John Leh

They are experts at endless and varying topics and their job is to teach it, but they don’t teach employees though – just everyone else including external sales and distribution channels, customers, members, dealers, agents and the public at large.

nternational Parking Institute utilizes Docebo to train, certify, measure and report on learning for parking professionals from member organizations in every industry globally.

There are new buzzwords out there since the last time you paid attention like Gamification, Social Learning, Mobile Learning, Cloud, SaaS, Tin Can, NextGen, Talent Suite and extended enterprise LMS and you are not sure what it all means and how it applies to you.

Organizations continue to purchase standalone LMS systems every day and rarely consider more than one HR or talent suite LMS products as the starting point.

Tin Can simplifies the tracking and recording of any learning event – no matter how informal or non-traditional making it easier to use and less limiting than SCORM.

An extended enterprise LMS supports learning efforts for non-employees, including channel partners, customers, prospects, members, franchises, resellers and distributors. 

Responsive design is popular because it works on any device and all platforms, thus eliminating the need to test everything on many devices.

Absorb is definitely extended enterprise ready and has many features to support external audiences; the interface can be skinned and globalized very neatly with clients’ colors, logos, fonts, language and dynamic group functionality.

The integrated social learning features are great for extended enterprise audiences like channel partners and association members because many times you do not know who they are and the integrations automate the account creation and login process.

A common value proposition you will hear from your employee LMS provider is that there are economies of scale in licensing, maintenance and implementation, so from a cost standpoint, it makes sense to expand the existing LMS to external audiences.