Five Resources: Tips for Strategic LMS Challenges

Learning management systems have been a key feature ofeLearning implementations in many organizations for years, and they continue tobe important even as new technologies and approaches to online learning evolve.However, the strategic questions around the role of the LMS are changing incharacter, and it is essential to understand how organizations are dealing withthese changes.

Here are five resources from The eLearning Guild’s archivesthat will provide examples and ideas that may match your challenges!

Conference Archive:Shifting from Learning to Expertise Management Systems. Organizations train theiremployees so that they can build expertise and perform their respective jobs,yet learning management systems only track and report learning. How can anorganization make the strategic shift away from learning management toexpertise management? In this session video, you will see how one organizationhas done exactly this! Session video from Ecosystem 2015.

Learning Exchange:Seven Learnings from an LMS Implementation. Are you implementing a new LMS? Areyou replacing a legacy system? Benefit from another project manager’sexperience! Leverage what he learned, and from insights such as, “Users don’tdifferentiate between LMS and content—for them, it’s the same.” (In other words,start with the content.) Text.

Online EventsArchive: Rich LMS Functionality without an Internet Connection. Although this OnlineForum dealt with a solution devised for the American Society ofAnesthesiologists, it provides insights that may be of value to anyone whoneeds to come up with a way to deliver rich functionality on mobile deviceswithout internet connections. Recording, handout. Paid Guild membershiprequired for access.

Online EventsArchive: Learning Platform Strategies: LMS, LRS, or Both? As learning evolves to be moreon-demand and predictive, how can you plan and adopt a flexible learningarchitecture that combines existing training resources and services with futureeducational-technology innovations to accelerate organizational performance?This is a tough question to answer, and this session provides you with tipsabout the best possible paths to move from an LMS-centric to an LRS-centriclearning approach, including the obstacles to avoid. Recording, handout. Paid Guildmembership required for access.

Online EventsArchive: Reimagining the LMS: Brand, Marketing, and User Experience. An important move forlearning and development teams is to shift from being a training provider tobecoming a strategic partner in the business. This case study shows you how alearning and development organization re-thought its LMS so that it was nolonger a pain to use and expanded its functionality to give employees theopportunity to learn from each other. Recording, handout. Paid Guild membershiprequired for access.