The Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a tool that enables
you to create high quality, interactive, online courses. Virtually
anyone can publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use
LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content,
interactivities, quizzes, games, and assessments—as well as
Silverlight-based animations, demos, and other multimedia. Register to
download the free LCDS release, then start creating your own e-learning
courses today!
With the LCDS, though early in development, Microsoft is showing signs of making a significant move into the eLearning and corporate training markets. While currently not a threat to full-featured Learning/Content Mangement Systems like Blackboard, Angel, etc., it’s clear that the scaffolding being placed to provide a course-creation application that may slot right into Sharepoint or a dedicated server of it’s own, in the case of academic institutions. This may be something for distance educators educational technologists to keep their eye on.
