I figured this would be the go - to community to ask. I haven't done freelance work for a few years and I feel out of the loop.
I'm trying to help a potential client who would like to sell courses and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with the LMS options out there. All of the LMS now feature built in course builders these days. Is it worth it to still offer her a course built as scorm? Does anyone have LMS recommendations that would allow clients to purchase courses either individually or in bundles?
Here is my situation. Our LMS is subscription based, which I imagine many of them are now. I'm not sure how many LMSs are housed internally any more. So that being said, I need to always consider 'Will my organization continue to pay the fee my LMS vendor requires to maintain access to the LMS'. Right now...yes. I'm 3 years into ours with an option to extend two more and we took it. However, in another 2 years will the org want to find something else....maybe. So, I need to ensure all the courses we use/create I can move to another system as I also can't see that we will be giving up distributing online courses anytime soon.
We don't typically buy external courses; most are made in house. I do not use the built in authoring tool, as the one there is access to is simply a method to distribute PDFs and multiple choice questions. I think my vendor might have a more robust tool, but again... more cost for that.
Hope that helps a bit and gives you one perspective.
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Here is my situation. Our LMS is subscription based, which I imagine many of them are now. I'm not sure how many LMSs are housed internally any more. So that being said, I need to always consider 'Will my organization continue to pay the fee my LMS vendor requires to maintain access to the LMS'. Right now...yes. I'm 3 years into ours with an option to extend two more and we took it. However, in another 2 years will the org want to find something else....maybe. So, I need to ensure all the courses we use/create I can move to another system as I also can't see that we will be giving up distributing online courses anytime soon.
We don't typically buy external courses; most are made in house. I do not use the built in authoring tool, as the one there is access to is simply a method to distribute PDFs and multiple choice questions. I think my vendor might have a more robust tool, but again... more cost for that.
Hope that helps a bit and gives you one perspective.
That does, thanks for the response. :)