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Organisation 2

An Australian organisation that currently employs 1,000 people in Sydney only – 2 locations, head office in North Sydney – mainly sales and marketing, finance and administration personnel, and Auburn – the factory and distribution centre.

The training function is based in Auburn and is handled mainly by the line managers and supervisors. The Director of HR (based in North Sydney) is very enthusiastic about implementing e-Learning but is concerned about learner readiness. The organisation has a sophisticated HRIS system and the employees have all been trained to access their information in the system.  The Director of HR thinks the introduction of an LMS would be the next step in e-Learning implementation strategy but is concerned about the cost. 

He has asked you to prepare a report outlining the benefits of purchasing an LMS. However, he has also asked you to outline the value of an LCMS – perhaps it would be better?

There are some key issues to consider in this case study, predominately:

 * Learner readiness

 * Cost of LMS vs the benefit

 * Diversity of learners

 * Alternatives to an LMS

 * Do they need an LCMS?

A Learner Management System (LMS)  can be used to track the learning of staff across an organisation. The Introduction of Learner Content Management Systems (LCMS) allows for learning objects to be stored within the database, allowing not only for learner’s progress, results and learning profile to be tracked but also providing a strorage facility for the learning content. Typically, A LCMS comes with simple authoring tools so content (learning objects) can be developed in house and stored within the LCMS.

AICC & SCORM are two different  strandards governing the interoperability of software and technology that is used for training and e-learning.

AICC wants the aviation training community to get the best possible value for its technology-based training dollar. The only way that this is possible is to promote interoperability standards that software vendors can use across multiple industries

SCORM 2004 continues to build upon a common Web-based “Content Aggregation Model” and a “Run-Time Environment” for learning content. SCORM continues to build up ITS collection of specifications and standards adapted from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive suite of e-learning capabilities that enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of Web-based learning content.