If you are somewhat interested in eLearning and unless you have been living on a deserted island for the last year you probably have already heard about the TinCan project. TinCan is heavily promoted as the successor of SCORM and...
Author - Athanasios Papagelis
Zen in Software
The Zen philosophy asserts that inner peace and enlightenment can be attained through self-contemplation and meditation rather than devotion, faith and belief. Life is more often than not too fast, complicated and cluttered...
eFront vs TalentLMS
This is part 2 of our series on TalentLMS. To read part 1, please click here So, now we have two LMSs – eFront and TalentLMS. Both products share characteristics but they are also very different in some very important aspects...
TalentLMS is NOT in BETA anymore
After several months of Beta testing and refining, TalentLMS has been officially released today, October 5th. This is just the first of many steps towards building the best learning tool for small organizations. And boy, we have...
Re-evaluating the LMS
The LMS is 20+ years old. It is time to re-evaluate it, get back to its roots and see things from a new perspective. Technology shifting towards the Cloud, Mobile and the Lean approach to software development are key factors in...
TalentLMS – an introduction
Today we would like to announce the public-beta release of TalentLMS, our brand-new lean LMS that, quite simply, just gets the work done. TalentLMS is a cloud-based, lean LMS with an emphasis on usability and easy course...
How to choose an LMS
So, you are looking to buy an LMS. You might already have stumbled-upon Moodle, Dokeos, Blackboard, Saba or Sumtotal. You have definitely stumbled-upon eFront, otherwise you would not be reading this message 😉 The thing is...
Open-source and the “security through obscurity” fallacy
The security of open source software is a key concern for organizations planning to implement it as part of their software stack, particularly if it will play a major role. Currently, there is an ongoing debate on whether open...
Latest eFront news: On our cloud-offering & Community++
Introducing our cloud offering! As many of our users already know, we’ve been working on eFront-4 for some time now. During this lengthy process we have come across two major discoveries: Firstly, we witnessed a strong...
A short history of nearly everything
Here is a book that I found an excellent source of inspiration on many fronts: “A short history of nearly everything”by Bill Bryson The book describes general sciences such as chemistry, paleontology,astronomy, and...