The LMS Guidebook: Learning Management Systems Demystified

Foreword

“You must choose, but choose wisely, for as the true Grail will bring you life, a false one will take it from you.”

—The Grail Knight to Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

While choosing and implementing a learning management system (LMS) is certainly not a life or death situation, your decisions and actions along the way (and the consequences) often make the process seem like one. LMS selection, implementation, and management are tough jobs. Choosing wisely, based on knowledge, experience, and proven practices, can go a long way toward avoiding an LMS experience that could be almost as bad as drinking from the wrong Grail.

But that’s easier said than done. As a speaker at many e-learning conferences and corporate ...