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LMS and LCMS: What's the Difference?

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The focus of an LMS is to manage learners, keeping track of their progress and performance across all types of training activities.

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but isn’t generally used to create course content.

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the focus of an LCMS is on learning content

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It gives authors, instructional designers, and subject matter experts the means to create e-learning content more efficiently

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LCMSs and LMSs are not only distinct from one another, they also complement each other well.

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an LCMS as a system that creates, stores, assembles and delivers personalized e-learning content in the form of learning objects. Though an LMS manages and administers all forms of learning within an organization, an LCMS concentrates on online learning content, usually in the form of learning objects.

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A learning object is a self-contained chunk of instructional material. It typically includes three components: a performance goal (what the learner will understand or be able to accomplish upon completion of the learning), the necessary learning content to reach that goal (such as text, video, illustration, bulleted slide, demo, task simulation), and some form of evaluation to measure whether or not the goal was achieved.

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