{"id":2428,"date":"2020-09-22T06:55:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T05:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ltgplc.wpengine.com\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2022-11-04T16:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:35:55","slug":"open-lms-and-ecreators-invest-in-whats-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/news\/open-lms-and-ecreators-invest-in-whats-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Open LMS and eCreators: Invest in what\u2019s working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tim Martin, LTG\u2019s Chief Innovation &amp; Product Officer, based in Nashville, TN., gives more detail on the acquisition of eCreators and what this means for Open LMS, one of the world&#8217;s largest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openlms.net\/open-lms-edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moodle\u2122 based LMS platforms<\/a> providers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>About six months ago, I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/news\/im-a-honda-guy-or-why-were-buying-another-lms\/\">here<\/a> that we had acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openlms.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open LMS<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest provider of Moodle support and hosting. Today, we took the next step with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/news\/learning-technologies-group-to-acquire-ecreators\/\">acquisition of eCreators<\/a>, the largest Moodle provider in Australia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecreators.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Go check them out<\/a>. I\u2019ll wait.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you found out what I already know. eCreators does a bunch of the stuff we do at Learning Technologies Group and Open LMS really well. They value many of the same things. And they do it on the other side of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Buying subsequent Moodle providers is a little different from many other acquisitions that LTG makes. We\u2019re looking for things that fit well together, ways we can fit the teams together to become more than the sum of the parts. I\u2019m excited, because I believe that eCreators:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Serves its customers exceptionally well. We fundamentally believe that Moodle providers can differentiate themselves by how they care for customers.<\/li>\n<li>Is growing. The company is finding ever more elegant solutions for its customers.<\/li>\n<li>Presents itself exceptionally well (what the business people call \u201cmarketing\u201d).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2424 \" src=\"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LTG_ecreators_website_news_alt.jpg\" alt=\"Learning Technologies Group to acquire eCreators as part of Moodle business, Open LMS\" width=\"516\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LTG_ecreators_website_news_alt.jpg 760w, https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LTG_ecreators_website_news_alt-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LTG_ecreators_website_news_alt-200x120.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LTG_ecreators_website_news_alt-500x300.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/>\n<p>And then there\u2019s this\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I believe that eCreators\u2019 approach to the products it puts around Moodle is special. <a href=\"https:\/\/ecreators.com.au\/learnbook-lms-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learnbook<\/a>, eCreators\u2019 LMS offering, is a properly important part of this acquisition to us. We\u2019ll be mixing it together with the existing technology in Open LMS to create solutions that do more for our customers.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a big \u201cIt\u2019s a sign!\u201d guy in general. But I got an email from eCreators last Thursday. It shared six different awards recently earned by eCreators from LearnX. Heading into acquisition weekend with that kind of affirmation is a good feeling.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m excited for the benefits this will afford to Open LMS clients. I\u2019m excited to help support the eCreators clients. And I\u2019m beyond excited to see what the people of eCreators can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Martin, LTG\u2019s Chief Innovation &#038; Product Officer, based in Nashville, TN., gives more detail on the acquisition of eCreators and what this means for Open LMS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltgplc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}