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 Last week in the Emerging Technologies class, we designed an evaluation tool to test and measure possible emerging technologies and their ability to close the identified business gap we came up with during the first week of the course. In my case, the identified business gap is an organization's lack of a Learning Management System. The organization needs a centralized learning platform for its employees despite having an identified list of training required for each worker/staff. They only have a list of identified training requirements per staff (depending on their role). Still, there needs to be a tool that provides a platform hosting all appropriate training materials and resources that the employees can easily access. Having a centralized learning management system (LMS) would be ideal to ensure that every employee has completed their required training materials, and it would be easier to track and report the training completion rates and training performance of the employees.

LMS is now widely utilized not just by businesses but also by institutions like government and schools/universities. For example, SAIT uses D2L or Brightspace as its LMS. ITS students use NETACAD, PALO ALTO, and RED HAT ACADEMY for lessons and training, and through these platforms, we can monitor our progress and grades.

In designing my evaluation tool, I identified first the criteria that I think are necessary to achieve the project's goal. The potential vendors or service providers who will be providing possible solutions through LMS with emerging technologies as one of the components must meet these criteria. The five (5) criteria are:

Criterion 1: Features and Functionality

Criterion 2: Scalability

Criterion 3: Support and Training

Criterion 4: Vendor History and Partners

Criterion 5: Cost/Pricing.

In the next blog, I will explain each criterion, the weight and scale, and the emerging technologies identified about LMS.

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