Create a tailored list of LMS selection criteria for your organization! Includes free videos, document downloads, and access to an online community of administrators when you register your book purchase! Is your organization choosing a new learning management system? Intended for training managers, LMS administrators, and other corporate folks, The LMS Selection Checklist provides a list of system features and criteria to help your organization identify the correct learning management system. Don't interview an LMS vendor without this book! Discover: LMS features your training department will love! Questions your organization should ask to avoid LMS snafus. Details to incorporate into your LMS implementation plans. Use The LMS Selection Checklist to: Guide internal discussions regarding what your organization needs from an LMS. Ask targeted questions during exploratory calls with prospective LMS vendors. Brainstorm about your organization's unique LMS and e-learning needs. Create a Request for Proposal (RFP) document for vendors to submit to your organization.

Intended for training managers and brand-new LMS administrators, LMS Success is full of advice regarding learning management system administration. Technical knowledge is optional! Basic concepts and easy-to-use tips are presented along with activities to help you develop your LMS, e-learning courses, and corporate training program. LMS Success was written by a trainer and LMS administrator, with the help of many learning management aficionados. Discover: The functions of an LMS. Stories and advice from experienced system administrators. Training and development resources that save you time and money. Activities to help you develop your system. Learn How to: Select and implement an LMS. Introduce the system to employees and leadership. Assemble and manage a system administrator team. Develop effective e-learning course content and deliver virtual classes. Handle technical issues, support, and system maintenance. Use your learning management system to the fullest extent. Here are some specific topics discussed in LMS Success: Select the best LMS software provider by setting goals for e-learning, asking the right questions, and considering your company's budget and needs. Determine a plan for system implementation. Market your plan to leadership and employees. Build enthusiasm for your learning management system! Discover innovative ways to deliver e-learning and present virtual classes. Create interactive courses using simple audio and video production. Build an administrator team that has excellent communication and project management skills. Involve all company departments in developing course content. Create excitement for training through inter-department competition. Purchase e-learning software and discover free training and development resources. (Short reviews are included.) Understand basic terms and concepts associated with learning management system administration, including SCORM, AICC, Tin Can API, and more. Set goals for technical support. Manage system outages and anticipate common technical issues. Discover easy methods to make the LMS more user-friendly and appealing to employees. Motivate managers and employees to spend more time training. Use learning management system tools to make administrative tasks, such as data entry, faster and easier. Encourage a positive training culture by communicating the system's successes and developing an innovative, well-structured training program.

E-Learning QUICK Checklist walks readers through the various factors important to developing, evaluating and implementing an open, flexible and distributed learning environment. This book is designed as a quick checklist for e-learning. It contains many practical items that the reader can use as review criteria to check if e-learning modules, courses and programs provide the level of services that learners (or consumers) should expect. Items in the checklist encompass critical dimensions of e-learning environment, including; pedagogical, technological, interface design, evaluation, management, resource support, ethical, and institutional. Throughout the E-Learning QUICK Checklist, various critical e-learning and blended-learning factors are presented as questions or items that you can ask yourself when planning, designing, evaluating and implementing e-learning and/or blended-learning modules, courses and programs.

Select, Implement, and Operate the Perfect LMS If you need to manage training and education programs for employees, customers, or students, you need an LMS. Don’t waste time and money picking the wrong one. The LMS Guidebook gets to the core of what an LMS does and how it works. This book tackles the urgent challenges you will face when putting an LMS in place: Which features are must-haves? What standards should your LMS comply with to mesh with your other technology systems? How do you migrate existing learning data into your new LMS? How can you ensure an uneventful rollout? Not all LMS products will meet your needs. E-learning consultant Steve Foreman offers a broad view of the LMS categories and features so you can ask better questions of vendors and evaluate their products. He then turns to implementation and operation, offering in-depth guidance on how to establish appropriate standards, processes, and governance that will have your LMS running smoothly. Whether you’re on the instructional or technical side of the LMS, you can make the job of selecting and managing one less painful by following the proven practices in this book.

Learning management systems (LMSs) are used today to assist in the designing, delivery and management of learning resources for learners. There are hundreds of LMS available in the marketplace. Selecting the most suitable LMS that meets specific requirements is a problem of decision making. Many studies in learning management system selection are implemented under complete information, while in the real world many uncertainty aspects do exist.

A learning management system is the cornerstone of any organization’s online training and development process. Like buying a car, purchasing an LMS is a significant investment and requires care and consideration. In “Lay the Groundwork for LMS Success,” Konstance Allen unpacks the process for choosing and purchasing an LMS. She details: · what an LMS is capable of · the individuals who should be on your LMS selection committee · how to create a request for information · the type of support you should expect from an LMS supplier.

Skillfully shifting between online and in-person learning has become expected of teachers. In this essential guide, you will learn how to harness technology to enhance student learning in both realms. Combining theory, reflection, and personal experience, author Catlin R. Tucker equips educators with a wide variety of strategies and tools to support student and educator success in blended environments and beyond. K–12 teachers and administrators will: Gain insight on why blended instruction provides paths for effective, student-centered teaching Learn to navigate flexible learning landscapes Understand different collaborative and community-oriented strategies for successful blended teaching Utilize thoughtful reflection questions to examine your own school or district Discover strong theoretical frameworks and models for online and offline instruction Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Blended Learning Chapter 2: Building Your Blended Learning Technology Toolbox Chapter 3: Teachers as Designers of Learning Experiences Chapter 4: Teachers as Instructors and Content-Area Experts Chapter 5: Teachers as Facilitators of and Partners in Learning Chapter 6: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community Chapter 7: The 5Es Instructional Model and Student-Centered Inquiry Chapter 8: Taking Blended Learning to the Next Level Conclusion Appendix: Glossary References and Resources Index

Today, many common activities have been transformed to electronic and online based environments because of the increased usage of technology and the Internet. Education is one of the sectors that is using computer technologies for training and delivering learning information to learners.

Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy is a comprehensive overview of standards, practices and possibilities of course management systems in higher education. Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy focuses on what the current knowledge is (in best practices, research, standards and implementations) and the history of the CMS, while also discussing innovative practices in CMS instructional design that have been informed by learning theory and intentional pedagogy. The last section of this book is an invited section, where vendors (WebCT, OKI, Angel) and innovators address their vision of the tools, practices and possibilities in a true next generation. Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy represents the points-of-view of a variety of stakeholders and allows each to write in the style and language that is relevant to their field, making this an incredibly useful tool for practitioners, developers, administrators, faculty members, and students.

The technical resources, budgets, curriculum, and profile of the student body are all factors that play in implementing course design. Learning management systems administrate these aspects for the development of new methods for course delivery and corresponding instructional design. Learning Management Systems and Instructional Design: Best Practices in Online Education provides an overview on the connection between learning management systems and the variety of instructional design models and methods of course delivery. This book is a useful source for administrators, faculty, instructional designers, course developers, and businesses interested in the technological solutions and methods of online education.