CHAPTER 11

LMS Trends: Current and Future

This chapter explains how the LMS is gradually transitioning from the core L&D technology to being one system among many that support learning.

The LMS became firmly established as a product category in the late 1990s. Since that time, there seems to be a doomsday prophesy every few years from people in the L&D field who believe that the end of the LMS is near. The most prevalent argument is that the LMS is limited, for the most part, to delivering courses. Today, we recognize that people learn not just from courses, but through social media, performance support, adaptive simulations, instructional games, short videos, and many other methods that do not adhere to the course registration and completion ...

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