My company is offering two new types of training services to clients. The first is Technology mastery; the idea behind this service is that we develop a training program for our clients on how to use our software. It combines, traditionally class room training, online training and on the job training. One means of tracking and ensuring the delivery of training would be to create an LMS for our clients. That way both my company and our client can review to participant’s progress through training and suggest tweaks to their program to ensure success. The other use for a LCMS would be as part of the spin off of my AR project which is the creation of challenge based courses. LCMS would be valuable during the course development process.
However I firmly believe that training needs to be a combination of online and traditional training. LMS or LCMS systems that rely heavily on elearning are doomed fail. The lack of human interaction reduces learning because of the lack of a community. Also human being are quite adept at fooling systems and there are countless accounts poor failed implementation of these systems.
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"Also human being are quite adept at fooling systems and there are countless accounts poor failed implementation of these systems."
ReplyDeleteHow true! We use different types of e-learning software in our school and you would not believe or maybe you do the many ways 4th and 5th graders learn to cheat the system. In my reading about these systems there is not much research on how these systems take this into account. There is not much on accountability of the learner to honest in their learning.