Satyananda Course Management SystemIn the relatively new LMS market, many commercial vendors for corporate and education applications have to make the conversion from the old style of doing things to new strategies if they wish to be in alignment with the new mood of things. A developer who once worked in the military can see his designing models morphed into education programs used in Yoga Centers. An effective LMS can be the hub of your workspace: to organize projects and information, inform your team, , streamline collaboration, and involve the best employees to produce high-quality work. The Satyananda Course Management System one type of LMS can integrate E-training Distance education Web in classroom Blended facilitated learning Virtual classroom Digital campus � and even accounting models all geared towards peak productivity and quality control in the specific area of Yoga Teacher Certification. This is no chalk and blackboard system in a kindergarten model. This is a high tech, digitally modeled, multi-level, ever evolving approach to organizational management. And it is a vastly growing industry to boot. In 2005, LMSs represented a fragmented $500 million market. The six largest LMS product companies constitute approximately 43% of the market. In addition to the remaining smaller LMS product vendors, training outsourcing firms, enterprise resource planning vendors, and consulting firms all compete for part of the learning management market. Often there is a disconnect when the HR department oversees training and development initiatives, where the focus is consolidating LMS systems inside traditional corporate boundaries. Software technology companies are at the front end of this curve, placing higher priority on channel training. This may not be as much of a problem when the sales or marketing departments take charge of this process. They tend to have larger budgets then HR and such have both a greater flexibility on what they wish do do but also more influence on how it is to be done. Most buyers of LMSs utilize an authoring tool to create their elearning content, which is then hosted on an LMS. Buyers, however, must choose an authoring tool that seamlessly integrates with their LMS in order for their content to be hosted. There are many authoring tools on the market, which meet AICC and SCORM standards and therefore content created in tools such as these can be hosted on an AICC or SCORM certified LMS. However they may be hosted in the end the goal is increased return on investment at the lowest possible |