Hi David, Most of the service work we've had over the past few years has been in the eLearning space. In fact, mCubes was an "LCMS" before the term existed and before LMSs made LCMSs practically useless. I've always tried to make our system a true CMS and not one that is specific to eLearning (or to the web for that matter). We've actually branded and packaged templates, structures and code modules, and called it our eLearning edition. mCubes however is used for many types of productions including Extranets, Intranets, Portals, CDROMs...
An LMS is fundamentally a portal. An LCMS is typically a layman's CMS and is often integrated directly into someone's LMS. Companies in the eLearning field want to seperate themselves from the rest (as they always have) and keep producing technologies that are never as good as the technologies we produce ('we' as in vendors on this list). Worst part is SCORM: An ugly mesh of 3 standards that has basically imposed so many restrictions on our courses that the retention rates (the eLearning measure of success) has considerably dropped. But EVERYONE must be SCORM compliant if they want to find work in this space because every large entreprise now has a SCORM compliant LMS. Ever get that feeling back in school that your programming prof was a few years behind? I get that feeling all the time in this field. I'm currently working with a German company's prototype LMS. Seems every ERP company is now building an LMS that integrates directly with their HR systems. Makes sense in theory. The only way to replace a currently adopted LMS is by upselling from an HR system. The end-client is huge. Rollout may include several thousand employees and the courseware may take us another 3 years to complete. mCubes will be used to create the content but after the meetings I've had over the last two months, we've had to drop every bell and whistle we've wanted to add. And the client has too. I have yet to see a single company use learning paths or impose any type of LMS driven content flow. To be quite honest, it would take us a few months to Beta build a fully SCORM compliant LMS with mCubes. We basically were an LMS/LCMS before SCORM came along. I can't understand why they sell for so much. So what's my point? Dunno... guess I'm just venting a bit. We in the CMS space should just engulf the eLearning technologies like a big amoeba. Anyone want to help me define a new eLearning standard? Hehe... a. André Milton www.mlore.com -----Original Message----- Behalf Of David O'Dwyer Anybody got any ideas/thoughts/experience with this? LOVE to hear thoughts... -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise.