We’re back with another installment in our series of interviews with learning management system (LMS) providers. This time around, we crossed the Atlantic (virtually, that is) to speak with Paul Dooley, CEO of Dublin-based WBT Systems, makers of the TopClass LMS.
As noted in our Association Learning Management Systems report, I was somewhat surprised when WBT Systems was mentioned by a number of organizations that participated in our sector-wide e-learning survey in early 2009. I had been familiar with the company as a corporate LMS provider for some time, but did not realize that WBT had made a strategic decision to increase its focus on working with associations. In the interview, Paul talks about that decision as well as some of the ways in which association LMS implementations differ from those in the corporate world.
As in earlier interviews, we also touch on the direction in which e-learning is headed. One of the trends that Paul touches on, which I am surprised has not come up a bit more in earlier interviews, is increased usage by associations of relatively cheap and easy authoring tools like Camtasia and Adobe Captivate. To hear more of what Paul has to say on this and other topics you can download the audio clip or use the player below to play it right here on the site. The interview is about 11 minutes long.
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Enjoy, and as always, please let me know if there is anything I could do that might make these interview more useful to you. (And if you want to be sure to know as soon as the next one becomes available, I encourage you to subscribe by RSS or by e-mail.)
Jeff
P.S. – You can easily access all of the interviews at: http://www.tagoras.com/tag/association-lms
