What You Can Achieve with a Flexible LMS
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Jack McGrath President, Digitec Interactive Simon Morgan PADI Worldwide Session 101 What you Can Achieve with a Flexible LMS
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In this session, participants will see examples of custom features that can meet business requirements. You will learn what basic functions are needed in a learning management system, what the most-sought custom features are, and why there is dissatisfaction with LMS systems. Those who are in need of specific LMS features will get an idea of how they can be achieved.
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Jack McGrathPresident, Digitec Interactive
Simon MorganPADI Worldwide
Session 101
What you Can Achieve with a Flexible LMS
• LMS “Defined”
• Determining the features you really need
• 80/20 Rule: Achieving Flexibility
• Case Study: PADI
What you can achieve with a Flexible LMS
– Asynchronous e-Learning courses – Assessments, testing, tracking,
reporting, and measurement– Scheduling/managing
classroom/instructor led training– Student registration – Automating reporting and tracking– Student history– Supports industry standards, such
as SCORM and AICC
LMS “Defined” – typical LMS functionality:
Source: eLearning Guild 360 Learning Management Systems Report, 3/07
Top reasons organizations use an LMS
Hands-on Activity: Step 1. Initial Requirements
TAKE 5 MINUTES
List the functionality you think you’ll need in your LMS
Survey says…
“Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, classroom pedagogy was characterized by one-way, teacher-centered/text-book-centered delivery of single-media information to students whose role was that of passive receptor.”
Learner Requirements: How we’re taught
Source: In Search of the Next Generation Online Learning Environment. Becker, Henriksen, 10/06
Source: eLearning Guild 360 Learning Management Systems Report, 3/07, ‘”What an LMS Can’t Do”. Mosher
How & where we really learn
– Social networking– Weblogs– Video blogs– Games– Collaboration– Wikis– Twitter– Technology du jour
Web 2.0 Feature-mania?
When we need to learn
1. When learning for the first time2. When wanting to learn more3. When trying to remember4. When things change5. When something goes wrong
Source: eLearning Guild 360 Learning Management Systems Report, 3/07, ‘”What an LMS Can’t Do”. Mosher
TAKE 5 MINUTES
•Who are they? List your learner groups
•How do they currently learn?
•What is the environment and their constraining factors?
Hands-on Activity: Step 2. Learner Requirements
Technical Requirements:
The Use-Case for your stakeholders
Source: eLearning Guild 360 Learning Management Systems Report, 3/07
TAKE 5 MINUTES
•List your Stakeholders
•Outline the use-case for each to identify what features they need
Survey says…
Hands-on Activity:
Step 3. Technical Requirements
Achieving Flexibility – the 80/20 rule
1. Initial Requirements2. Learner Requirement3. Technical Requirements
Source: eLearning Guild 360 Learning Management Systems Report, 3/07
Prioritize all your requirements, then choose a system that can
deliver 80%
• The PADI model• The PADI learner
– Blended learning experience
– Learner connectivity• The Stakeholders
– Localized Dive Shop administrators and Instructors
– IT Integration
Case Study: PADI
Jack McGrathPresident, Digitec Interactive
Simon MorganPADI Worldwide
What you Can Achieve with a Flexible LMS
Thank You!
