What is an LCMS?
Another popular term that you would have come across in eLearning sales meetings and conferences is Learning Content Management System (LCMS). Although LMS systems integrate eLearning courses, they do not provide any mechanism to build and deploy new eLearning courses. To take care of the content development needs of organisations and to reduce dependence on outsourcing companies, the LCMS systems were developed. An LCMS helps an organisation create, store, reuse, locate, manage, and deliver personalised eLearning content. It stores content in a centralised database in the form of learning objects. A learning object is a standalone chunk of information that is created to help learners achieve specific goals or learning objectives. For example, an LCMS may contain a small unit of instruction on object-oriented technology. You can combine this standalone unit with different courses such as Object-oriented Programming or C++. Therefore, learning objects enable organisations to maintain co
