Services overview
Learning technology strategy & standards consulting
services
Consulting services are available in areas such as:
Making sense of SCORM, IMS, LOM metadata
- Making SCORM and related standards work for you. In
depth knowledge of SCORM to serve your objectives, whether
it is in content or tools development, content integration,
or updating, choosing or specifying a LMS/LCMS.
- SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 expert assistance
- Repurposing content for SCORM conformance
- Adapting SCORM 1.2 content for SCORM 2004
conformance
- Reviewing and improving content design to work
effectively in various SCORM conformant runtime
environments
- Know which standards matter today, and which don't;
keep track of which standards will matter in the coming
months or years
- What conformance requirements are applicable to your
enterprise or project
- Conformance evaluation for content and delivery
systems.
- How you may be able to influence standards to help
achieve your goals
- Representing your interests, or acting as your eyes and
ears in standards initiatives
Alignment of learning technology initiatives with
business goals and requirements
- Requirements gathering and analysis with stakeholders
at all levels
- Accelerate time to deployment
- Evaluation of learning technology plans
- Assistance in preparing RFPs
- Evaluation of vendors and vendor responses to RFPs
- Long term follow up and course corrections
Planning and implementation of affordable but effective
solutions
- Explore cost-effective alternatives to expensive
solutions
- Leverage existing assets and systems
- Focus on what makes sense to normal human beings
- Functional specifications for best ROI
Strategic planning and vision development
- Brainstorming on priorities and goals
- Definition of realistic operational objectives
- Learning and competency management scenarios and
roadmaps
- Risk mitigation through planning for unavoidable
uncertainty
Instructional design
- Analysis and objectives definition
- Instructional design, matching instructional strategies
to types of objectives and to audience learning styles
- Ad hoc or systematic, object oriented design
- Design for blended learning
- Formative evaluation during design and
implementation
Orientation and training on learning technology
issues
- Orientation on learning management and related
technologies
- Jargon and terminology
- What matters and what does not
- Custom training to support your business objectives in
implementing learning technology
Standards-based integration of competency, content and
learning management
- Use and development of reusable competency definitions,
competency maps, taxonomies and ontologies
- Mapping data between different standards (e.g. HR-XML,
IMS).
- Metadata for learning assets and learning
resources
- Bridging between business competency requirements and
skill gaps on one hand, and training or training content on
the other hand
Alternative scenarios and out of the box thinking for
solutions to "impossible" problems
- Every case is different...
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