: eLearning Technology
I received an inquiry from a reader at a large company that is continuously working on large projects with lots of course content running around. They have Articulate courses, classroom courses, SharePoint sites, etc. They have an LMS but not an LCMS. And they currently manage all of this using what I’ve seen at a lot of companies: network drives, naming conventions, some SharePoint. Of course, it’s still a bit of a mess. Sound familiar?
A long time ago, the goal of an LCMS was to help to manage all of these kinds of assets. Along the way, a lot of the LCMS products on the market have become more about a kind of authoring approached with content stored in a database that is transformed into courseware. This is valuable for large scale authoring and translation of content.
They also handle asset management, but I really have not been seeing the kind of large scale adoption of LCMS products for that purpose.
Here are some specifics of what this reader is going for:
We need to figure out a way to get information from other departments to make sure we have the most current information available. We need to set up a process to determine all courses the information will impact. We need to make the changes. Save the previous version in the archives for discovery requests. Save the current version for future updates.These are classic requirements for learning content management. But I’m not sure they line up with what most LCMS packages provide
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