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What is the difference between a Learning Management System and a Learning Content Management System?
Learning Management Systems - LMS are reporting systems and generally do not include ways to create new content or to deliver small packets of learning.
LMS were created for:
An LMS helps in running a learning organisation.
It does not help create or deploy content.
It does not track students through a particular course or measure their performance with learning exercises and tests.
It does not enable Tutors to communicate with the students.
Learning Content Management Systems
The need for companies to be able to create their own SCORM compliant learning objects drove the development of the LCMS.
Business on the internet is in real time, therefore content development and knowledge access must also be in real time.
An LCMS provides authoring, sequencing, and aggregation tools that structure content to facilitate the learning process. The IDC whitepaper, "Learning Content Management Systems: Comparative Analysis of Emerging Technologies," identifies the components of an LCMS as:
- an authoring application,
- templates and storyboarding capabilities, and may be used to convert existing content.
- a data repository,
- uses meta data to store and manage individual learning objects.
- a delivery interface,
- dynamically serves content that can be modified to reflect a certain look or feel, such as organizational branding.
- administration tools.
- manage learner profiles, course catalogues, offer collaboration tools, including chat, integrated email, and threaded discussion groups.and so forth.
"An organisation has training content such as Word files, PowerPoint presentations, Flash animations, and assessment spread throughout its departments. Using an LCMS, an organisation can aggregate content in a single system, then manipulate it and apply structure to create and deliver courses," explains Guillermo Leija, product manager for Global Knowledge's LCMS Knowledge Pathways. "In essence, an LCMS lets an organisation take control of content," he says. Ryann K. Ellis
LCMS can help organisations to aggregate their existing content into component parts in a single system; imagine a lego system of knowledge blocks.
Companies have the ability to take these knowledge blocks and assemble them anyway the user wants.
A LCMS will manage the workflow of the content. Real time business means a continuous flow of information and this needs to be managed. In particular the LCMS gets the right content to the right people and at the right time.
These versioning capabilities of a LCMS are essential to communicate between authors, collate from remote sites (update, review status), and track the information by date.
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A quality LCMS adheres to industry standards such as IMS (Instructional Management System) and ADL’s SCORM (Sharable Courseware Object Reference Model).
It supports and manages internally and externally (third party) created learning content, and thus preserves the investment companies are making in learning content. |
The Learning System must be dynamic.
To be a learning content management system, the content should also be aware of learners. At a minimum, learning content should recognise who the learner is and record information about the learner's experience.
When the learner logs on to the system and launches the content, they should be taken straight back to where they last left off. And so their experience continues....
As the learners interact with the content, results are passed back to the system. The system can also change its behaviour based on real time student interaction. This would be based on test scores, learning style preferences, skills, communication abilities, organisational roles or any other relevant data.
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The Role of an e-Learning Content Management System in Speeding Time to Performance
The first wave of eLearning was focused on cost displacement solutions associated with administering classroom training, i.e. the LMS.
However, the market has matured and expanded to a second wave of adopters who want a more sophisticated eLearning solution. This second wave requires an eLearning Content Management System to fulfil the needs of personalised and adaptive eLearning along with the economic benefits of reusable Learning Objects.
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Big Question: "Do you need both an LMS and an LCMS?"
Bryan Chapman chaired a panel of LCMS vendors talking about "Advanced Learning Object Repositories." way back in Online Learning 2001 -
Panelists were: Outstart, Logic Bay, Aspen (Click2Learn),
Mechanics and WBT Systems.
Outstart's John Alonzo said the only LMS features an LCMS might lack were the concepts of time and place - an LCMS neither schedules events nor reserves classrooms. You might think of an LMS as a storefront and an LCMS as back-end fulfilment.
Jay Cross's (InternetTime.com) who posted this item said his takeaway from the panelist's discussion was 'that most customers will not need both an LMS and an LCMS.'
An LCMS can roll up information into reports; an LMS can't get into this level of detail. I question whether LCMS's would even be an issue if Saba and Docent didn't have installed bases. In the first white paper below, IDC disagrees. They believe LMS and LCMS will co-exist. My guess is that LCMS will grow LMS functionality and become the only game in town" |
Jay Cross, Internet Time.com has an excellent site on LCMS. Learning Content Management System Diagrams
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Full article - Duncan Lennox, WBT Systems
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LCMS Roundup
ELearning promises to deliver just-in-time learning. A learner gains access to a data repository, answers a few questions, and voila, the system delivers the precise piece of information when and how they need it. Unfortunately, most organizations have yet to experience such a smooth information exchange. Enter the learning content management system -
Learning Circuits - Tech Tools
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