Our Learning Suite

Learning in teams, and integrating learning in the context of workflow is the Best Practice of today. Creating learning and knowledge environments that capture and share expertise, allow for learners to access information on demand, and engenders communication with coworkers will be the norm of adult education. The group learns better than the individual. Our low cost extended enterprise hosted solution provides such a learning infrastructure that includes personalized workspaces, individual or group learning process definitions and creation of communities of interest.

Software
Our Collaborative Learning Solution supports all kinds of learning and collaborative processes. It is fully web based, with no plug-ins, and supports multiple browsers in a hosted envronment. Easy to connect with business applications (using the Process Manager: see under Engage!)

Functionality of our solution include:

Portal functionality: home page with log-in, browse public courses, news. Public content is accessable for visitors. You can navigate to My learning / My projects, My groups, My portfolio, calendar, list of activities and synchronous communication. You can start and build a collaborative environment with all kinds of Groups, Communities, SIG's. It is up to the Customer to select their synchronous tools such as WebEx, Centra, Elluminate, Go to Meeting or Futurecom

Learning Management System: Provide functions like take a web based course, knowledge documents, announcements, notifications, tests & surveys, polls, links, glossary, import/export content, assignments, WIKI and more. It includes administrative functions like user management, privilge management, tracking, notification management, mail, RSS feed, statistics, assignment management.

Workspace, ePortfolio & collaboration: : Provides functions such as peer groups / community with member management, announcements, forums, chat (with messaging transcripts), wiki, collaboration in one or more communities, inbox, calendar, library and drafting room

Wiki with edit, page control, RSS feed, links and attachments, etc.

Learning Suite

Process overview of the Collaborative Learning Management System

Basic platform

My Collaborative Learning (Home page) with news and navigation to courses, projects, groups, activities, portfolio and calendar. For visitors (not logging in) public courses / knowledge documents are available

Learning Management System with access to courses, projects, news, search, forums, chat (with transcript option), assessments, assignments (with feedback and scores), groups, import / export content, mail & inbox, glossary, links, polls, directory, wiki, and property- user (group) management, content (category) management

Multiple Groups: Collaboration & Workspace with news, forum, chat, (shared) documents / files library, drafting room (file management, versions, revisions, comments, lock/unlock), calendar, access & privileges management, mail & inbox

ePortfolio with same functions like groups but managed by the individual

Optional Functionality:

Virtual classroom / Virtual -meeting tool. eCommerce. Authoring tools in addition to LMS functions (creating Scorm objects). Tool for Competence scans - and gap analysis. Advanced content and digital asset management & publishing. Maintaining big numbers of complex multi-lingual Scorm objects for (technical) handbooks. Process modeler and Process -manager. Advanced search and personalized repository. Many connectors available to connect business applications and tools

We have integrated our Partner offerings that include:

Process manager to design, model, tune and manage processes like a learning process, a workflow and where relevant to connect with business applications. To provide dash-boards with report information. This BPM suite is based on the SOA architecture. The process manager is based on solid and proven technology. It has been delivered to over 30 clients to design, improve, audit, business processes. We are using the same technology for learning processes.

Competence scans and assessments: The CM process can be managed with the process engine. Based on the (business) processes, managed by the process engine, we can provide performance indicators on a dashboard.

Content & Digital Asset management: publishing SCORM objects, Electronic Publishing. workflow functions, assets and publishing of content development, maintenance and delivery.

Authoring: We provide authoring capabilities within our suite but you have the option of using any tool to publish SCORM objects in our environment.

We developed a unique process model to design, develop and deploy web-based learning and communication. We will deliver the content in a secure and scalable hosted environment. We have implemented a hosted solution with the following unique attributes:

Provide demo, integration and test environments

Deployed in a fully redundant production environment (7x24x365)

Highly scalable three tier architecture

We have a secured environment capable of supporting multiple customers

Ability to define a customized learning process linked to learning and knowledge objects

Ability to track learning and conduct certifications

Flexibility to utilize a wide variety of content authoring tools that create industry standard content objects for hosting on the platform

Digital Learning Solutions will be offering a steadily increasing mix of products and services. We have developed proprietary processes that support rapid development of elearning strategy through content development and deployment. Our focus is to help you align your learning with your business strategy and then to partner with you in developing and deploying the learning using our hosted Collaborative learning environment that focuses on learning by doing and learning in communities.

Most of our competition is restricted to using either proprietary software of their own or content they have acquired from other third parties. It is our goal to remain independent of any particular vendor product and take a neutral view of the available products and select the best of breed to provide solutions to the marketplace. This will require the flexibility to change and that is what differentiates us in the marketplace.

In the learning processes design we will use operational content from your organization ( emails, reports, stories, examples, plans and best practices from experts during coaching sessions) and we may build small (15 - 20 minutes) web based interactive, modules.

To make your learning more effective and to get your ROI, we will help you transform your learning from a supply-driven learning (pushing content from a repository, what all well know learning systems are doing), to a tailor made demand & competency driven learning processes model.

Provide learning consulting strategy and design planning

Rapid learning strategy, design and process definition

High availability hosted content delivery and collaboration environment

Content design and development using our Rapid eLearning development and the Story-centered curriculum methodologies resulting in lower content development costs (20-80%)

Promote integrated Learning & Working experience

Providing the capability to host learning communities and communities of interest

Close the HRD cycle by integrating Learning with Performance on the job

Measure performance on the job and design a PDP and relevant adaptive learning path.

The Internet reinvents itself every three months, or even faster. Our strategy for future development is to remain positioned with enough flexibility to adapt to new technologies, and adapt to changes quickly.

Our key competitive advantage is the knowledge and experience of the principals, their insights and experience in the distance learning industry. Strategic Alliances, to provide a cost effective solution, are a major component of our business model. We developed a unique process model to design, develop and deploy web-based learning.