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Select an LMS Consultant Before Beginning Your LMS Selection

WBT Systems

With more than 700 learning platforms on the market, how do you narrow the field down to the best learning management systems (LMS) for your association’s needs? The success of your LMS and online learning programs depends greatly upon the thoroughness of your requirements analysis process.

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How to Create a Really Good LMS RFP

WBT Systems

You finally got the budget to purchase a learning management system (LMS). Ask around for request for proposal (RFP) samples and send one of them to a dozen LMS vendors? Of course, but don’t expect it to suffice for your needs without major revision. Evaluating and scoring proposals. What’s your next step?

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How to Prepare a Business Case for a New LMS

WBT Systems

Do you feel like giving your learning platform a heave-ho out the door? As dysfunctional and frustrating as that old learning management system (LMS) is, your association still relies upon it. Or, it doesn’t have the functionality to allow your online learning business to grow. But you can’t, not yet anyways.

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How to Develop Really Good LMS Requirements

WBT Systems

The request for proposal you send to learning management system (LMS) providers is only as good as the process you use to develop your LMS requirements. Before you even think about creating a request for proposal (RFP), you must spend time on the LMS requirements gathering and analysis process.

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Give a Taste: Let Prospects & Members Sample Online Education

WBT Systems

But how do you get people to make that first investment of time and money into one of your online courses? If you let people sample online education, for example, a mini-course or webinar series , they’re more likely to react positively to your subsequent marketing messages about your paid online courses. Listen and learn.

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Associations: Solving the Skills Gap with Digital Credentials

WBT Systems

Many solutions have been proposed to address this disconnect, including expansion of apprenticeships and online continuing education. Training: Most associations provide training and issue formal continuing education credits, so members are already accustomed to consuming their learning content.

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4 Ways to Increase Non-Dues Revenue

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If you are purchasing a learning management system, do you have an LMS administrator? There may be an option for the LMS company to provide the administration; but this is something to clarify during your request for proposal process. No one learning technology is right for every organization. Technology.

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