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Going by the current buzz in the industry, a pattern seems to be emerging that follows the above equation. Before we discuss what this means to the learner, or the instructional designer, let us first try to understand this equation. To make it simple, I am going to treat this more from the content side, and less from the management side.
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Learn-a-tivity is the notion that individual and organizational effectiveness depends on learning better, faster, smarter and through the consistent application of learning, combined with creativity, flexibility, and paying close attention to the right things.
This site introduces you to resources that support that learnativity revolution. We have no products to sell here, but rather introduce you to ideas that help expand imagination and business practice. We try our very best to stay objective, editorially independent, and only speak from our own experiences. While we offer strategic consulting services, keynote speaking, and leadership coaching to clients throughout the globe, this site is our gift to a world we enjoy learning from and for each and every day. Enjoy!
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Organizations are being bombarded with information from a plethora of sources both internally and externally generated, from intranets, extranets and the Web, in multiple data types and in formats so varied they boggle the brain: text, HTML, XML, images, e-mail, audio, video. This onslaught has spawned a new phrase, content management, which attempts to bring order and value to the information, and to smooth the path to e-business and e-commerce. Here is just a sampling of some of the "content management companies that have captured KMWorld’s attention recently.
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The Training Place offers the Adaptive Learning Intelligence Suite (ALIS), a learning and content management system, because we know that it takes personal recognition, convenience, communication, and a sense of community and empowerment to make learning really work on the Web. ALIS is an innovative family of personalization products that takes advantage of the latest inferential technology to serve each learner with the highest level of individual attention and service. ALIS' set of intelligent e-learning tools works as the learner's own personal online instructor who can help transform the learning experience by being there to support what one needs, to accomplish what truly matters. ALIS is a combination of intuitive software products that benefit from the critical theories of personalized learning, online learning communities, and inferential technology. Each modular, Web-based component is an integral part of ALIS' object-oriented platform architecture, which easily integrates with other open-standard enterprise-wide systems (OBDC compliance). ALIS helps save time and money by personalizing instruction, practice, assessment, analysis, reporting, and evaluation.
The ALIS Core:
. Portal and Learning Center
. Administration Manager
. Reporter
. Assessor
ALIS Add-On Components:
. Content & Test Builder (Authoring Tools)
. Diagnostic Tools
. Portal and Learning Center
ALIS' Portal and Learning Center is a web gateway (portal) that provides access to multiple learning, user, training, and curriculum management functions and features through one interface. It offers a variety of resources to enhance the learning experience, career development, and on-the-job performance. Designed for sophisticated self-managed and classroom learning, the Learning Center provides multiple key options for learning and performance management. It also provides options for developing and managing productive online learning relationships with ease. Long-term objectives are to enhance self-directed online learning ability and online learning relationships supporting individual, group, and coaching interactions.
Administration Manager
ALIS' Manager provides different types of users with customizable views for user, training, and curriculum management and use. The Manager has several standard choices that companies can choose to customize further depending on their roles, relationships, and privileges. Uniquely identifying user needs to tailor specific views is instrumental in making the biggest impact on learning audiences. Whether learning, doing administrative tasks, scheduling, or curriculum management, customized views can help users streamline tasks and improve effectiveness and relevancy. This important module provides functionality for:
* user management (add/delete/modify/import companies, learners, instructors, or managers, manage assignments, privileges, authorizations, and collaboration, evaluation, and reporting.)
* training management (add/delete/modify/import/manage costs, staffing, forecasts, and program evaluation and reporting).
* curriculum management (add/delete/modify/import all types of content and courses (e.g., ILT, CBT, WBT, powerpoint slides, video, and audio), meta-content or course information, scheduling, course registration and assignment, evaluation, and reporting).
Features and Benefits
. Reporter From the beginning our goal has been to ensure learning, performance, and financial goals aligned with high standards, profitability, and return on investment. Supporting this goal, ALIS' products offer unlimited performance reporting using standard reporting tools. The Reporter also reports on implemented Business or Learning Logic (how am I performing?) and gives recommendations for revising and refining learning rules and logic.
Once measurement scales align with competency dimensions, the Reporter will track and manage enterprise-wide learning activity and predict reliable improvemen
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Centra enables groups to work faster and more effectively by automating mission-critical initiatives online. From enterprise-wide app rollouts to sales training and more, Centra's specialized solutions & services will help you plan, execute and evaluate your most challenging projects. Smarter and faster. Delivering efficiency and productivity like never before.
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The original learning management systems (LMS) were developed to automate the administration of learning. They served as strategic planning and management systems for organizations' education efforts. While an LMS could help with managing and acquiring e-learning content, its use did not mean an organization was implementing an actual e-learning initiative because an LMS can be used to manage classroom training and materials.
Systems with the ability to design, create, deliver and measure e-learning initiatives have come to be known as learning content management systems (LCMS). Most of the new LCMS offerings have the ability to support reusable learning objects, and a standard known as Sharable Courseware Object Reference Model (SCORM) has been developed to enable Web-based learning systems to import, share and re-use learning objects. For some, the terms LMS and LCMS and their definitions are interchangeable. Others find neither acronym entirely appropriate. That's why the introduction of technical standards like SCORM will be welcome in the e-learning community.
"I think what you saw in the market is they started to merge together," said Macromedia's Lynch. "We see a need for content and collaboration coming together."
Regardless of what you call the software you use to manage them, Lynch said there are three broad categories of learning content based on the urgency of the information that needs to be learned: a) develop skills and competencies; b) critical knowledge transfer; and c) information broadcast. Critical knowledge transfer and information broadcasts involve rapid e-learning, which needs they are high-volume applications and need some type of content management to facilitate their use, according to Lynch.
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When and how does fun enhance learning, motivation, engagement, and retention? What can we learn from recent work on emotion and design? What makes learning fun for different topics and different types of learners? What do recent studies of computer and video games teach us about designing online learning? When does fun turn into gaming instead of learning? Can current models for instructional design support the implementation of courses perceived to be more fun? Are there new instructional models needed for e-learning? What makes an e-learning technology effective under what circumstances? Which processes can better aid in the selection and use of these technologies? What are the factors influencing the design and delivery of a rich and compelling e-learning experience? Why are so many existing courses "page-turners" and how can the learner experience be better incorporated into all phases of course design, development, and evaluation?
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This page provides links to Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) that range from basic Training Management Systems to sophisticated Learning Management Systems as well as Enterprise Suites that contain a number of learning, performance and content management tools and hosted solutions. Listed in alphabetical order.
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Additional Considerations
When strategizing, designing, and implementing e-learning platforms, there are several additional considerations to be aware of:
Individual Learning Styles
Individual learners have different learning styles (visual, auditory), different computer and Web skills, needs for different content depths, and, unfortunately, different attention spans. Some students learn best on their own, others learn best hearing from those who learned on the Web. The e-learning platform should be ?exible and adaptable enough to provide a satisfactory learning experience to all types of learners.
Bandwidth-friendly Design
Not every student accessing your e-learning infrastructure will have the same bandwidth as the course developers, or on-campus learners, have. Effective, interactive, and satisfying e-learning can take place on a webpage with simple HTML on a white background. Having an e-learning platform flexible enough to deliver multiple types and fle sizes of content, at the user’s discretion, is the answer.
Accessibility for the Disabled
Many governments are now making project funding contingent on providing equal Web access for the disabled. This means adapting content and navigation to meets the needs of the disabled, such as those with blindness or mobility difficulties. The Sun ONE mplementation of the e-learning framework meets these requirements.
E-training versus E-Learning
There are differences between the competency-based skills management type of e-learning, often referred to as training and driven by pre-assessment, and the knowledge acquisition style of e-learning, often characterized by on-line guided tours with post-assessment.
Prototype, Modify, Prototype, Modify
It is important to prototype the infrastructure and associated services early and often with the user community, incorporating their feedback and suggestions as soon as practical. Ultimately the system is for the users, not the designers and builders. A user community which feels involved in the design of the system is far more likely to adapt it.
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Both Generation Expert Edition and Generation Enterprise are world-class products. Both are feature-rich, scalable, and tailored to your needs. The product you choose depends on how your organization operates, the complexity of your goals, and the level of customization and integration you require.
Whether you need to dramatically increase the knowledge and skill level of your extended enterprise, or simply automate, track, and manage training, Generation can help.
Generationsupports both online and classroom-based learning. Most important, its patent-pending "Universal Knowledge Object" technology delivers "nuggets" of information to employees on the job, where most learning actually occurs. Using Generation, workers can retrieve "nuggets" of information instantaneously, work continues without interruption. Best of all, Generation products are easy - easy to implement, easy to customize, easy to manage and easy to use.
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eLearning Tools
Live and Threaded Discussions - Calendars - Synchronous eLearning - Online Quizzes, Tests, and Surveys - Online Course Material (easily upload documents, presentations, notes, and votes) - Assessment and Attendance - Percentage and Strand Marking Scheme Support - Private Messaging - E-mail Notifications - Integrated Workflow Support
Standards Support
Completely Accessible and adherent to WAI Guidelines - XML and Web Service Support - MPEG and SMIL Support - SCORM, IMS Content Packaging and Metadata Specifications, Microsoft LRN
Access and Security
Variety of Authentication Methods (LDAP, NT, Custom, etc.) - SSL and Encryption Support - Intuitive Interface
Workflow Management
Supports centralized management of data flow policies - Allows for the control and management of administrative processes and forms
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Learn.com is the trusted e-learning empowerment company. We provide clients with the technology and knowledge transfer they need to stay ahead of the competition and convert critical information into revenue. Today’s businesses are discovering that rapid online communication and training is the way to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage. Learn.com empowers clients by providing cutting edge technology, superior service, and proven solutions.
Learn.com’s unwavering commitment to understand client needs, goals, and objectives allows us to partner with our clients to increase their business performance and results, creating competitive powerhouses. The Learn.com family of solutions includes an award-winning learning management system (LearnCenter LMS and LCMS), an award-winning multimedia course authoring tool (CourseMaker Studio®), custom content development, patented eAgent technology, and an extensive - , - title off -the-shelf course library. This combination provides a one-stop shopping approach to a fully integrated and proven e-learning suite.
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THINQ TRAININGSERVER® LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)
The THINQ LMS makes learning across your entire organization easier. By deploying a web-based system to initiate, manage and track all learning related activities, you can definitely start shaping a learning culture that's in tune with your business objectives now and in the future; in one language or multiple languages across your organization. Your LMS can even be accessible to your learners with disabilities, in compliance with Section . The THINQ LMS v. sp is SCORM . RTE Level certified.
Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS), provide standards-based content repositories that allow you to capture, store, deliver, and centralize management of custom and third-party knowledge assets. Through the LCMS, you can create and distribute learning content quickly and reduce the cost of maintaining your knowledge assets.
With easy-to-use built-in authoring tools, an LCMS allows content authors to collaborate with one another an ideal environment for larger organizations. Plus, authors can develop smaller, more manageable chunks of learning that can be reused, across multiple learning offerings.
With THINQ's LMS and LCMS combination, you can:
* Create and update custom learning content to provide the most applicable, up-to-date learning resources in less time
* Provide a collaborative learning environment for content authors, then add new courses to the LMS learning catalog to be launched and effectively tracked
* Track changes to content all in one place; no matter how many times content is updated
* Tailor and deliver learning for the needs of specific learners
* Manage all learning activity, including detailed reporting, through the LMS
Prescriptive and adaptive learning is also part of the LCMS mix. The LCMS works in conjunction with the LMS to reduce the amount of time it takes for a learner to obtain important information, while providing them just the right amount of learning that they need, when and where they need it.
These functions plus the ability to author content collaboratively, results in a winning combination! First, multiple content authors use the LCMS to author a course. Next, the course is completed and loaded into the LMS learning catalog. Then, learners can enroll in the course, as part of their learning plans. Managers can assign courses to learners, or learners can add courses to their personal learning plans on their own. As the learner makes progress within the course, it is recorded in the LMS, in the form of status, transcripts, grades, CEU's and the like.
TESTING AND ASSESSMENT
Testing and Assessment capabilities are bundled with THINQ LMS. Testing gauges learners' reaction to particular learning experiences and helps to record changes that occur in learners' knowledge, skills and attitudes as a result of learning experiences.
When you create and manage tests within the LMS, you can:
* Design tests of all varieties, including random question generation, question bank creation and instant feedback and scoring
* Designate tests as pre, post or evaluations
* Add test to your THINQ LMS Catalog
* Assign tests and assessments to learners, managers and instructors based on individual needs, specific profiles or competencies and specific jobs
* Direct learners back to the LMS, once the test is completed
* Provide direct access to testing authoring and administration right from the LMS
* Identify the most appropriate learners for a particular task or job
* Determine which learning activities would be most valuable for a single individual or groups of individuals.
Testing ensures that learners, managers, and administrators have precise indications of your test-taker's knowledge levels. Without this important capability, this type of knowledge is nearly impossible to obtain.
As you develop your strategy for testing and assessment, you might want to consider severa
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A Metadata Standard for Learning Objects
As learning objects grow in number and importance, institutions are faced with the daunting task of managing them. Like familiar items in library collections, learning objects need to be organised by subject and registered in searchable repositories. But they also introduce special problems. As computer files, they are dependent on a particular hardware and software environment. And as materials with a pedagogical intent, they are associated with metrics such as learning objectives, reading levels and methods for evaluating student performance. The conventional wisdom is that a learning object should be accompanied by a metadata record, whose minimal form would contain the information typically found in the description of a book or journal article, such as title, author, subject, and a unique identifier. But a more complete record would describe the technical and educational context required to activate the learning object and connect it with others to create a rich educational experience for an appropriate audience.
. . Which elements are most widely adopted? Can a viable record be assembled from the most popular elements-i.e., one which would describe the unique characteristics of learning objects, or at least support discovery and harvesting?
. What are the prospects for interoperability in a complex metadata scheme that consists entirely of optional elements?
. What can be learned about the motivation for developing an application profile-either from the coded data or the supporting documentation? Should the LOM standard be revised?
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Organizations tend to look at content management as content that's good enough for outside folks, while they refer to knowledge management as the sharing of knowledge primarily by inside folks. We think the time is ripe for a collision. A blend of content management systems and knowledge management tactics may provide just the combination a company needs. By examining the following points of overlap between content management and knowledge management, companies can leverage that overlap to boost immediate ROI.
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The x.hlp Adaptive Learning Suite is a family of tightly integrated software products that combine to enable organizations to effectively train, test, support, and track users of their mission-critical software applications.
The unique quality of x.hlp Adaptive Learning Suite is that it provides enterprise-wide training and performance support in a format that engages employees and customers - and which is easily modified to mirror the changing needs of an evolving organization. ALS Version , x.hlp's latest release, contains significant enhancements for both content creators and subject matter experts, and for end users and learners.
With the x.hlp Adaptive Learning Suite you can:
* Deploy content based on learner profiles and rights, and track learner performance and progress
* Seamlessly integrate your x.hlp content with your existing eLearning infrastructure
* Create attractive and customized learning modules in hours or less
* Accelerate the learning process and reduce application adoption timeframes through linear and branched simulations and tests
* Enable subject matter experts to efficiently capture and cascade their knowledge to your employees and customers quickly
* Support employees through every stage of the learning cycle by producing classroom tutorials, performance checks, on-demand help, and call-center assistance
* Enable employees and other end-users to learn a particular process or application thoroughly, at their own pace, with interactive simulations that graphically direct them through each step
* Help learners whenever and wherever they need it with context sensitive online reminders that visually demonstrate specific tasks
* Easily edit your training content to ensure that it's always up to date and complete
What's New in ALS :
* Create linear and branched simulations and tests, enabling learners to explore multiple pathways to the end solution
* Automatically import application data from a variety of sources including remote PC's, Pocket PC, PowerPoint presentations, and more
* Quickly create Word-template based documentation directly from all lesson and course content
* Create post-training support Guides, which run within learner browsers with no plug-ins or client side software required
* Deploy content and tracker learner actions using learner profiles, management reporting tools, and course content management tools
* Publish content for Learning Management Systems using AICC and SCORM (., .) industry standards
* Generate multimedia output for learners using high-quality audio compression, saving valuable bandwidth while providing a rich environment for learning
x.hlp Adaptive Learning Suite consists of the following products:
* x.hlp Designer, helps you create learning modules and courses fast and efficiently
* x.hlp Guides, intuitive graphical help files that effectively 'walk a user through' the successful completion of a task.
* x.hlp Learning Manager tracks the learning process, allowing valuable performance data to be extracted using existing reporting technologies
* x.hlp LMS Integrator, for seamless publishing to existing Learning Management Systems
* x.hlp Assistant, a powerful Performance Support System that enables the creation of context sensitive assistance to almost any software application
* x.hlp Content Publisher deploys the modules and courses rapidly to LAN, web, desktop and CD
* x.hlp Course Content Manager makes it easy to efficiently reuse learning modules across numerous courses | |
