full blown corporate content management capabilities that allows for a variety of user interface development tools with ii) Tracking and usage functionality and iii) Interoperability with other corporate systems (e.g. HR Management) This can happen now with a lot of difficulty but what typically happens is i) LMS 'content' is thought of as a different animal and as such gets seperated from the wider accessibility/content management strategy. ii) LMS implementers and learning and development folk continue to live in the 'online training' paradigm rather than really looking at how the web can radically bring performance improvement. Surely from the users perspective they are one and the same. Anybody got any ideas/thoughts/experience with this? LOVE to hear thoughts... --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise.
