Every time a new skill or learning need is defined, learning materials must be adapted to all those new contexts quickly, continuously, and consistently."


"In contemporary learning organizations, content personalization enables the adding of new media, skills, and scenarios, extending blended learning far beyond the classroom and 'traditional eLearning'", he continued. "In line with what content-management technology has achieved in contemporary web-content creation and management, learning content management systems (LCMS) currently enable automated content re-engineering by means of the advanced use of object-oriented XML and XSL technologies."

"In addition, an effective learning process needs to support the complexity and nuances of learning objects, as well as the need to interoperate them efficiently with any LMS. It also needs to support new media and pedagogies, such as mobile learning, in a much more sophisticated manner than traditional e-publishing."

"In a nutshell, new-generation LCMS solutions need to become 'smarter' and empower learning-content personalization far beyond the way in which this can be done using a CMS and LMS today. We call this approach 'dynamic publishing'", Cardinali said.

According to Francesco Pucci, Senior Learning Consultant of eXact learning solutions, ensuring the right people receive the right up-to-date information at the right time can make all the difference between an organization's success and failure. He added, "Thankfully, the evolution of content-centric LCMSs - allied to the more learner-centric LMSs - can provide a robust learning platform to meet these needs."

"With the rapid uptake of SCORM standards and the growing role of learning content in distance-learning processes, cross-LCMS-LMS-content delivery models are emerging in a variety of learning-content publishing and delivery contexts. Choosing the appropriate LCMS and LMS technologies - such as that provided by eXact learning solutions for example - may help in achieving a successful shift in an organization's maturity model."