One advantage of choosing to deliver training online via a learning management system or LCMS is the cost benefit.
Savings from online learning will come from many sources, including the relatively low cost of materials, travel, seat time, and administrative costs. For example, it generally takes at least three times as long to build e-learning material than it goes to create face-to-face training. However, depending on your needs, online training is typically quite cost-effective compared with face-to-face training.
The time spent by the learner in the learning environment (aka "seat time"), is one important source of savings when going the online route. Depending on the learning material, online learning usually has a pronounced advantage over classroom training in this regard. Research suggests a roughly 50% reduction in seat time when a course is performed online. This depends on the content, of course, but for most types of learning material it applies.
Your ability to change the format of learning material into many kinds of media (video, audio, text, etc.) is inherently time-saving. For instance, content is read about twice as fast as compared to its spoken form (for example, written text versus a lecture). Learning management system training, rather than allowing someone to do all the talking, allows learners to just read about it. Here one might argue for the interactive component of a classroom learning environment. Not to worry---we'll get to that in a minute.
Second, think about your audience when opting for or against online learning. Do your students already have experience with online learning? How can you make the training experience an enjoyable and effective one for your students? In what ways do you expect them to benefit from online training? And finally, how will a learning management system help you realize these objectives?
Develop and deliver interactive training courses with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Simple user interface, potent and cost-effective.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
New College Course Material Delivered by Learning Management System
Colleges nationwide have begun to implement a revolutionary system for delivery curriculum to their students with the Learning Management System. Specialty universities have already established successful distant learning programs that enable students to earn their degree by attending courses online. Interactive and state of the art videos and modules have been created to deliver the material in numerous different ways.
A current Internet Marketing Major, Jim Miller, tells us about his experience at Full Sail University, based out of Orlando, while he resides on the West Coast working full time and going to school. “It’s great because class is wherever you are. The convenience and flexibility of when you attend your class enables you to work your education around your career, which helps facilitate both endeavors”.
The Learning Management system provides a self service platform in which students can receive help in courses or on material they may have difficulties with. A 24/7 mentorship has been provided for students to receive that needed support to aid their comprehension on their assignments. However, with every upside there is usually a downside. Depending on the course or the Professor, requirements such as group projects, may cause difficulties as students struggle trying to set up a collaborative times factoring in different time zones, working schedules and less motivated students who opt to pull any of the weight for the projects. With that said, evaluations are constantly performed to ensure that the set up of the curriculum is effective and successful.
When asked to compare the differences between the quality of the Learning Management System in regards to curriculum and teaching of “in classroom” courses in comparison to online courses, Jim Miller states, “The only difference that I have experienced is that you are not physically in the classroom. I feel the quality of the curriculum and the concepts I am being taught are held at the same standard and uphold the same quality at any other University attending an in-person course.”Although other Colleges may not have implemented the all inclusive Learning Management System, signs of online learning components implemented into new curriculum are starting to become increasingly normative.
A current Internet Marketing Major, Jim Miller, tells us about his experience at Full Sail University, based out of Orlando, while he resides on the West Coast working full time and going to school. “It’s great because class is wherever you are. The convenience and flexibility of when you attend your class enables you to work your education around your career, which helps facilitate both endeavors”.
The Learning Management system provides a self service platform in which students can receive help in courses or on material they may have difficulties with. A 24/7 mentorship has been provided for students to receive that needed support to aid their comprehension on their assignments. However, with every upside there is usually a downside. Depending on the course or the Professor, requirements such as group projects, may cause difficulties as students struggle trying to set up a collaborative times factoring in different time zones, working schedules and less motivated students who opt to pull any of the weight for the projects. With that said, evaluations are constantly performed to ensure that the set up of the curriculum is effective and successful.
When asked to compare the differences between the quality of the Learning Management System in regards to curriculum and teaching of “in classroom” courses in comparison to online courses, Jim Miller states, “The only difference that I have experienced is that you are not physically in the classroom. I feel the quality of the curriculum and the concepts I am being taught are held at the same standard and uphold the same quality at any other University attending an in-person course.”Although other Colleges may not have implemented the all inclusive Learning Management System, signs of online learning components implemented into new curriculum are starting to become increasingly normative.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Make Your Course Connections with Coggno's LMS Training Marketplace
Coggno’s LMS Training Marketplace has just become a more interactive and convenient place to visit.
For those who aren't familiar with the idea of a courseware marketplace, Coggno's Training Marketplace is basically a meeting point for creators of learning content and those who wish to acquire it. The Marketplace showcases courses covering a range of training topics, including those created by top e-learning authors like SilkWeb.
Coggno's LMS allows users to create and deliver customized training solutions. Users can make training their own, with the option to display their logo as well as a unique color scheme. Course authors are also able to upload and deliver training for in-house purposes or syndicate their learning content for a wider audience.
And since Coggno uses a pay-per-use business model, it is easy to load and reload learning content as required for relevant, up-to-date training. The model allows organizations and individuals to gain the skills and knowledge they desire when they need it, within a period of time that they themselves determine.
With Coggno's new Training Marketplace up and running, learners and content Authors are able to leverage robust LMS tools combined with a smartly designed meeting place for the transfer of online courses.
Visiting the site, one first notices that the layout of the Marketplace has been completely redesigned. Does layout matter? you may ask.
When searching for just about anything worth purchasing, layout can be a deciding factor in whether or not customers can find what they are looking for.
For example, say you’re in the market for a new pair of shoes. A shoe store that offers a wide variety of shoes and a simple way of browsing its selection will be more successful than a store whose shoes are piled on a sales rack, or lacking in sales representatives, or without a very good shoe selection in the first place.
In the same way, an LMS course provider that lists available learning content in a way that is clear, convenient and easy to browse will be likelier to facilitate connections between courseware Authors and individuals seeking courseware.
With this goal of making more connections in mind, Coggno has recently announced the launching of its newly redesigned Training Marketplace. Coggno's new Training Marketplace will highlight courses and enhance their presence and optimization on the web, as well as display graphics for each course.
Design and syndicate robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, powerful and affordable.
For those who aren't familiar with the idea of a courseware marketplace, Coggno's Training Marketplace is basically a meeting point for creators of learning content and those who wish to acquire it. The Marketplace showcases courses covering a range of training topics, including those created by top e-learning authors like SilkWeb.
Coggno's LMS allows users to create and deliver customized training solutions. Users can make training their own, with the option to display their logo as well as a unique color scheme. Course authors are also able to upload and deliver training for in-house purposes or syndicate their learning content for a wider audience.
And since Coggno uses a pay-per-use business model, it is easy to load and reload learning content as required for relevant, up-to-date training. The model allows organizations and individuals to gain the skills and knowledge they desire when they need it, within a period of time that they themselves determine.
With Coggno's new Training Marketplace up and running, learners and content Authors are able to leverage robust LMS tools combined with a smartly designed meeting place for the transfer of online courses.
Visiting the site, one first notices that the layout of the Marketplace has been completely redesigned. Does layout matter? you may ask.
When searching for just about anything worth purchasing, layout can be a deciding factor in whether or not customers can find what they are looking for.
For example, say you’re in the market for a new pair of shoes. A shoe store that offers a wide variety of shoes and a simple way of browsing its selection will be more successful than a store whose shoes are piled on a sales rack, or lacking in sales representatives, or without a very good shoe selection in the first place.
In the same way, an LMS course provider that lists available learning content in a way that is clear, convenient and easy to browse will be likelier to facilitate connections between courseware Authors and individuals seeking courseware.
With this goal of making more connections in mind, Coggno has recently announced the launching of its newly redesigned Training Marketplace. Coggno's new Training Marketplace will highlight courses and enhance their presence and optimization on the web, as well as display graphics for each course.
Design and syndicate robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, powerful and affordable.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
LMS Sales Training for Sales Strategies of Today
The number of organizations using a learning management system to create and deliver online sales and compliance training to employees is on the rise. Why?
Sales strategies, and therefore sales training programs, are undergoing sweeping changes in recent years and even months. New sales strategies are a response to different factors including the economy (tough economy = difficult clients) and the different ways in which customers and potential customers are using the internet.
LMS online tools allow leaders of training programs discuss and demonstrate sales principles in an efficient and simple way.
Another great benefit of learning management system-delivered training is the interaction that is made possible between learners and the insrtuctor. Learners can contribute to discussions started by workshop leaders, role-playing and receiving coaching on telemarketing processes and skills. Because learners are given the self-paced convenience inherent to online learning, such online interactions are often a effective means of practicing skills than in-person ones.
Harvard Business School professor Mikolai Jan Piskorski has dedicated years to studying online social networks and how people use them. A recent post on the Harvard Business School blog discusses how Piskorski helps organizations develop strategies for leveraging social networks for profit.
According to Piskorski, corporate marketers struggle with how to use social networking to reach customers. The main problem is that execs think of online social networks as social media, and treat them as simply another channel to get people to click through to a website.
Then there is the shift from pitching to engaging a potential customer in a conversation. The ability to listen and respond to a client's needs, ask the right questions, and overcome objections by listening rather than pitching are increasingly taught as effective sales techniques.
Conversation-building and tapping into online social networks are just two examples of how traditional sales methods are being edged out, as new sales strategies are able to respond to factors such as new forms of media and new economic circumstances.
Online sales training for an organization's sales professionals and managers can be organized and delivered internationally, linking a company’s LMS to its various human resources departments and ERP systems, to perform multi-locational, cost-effective and efficient training.
A learning management system serves an important role in keeping track of tasks, goals, and learners’ training activities and achievements, in order to ensure that successful sales strategies are executed down the line.
Create and distribute engaging learning experiences with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Easy to use, robust and reasonably priced.
Sales strategies, and therefore sales training programs, are undergoing sweeping changes in recent years and even months. New sales strategies are a response to different factors including the economy (tough economy = difficult clients) and the different ways in which customers and potential customers are using the internet.
LMS online tools allow leaders of training programs discuss and demonstrate sales principles in an efficient and simple way.
Another great benefit of learning management system-delivered training is the interaction that is made possible between learners and the insrtuctor. Learners can contribute to discussions started by workshop leaders, role-playing and receiving coaching on telemarketing processes and skills. Because learners are given the self-paced convenience inherent to online learning, such online interactions are often a effective means of practicing skills than in-person ones.
Harvard Business School professor Mikolai Jan Piskorski has dedicated years to studying online social networks and how people use them. A recent post on the Harvard Business School blog discusses how Piskorski helps organizations develop strategies for leveraging social networks for profit.
According to Piskorski, corporate marketers struggle with how to use social networking to reach customers. The main problem is that execs think of online social networks as social media, and treat them as simply another channel to get people to click through to a website.
Then there is the shift from pitching to engaging a potential customer in a conversation. The ability to listen and respond to a client's needs, ask the right questions, and overcome objections by listening rather than pitching are increasingly taught as effective sales techniques.
Conversation-building and tapping into online social networks are just two examples of how traditional sales methods are being edged out, as new sales strategies are able to respond to factors such as new forms of media and new economic circumstances.
Online sales training for an organization's sales professionals and managers can be organized and delivered internationally, linking a company’s LMS to its various human resources departments and ERP systems, to perform multi-locational, cost-effective and efficient training.
A learning management system serves an important role in keeping track of tasks, goals, and learners’ training activities and achievements, in order to ensure that successful sales strategies are executed down the line.
Create and distribute engaging learning experiences with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Easy to use, robust and reasonably priced.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Natural Law Challenged with LMS, E-Learning Training
It may seem obvious, but it's something with which many companies considering a learning management system to deliver training are still coming to grips: Tough times mean tough clients.
However, many organizations are rising above that natural law. For companies seeking an edge in the competitive market created by the recession, online training can help tremendously with everything from cutting costs to training employees to be more professional and efficient.
Courseware developers are using all the available on e-learning platforms like Coggno--and an increasing number of these tools are applications offered by e-learning platforms.
Applications exchange partnerships help courseware creation toolkit providers help organizations create more feature-rich and low-cost training. On Coggno's LMS, Blueberry Software screen capture software is one such app that now integrates seamlessly with the Coggno learning management system.
Course creators who use BB FlashBack 2.6 to make screen recordings can now integrate the recordings with their curriculum, using Coggno's simple course creation tools, and then deliver training through Coggno's LMS. The combination of Coggno's tools and Blueberry 2.6 offers a more versatile and multimedia learning experience for trainees.
As an e-learning course creator, BB FlashBack allows you to record everything you see on your PC screen. It also records your commentary, PC sounds and webcam as picture-in-picture video to give your course content a personal touch. You are able to make a personal appearance in your own course, providing demos and tutorials to students. With BB FlashBack's user-friendly design and quick, automated recording steps, users are able to transform course content into a richer, more dynamic experience and give courses a more professional touch.
Using BB FlashBack, you have total control over what students view, so there's no need to rely on stock simulations or outdated demo in a training program. You yourself create, edit and apply it to your e-learning course. And employing Coggno's LMS which includes a text editor, SCORM publisher, question banking, video tool, audio tool and podcast producer, and assessment and quiz tools, organizations are able to provide feature rich training cost effectively.
Design and syndicate robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, powerful and affordable.
However, many organizations are rising above that natural law. For companies seeking an edge in the competitive market created by the recession, online training can help tremendously with everything from cutting costs to training employees to be more professional and efficient.
Courseware developers are using all the available on e-learning platforms like Coggno--and an increasing number of these tools are applications offered by e-learning platforms.
Applications exchange partnerships help courseware creation toolkit providers help organizations create more feature-rich and low-cost training. On Coggno's LMS, Blueberry Software screen capture software is one such app that now integrates seamlessly with the Coggno learning management system.
Course creators who use BB FlashBack 2.6 to make screen recordings can now integrate the recordings with their curriculum, using Coggno's simple course creation tools, and then deliver training through Coggno's LMS. The combination of Coggno's tools and Blueberry 2.6 offers a more versatile and multimedia learning experience for trainees.
As an e-learning course creator, BB FlashBack allows you to record everything you see on your PC screen. It also records your commentary, PC sounds and webcam as picture-in-picture video to give your course content a personal touch. You are able to make a personal appearance in your own course, providing demos and tutorials to students. With BB FlashBack's user-friendly design and quick, automated recording steps, users are able to transform course content into a richer, more dynamic experience and give courses a more professional touch.
Using BB FlashBack, you have total control over what students view, so there's no need to rely on stock simulations or outdated demo in a training program. You yourself create, edit and apply it to your e-learning course. And employing Coggno's LMS which includes a text editor, SCORM publisher, question banking, video tool, audio tool and podcast producer, and assessment and quiz tools, organizations are able to provide feature rich training cost effectively.
Design and syndicate robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, powerful and affordable.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Share Your Expertise with Learning Management System E-Learning Creation
One great way for educators to leverage their knowledge and expertise on a subject is by creating short lessons or courses for distribution via a learning management system such as Coggno.
Coggno's intuitive UI (user interface) and simple-to-use tools provide easy course creation for all educators, with no need for IT help.
We have to look at the tools that are available now on LMSs for educators and trainers. For example, using Coggno's text tool, video tool, SCORM publisher, template tool, audio tool and assessment tools, educators are able to easily and quickly create dynamic e-learning material either for in-class use or for publishing on Coggno's e-learning marketplace. And choosing from Coggno's apps such as BB FlashBack, Rapid Unison, and the Apple Podcast Producer, educators can engage their audience in active, visually- and audibly-interesting learning content.
Podcasts are one exciting medium, offering a host of pedagogical possibilities. Podcasts are convenient and optimally portable, and appeal to many different kinds of learning styles. They can be used to both supplement and reinforce course learning material, or renew learning activities. They can also serve as announcements, reminders, and updates to be heard by everyone using the learning management system.
In addition, many educators and trainers find that responding to learners' unique cultural backgrounds, interests, and world knowledge results in a more interactive and dynamic learning experience. A learning management system can be an invaluable tool not only for tracking learners' progress, but in providing an organizational and educational tool that caters to the needs of all learners.
On app, BB FlashBack, allows you to record everything you see on your PC screen, whether it be a video, game, web page, or simulation. It also records your commentary, PC sounds and webcam as picture-in-picture video to give your course content a personal touch.
Why not make a personal appearance in your own course? Provide demos, training CDs, and visual tutorials to students. With BB FlashBack’s user-friendly design and quick, automated recording steps, users are able to transform course content into a richer, more dynamic experience and give your course a more professional touch.
Develop and deliver interactive training courses with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Simple user interface, potent and cost-effective.
Coggno's intuitive UI (user interface) and simple-to-use tools provide easy course creation for all educators, with no need for IT help.
We have to look at the tools that are available now on LMSs for educators and trainers. For example, using Coggno's text tool, video tool, SCORM publisher, template tool, audio tool and assessment tools, educators are able to easily and quickly create dynamic e-learning material either for in-class use or for publishing on Coggno's e-learning marketplace. And choosing from Coggno's apps such as BB FlashBack, Rapid Unison, and the Apple Podcast Producer, educators can engage their audience in active, visually- and audibly-interesting learning content.
Podcasts are one exciting medium, offering a host of pedagogical possibilities. Podcasts are convenient and optimally portable, and appeal to many different kinds of learning styles. They can be used to both supplement and reinforce course learning material, or renew learning activities. They can also serve as announcements, reminders, and updates to be heard by everyone using the learning management system.
In addition, many educators and trainers find that responding to learners' unique cultural backgrounds, interests, and world knowledge results in a more interactive and dynamic learning experience. A learning management system can be an invaluable tool not only for tracking learners' progress, but in providing an organizational and educational tool that caters to the needs of all learners.
On app, BB FlashBack, allows you to record everything you see on your PC screen, whether it be a video, game, web page, or simulation. It also records your commentary, PC sounds and webcam as picture-in-picture video to give your course content a personal touch.
Why not make a personal appearance in your own course? Provide demos, training CDs, and visual tutorials to students. With BB FlashBack’s user-friendly design and quick, automated recording steps, users are able to transform course content into a richer, more dynamic experience and give your course a more professional touch.
Develop and deliver interactive training courses with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Simple user interface, potent and cost-effective.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Coggno's Learning Management System Provides Breezy E-Learning Course Creation
More learning management systems are focusing on making their user interface more accessible for the ordinary person.
As organizations' budgets are hit by the recession and finding reliable IT support becomes less cost-effective, it's critical that training and other e-learning objectives are possible to maintain without outside help.
Coggno is one e-learning solution that continues to show that although an LMS is a large and complicated tool, it does not need to be complicated to use.
Coggno has recently collected the responses from a customer satisfaction survey, whose purpose was to gauge customer sentiment, as well as the top issues expressed by users.
High marks for Coggno included ease of upload of curriculum, simple adding of new learners, and ease of reporting. According to the survey, Coggno's LMS was reported to be very user-friendly and straightforward. Respondents noted fast uploading from spreadsheets, as well as fast reaction times.
Dynamic and simple course creation tools such as text and video, quiz, question bank, text and video tools, template, assessment, and SCORM publishing tools are some features that Coggno offers to make course creation simple, efficient, and even pleasurable.
Easy customization was also cited as one of Coggno's perks. Using Coggno's pay per use LMS, you can make training your own, with the option to brand your content with your own logo and color scheme. Creating a unified and interesting theme will attract your learners' attention and aid them in their learning process.
Users can also give training courses a professional touch using tools like Coggno's easy-to-use video tools.
LMS providers like Coggno offer a range of user-friendly tools. Students can watch videos, simulations and screen recordings. They can complete comprehensive tests and assessments interacting with a simple interface.
Your user interface design should give your courseware system a unique look that's easy to navigate and read. It might be a 3D learning environment, a 2D animated interface, or a professional business-style interface. Of course, always consider your audience when choosing the best format.
Coggno's tools have a very easy UI, so a company doesn't require a technical person to use them to create and deploy training. Coggno's intuitive and straightforward user interface is not only robust, but flexible.
Develop and deliver interactive training courses with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Simple user interface, potent and cost-effective.
As organizations' budgets are hit by the recession and finding reliable IT support becomes less cost-effective, it's critical that training and other e-learning objectives are possible to maintain without outside help.
Coggno is one e-learning solution that continues to show that although an LMS is a large and complicated tool, it does not need to be complicated to use.
Coggno has recently collected the responses from a customer satisfaction survey, whose purpose was to gauge customer sentiment, as well as the top issues expressed by users.
High marks for Coggno included ease of upload of curriculum, simple adding of new learners, and ease of reporting. According to the survey, Coggno's LMS was reported to be very user-friendly and straightforward. Respondents noted fast uploading from spreadsheets, as well as fast reaction times.
Dynamic and simple course creation tools such as text and video, quiz, question bank, text and video tools, template, assessment, and SCORM publishing tools are some features that Coggno offers to make course creation simple, efficient, and even pleasurable.
Easy customization was also cited as one of Coggno's perks. Using Coggno's pay per use LMS, you can make training your own, with the option to brand your content with your own logo and color scheme. Creating a unified and interesting theme will attract your learners' attention and aid them in their learning process.
Users can also give training courses a professional touch using tools like Coggno's easy-to-use video tools.
LMS providers like Coggno offer a range of user-friendly tools. Students can watch videos, simulations and screen recordings. They can complete comprehensive tests and assessments interacting with a simple interface.
Your user interface design should give your courseware system a unique look that's easy to navigate and read. It might be a 3D learning environment, a 2D animated interface, or a professional business-style interface. Of course, always consider your audience when choosing the best format.
Coggno's tools have a very easy UI, so a company doesn't require a technical person to use them to create and deploy training. Coggno's intuitive and straightforward user interface is not only robust, but flexible.
Develop and deliver interactive training courses with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Simple user interface, potent and cost-effective.
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