Lms News & Articles

The development team for Edvance360 must have been busy. With all the new features in version 6.0, this Learning Management System (LMS) makes learning a truly enjoyable and useful experience.

Though we are already 10 years into the new millennium, many educators are still only talking about 21 century teaching. Years spent discussing the merits of social media, interactive learning and collaborative instruction have slowly developed schools and technologies dedicated to delivering platforms that integrate and enhance the educational experience.

If you've ever had to search YouTube for a tutorial on how to do anything from Microsoft Word to Photoshop to iTunes, you'll appreciate ClipTraining.

ClipTraining, a company that specializes in computer-based training, has announced the availability of its complete training management solutions. From businesses to individuals, ClipTraining has adapted education into a Web-based Issue-Solution on-demand Learning Management System (LMS).

What is it in business that brings out the worst of people when the subject of mergers and acquisitions raises its head? Initial reactions generally speaking tend to be negative and dominated by ‘bigger is badder’ prognostics that may or may not be accurate.

Such is the case this month with the announcement that Blackboard, a provider of Learning Management Suites (LMS) is to take over its (smaller) rival ANGEL Learning.

To date, much of the reaction to the US$ 95 million deal has been at best skeptical and at worst just plain bad. However, Nicole Engelbert, lead analyst of public sector technology at Datamonitor, the data analytic and forecasting provider for the tech sector, says the real issue here -- and possibly the one that could make this the ‘deal of the year’ - is how competitors react to the news.
 

Everyday another niche is born. Say hello to the birth of the Learning Content Management Solution, which, while hardly new, may discover a revival alongside growing interest in SaaS-style offerings.

EZ LCMS plugs the theory of good content management systems into learning management, a much-needed marriage. Then the company took an extra step, making it affordable and simple to use for SMEs.

The clever folk at Northwestern University have developed an open source application able to manage the exchange of content between the Xythos basic content services product and the popular Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS).