* increased efficiency – increases the efficiency of the content development and deployment process and leverages skilled resources across more and more content programs
* reusable content – stores and manages content from a single repository
* adherence to compliance – delivers content online with strict control over content versions and historical account of changes (i.e., SCORM and Aviation Industry CBT Committee [AICC])
* reduced training time – delivers dynamically more personalized content, such as prescriptive learning programs, to provide more relevant and customized training and reduce overall training time
* delivers learning on demand – organizes content into smaller pieces and enables search and delivery as needed to meet the demand for just-in-time content
E-learning—Effective Content Delivery
Content Authoring
Content authoring tools equip users with a way to integrate a variety of media in order to create professional, engaging, and interactive training content. Content is created one time and can be published to a number of blended learning output formats. How does the LCMS do this? It does this by separating the content logic from the presentation logic—often using meta-tagging—and by following widely-used content standards like SCORM, AICC, etc. (see http://www.brandon-hall.com/publications/lcmskb/lcmskb.shtml). The LCMS enables authors to
* rapidly develop content,
* quickly and easily edit content when materials change,
* republish content into printed materials and other forms,
* develop multilanguage versions from the same source,
* assign roles and responsibilities to content developers.
Content is created using an object model. Assets (i.e., images, text objects, animations, and video) are aggregated into pages, pages into lessons, lessons into modules, and modules into courses.
Course Authoring
The automation for course delivery in LMS has improved as SCORM and AICC standards have been established and widely adopted. Today, these standards dictate how content and learning systems should be designed so that content is sharable among disparate systems.
Most organizations need to develop their own proprietary courses. While most LCMSs provide the means for creating new courses, there are many stand-alone systems that do this as well. They are usually called course-authoring tools. They provide
* templates for creating courses;
* learning objects;
* text, graphics, video, presentations (e.g., slideshows with audio);
* animations and software simulations;
* different types of questions for exhibits and tests: single-correct, multiple-correct, fill-in-the-blank, graphical-choice, drag-and-drop, item-match, true/false, and essay;
* student course/lesson maps, for single-click access to any course location;
* feedback on a lesson-by-lesson basis;
* secondary windows for additional information, large graphics, animations, and demonstrations;
* Web publishing.
Some companies prefer using third-party course authoring tools such as Outstart or Articulate.
LCMS—Solutions at a Glance
Some vendors provide one or more of the capabilities below in a single suite of products. Most will also recommend partners that they work with that can provide functions that they don’t offer directly.
* LMS
* LCMS
* content authoring
* virtual classrooms
Some of the biggest names in learning content management include
• Cornerstone OnDemand – Talent Management Suite,
• Outstart - Outstart LCMS,
• Learn.com - Learn Center,
• GeoLearning - GeoLCMS,
• Saba - Saba Learning Suite,
• SumTotal - SumTotal Talent Development Suite,
• CertPoint - VLS Content Creator,
• WBT Systems - WBT Systems.
To start your own LMS/LCMS software evaluation, check out TEC’s LMS Evaluation Center.
* reusable content – stores and manages content from a single repository
* adherence to compliance – delivers content online with strict control over content versions and historical account of changes (i.e., SCORM and Aviation Industry CBT Committee [AICC])
* reduced training time – delivers dynamically more personalized content, such as prescriptive learning programs, to provide more relevant and customized training and reduce overall training time
* delivers learning on demand – organizes content into smaller pieces and enables search and delivery as needed to meet the demand for just-in-time content
E-learning—Effective Content Delivery
Content Authoring
Content authoring tools equip users with a way to integrate a variety of media in order to create professional, engaging, and interactive training content. Content is created one time and can be published to a number of blended learning output formats. How does the LCMS do this? It does this by separating the content logic from the presentation logic—often using meta-tagging—and by following widely-used content standards like SCORM, AICC, etc. (see http://www.brandon-hall.com/publications/lcmskb/lcmskb.shtml). The LCMS enables authors to
* rapidly develop content,
* quickly and easily edit content when materials change,
* republish content into printed materials and other forms,
* develop multilanguage versions from the same source,
* assign roles and responsibilities to content developers.
Content is created using an object model. Assets (i.e., images, text objects, animations, and video) are aggregated into pages, pages into lessons, lessons into modules, and modules into courses.
Course Authoring
The automation for course delivery in LMS has improved as SCORM and AICC standards have been established and widely adopted. Today, these standards dictate how content and learning systems should be designed so that content is sharable among disparate systems.
Most organizations need to develop their own proprietary courses. While most LCMSs provide the means for creating new courses, there are many stand-alone systems that do this as well. They are usually called course-authoring tools. They provide
* templates for creating courses;
* learning objects;
* text, graphics, video, presentations (e.g., slideshows with audio);
* animations and software simulations;
* different types of questions for exhibits and tests: single-correct, multiple-correct, fill-in-the-blank, graphical-choice, drag-and-drop, item-match, true/false, and essay;
* student course/lesson maps, for single-click access to any course location;
* feedback on a lesson-by-lesson basis;
* secondary windows for additional information, large graphics, animations, and demonstrations;
* Web publishing.
Some companies prefer using third-party course authoring tools such as Outstart or Articulate.
LCMS—Solutions at a Glance
Some vendors provide one or more of the capabilities below in a single suite of products. Most will also recommend partners that they work with that can provide functions that they don’t offer directly.
* LMS
* LCMS
* content authoring
* virtual classrooms
Some of the biggest names in learning content management include
• Cornerstone OnDemand – Talent Management Suite,
• Outstart - Outstart LCMS,
• Learn.com - Learn Center,
• GeoLearning - GeoLCMS,
• Saba - Saba Learning Suite,
• SumTotal - SumTotal Talent Development Suite,
• CertPoint - VLS Content Creator,
• WBT Systems - WBT Systems.
To start your own LMS/LCMS software evaluation, check out TEC’s LMS Evaluation Center.
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