While cost is always a consideration when evaluating LMS software, there are unreasonable risks that require careful consideration when reviewing your options for CME.
Low-cost LMS software doesn’t always mean “unusable” but can you afford the risk?A low-cost LMS may be able to give you just enough of an admin panel for you to launch a single course and manage it, but this won’t be valuable if your organization wants consistent sustainable growth. It also means that your organization will have to be okay with providing a featureless educational experience to your members—a state of affairs that will only deteriorate as your program expands.
A featureless educational experience isn’t a quality issue in the strictest sense of the term—but it is a user experience issue.
“We offer the fewest educational options with zero attention to learning experience design” is likely not the message that you want to give loyal members or potential audiences.
Unfortunately, without competitive features and an LMS structure that lends itself to scalability and innovation, your CME program will have problems attracting new members and keeping those students who remain engaged.
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