Sestri Levante (I), February 2013 - At this year's Learning Technologies exhibition, the learning-content-management-solutions provider eXact learning solutions outlined how recent advances in technology are making the personalisation and contextualisation of learning materials possible. In particular, it revealed key aspects of the latest version of its award-winning eXact learning-content-management system (LCMS).
The eXact learning LCMS was named as the Best Learning Content Management System at the Best of Elearning! 2012 Awards, held in the USA, before version 10 was unveiled towards the end of 2012. This version adds innovative features - including dynamic publishing, responsive XML and template-based HTML 5 authoring and DITA support - which are unparalleled by other solutions on the market.
In the future, LCMS architectures must be able to sit at the cornerstone of an enterprise's content strategy - interoperating with the HR, L&D and ERP systems that are already there - to personalise learning content on demand. In so doing, they'll develop a more effective and efficient learning-content ecosystem.
The recently released version 10 enables contents to adapt, in real time, to learners' perspectives and learning preferences - along with their skills and competency gaps, their location, and the available device to deliver the learning and/or support. It uses an open framework that allows users to develop and integrate their own learning authoring template sets.
The adoption of a template-based authoring approach and flexible publishing and delivery solutions allows organisations to achieve their goals, keeping the overall costs of eLearning under control. A careful analysis of an organisation's needs and the adoption of a template-based content production process and toolset is the first step towards ensuring the appropriate level of ROI for a learning organisation.
To improve the productivity of learning-content-production scenarios, eXact learning solutions has enriched its LCMS suite with a real-time rendering engine that, attached to the template framework, enables adaptive learning. In addition, the new version supports the management of learning-content creation and delivery for organisations that require a scalable, extendable modular system to meet high-volume, professional, and consistent learning-output demand.
For those requiring integration with a third-party learning-management system (LMS) or delivery portal, version 10 renders adaptive learning content on the fly and consolidates the same content objects in different standalone packages - such as a SCORM, offline HTML, iPhone and/or Android versions, PDF printout and so on - for further download, handover to an LMS, or other use.
eXact learning LCMS's templating approach and its embedded authoring tools - eXact learning Packager and Online Editor - combine the power of XML-based content modelling with the ease of use of semantic structuring and the flexibility of responsive-web-design (RWD) technologies such as HTML5. It also provides both rapid authoring capabilities and model-based automation of content production in different languages that can be delivered on different channels and platforms.
