Learning Platforms
Technology platforms that support the creation, hosting, distribution, tracking, and reporting of learning programs and experieinces.
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Demystifying the Connections Between the LMS, LRS, and xAPI
If you’ve attended a learning conference recently, you’ve heard the buzz around learning record stores (LRSs) and the Experience API (xAPI). With so much attention focused on the potential, organization leaders look for ways to use data interoperability. Many are still having difficulty identifying a practical starting point. Here are three case studies and advice that will clear things up.
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Toolkit: Adobe Captivate Prime
Adobe set out to create a new LMS that it hoped organizations would find easy to use and yet powerful too. The company began by researching first what organizations liked and then what they didn’t like about their LMSs. If you are looking for an LMS, you really need to read this review!
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LRS Conformance: A Call to Action for Industry and Academia
Today, most business enterprise functions quantify their very existence with data. Compared to them, the training function is in the Stone Age. On April 12, ADL released the LRS Conformance Test Suite. Conformance and certification are critical steps in moving xAPI technology into L&D practice. For organizations that are not ready, the consequences will be disruptive.
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Ten Best Practices for LMS Upgrade or Migration
LMSs today have to keep up with the technological revolution. This often means frequent upgrades or even switching to a new system entirely. If buyers think that keeping up is the LMS provider’s job, they may be unclear about their own role in the process. Here are some best practices that can make the overall LMS upgrade or migration process go smoothly.
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Trivantis Releases CourseMill 7.5 Featuring New Mobile App and Student Interface
The CourseMill 7.5 learning management system improves the learner experience.
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xAPI Camp Recap: Learning Solutions 2017, Orlando
xAPI Camps offer a day-long immersive experience around the Experience API. Intended to help participants understand the totality of what is possible with xAPI, the camps meet the needs of beginners and experts alike. Here’s a summary of the xAPI Camp held at Learning Solutions 2017 in March!
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Getting Started with xAPI: Take a Hike with an Expert
All fired up about xAPI? Maybe you were at an xAPI Camp at a Guild conference, read a blog post, or checked out some demos, and you’re eager to dive in. It’s like having a new, shiny piece of equipment, and you’re just itching to find a reason to use it. Well, then, let’s get you started!
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Blackboard Launches Learning Management System on AWS GovCloud (US)
FedRAMP-authorized AWS GovCloud (US) further enhances safety and security for government agencies using Blackboard Learn to provide organizational training, preserve institutional knowledge, and close skill gaps among employees.
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The CLO’s Best Friend: Enterprise-Class Microservice Technologies
When it comes to new enterprise-class training and development solution technologies, chief learning officers (CLOs) cannot rely on marketing buzz. They need to know the difference between common application web-based eLearning and training services and next-generation enterprise microservice technologies, including digitized knowledge management. Here’s a quick overview.
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Moodle in Corporate eLearning Mirrors Higher Education Trends
In late February 2017, Moodle marked a historic milestone by surpassing over 100 million registered users worldwide who are utilizing the free open-source system through approximately 100,000 individual installations in both K-20 and professional education instances in governments, corporations, and nonprofits.