Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of eXact learning solutions, Australia, explained the new DR control panel. "HarvestRoad Hive Control Panel brings the most important features of the HarvestRoad Hive Digital Repository directly to Moodle 2 users. Without ever leaving the Moodle environment, users can now locate and view repository content, add new content, and make changes to existing content, all within the Moodle interface and all under the control of HarvestRoad Hive's built-in security system."

HarvestRoad Hive Control Panel for Moodle 2 complements the Moodle File Picker Plugin for HarvestRoad Hive, allowing course managers to link seamlessly to learning materials inside the repository.

Mr Cardinali adds, "This development complements other eXact learning solutions modules for online and mobile learning content-authoring environments such as the eXact LCMS and the eXact Packager authoring tool. Together, they enable Moodle authors to produce single-source, multi-channel, XML and rich media-based learning materials that enhance the Moodle experience."

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)'s innovative approach to achieving a global learning-content-management strategy was revealed in a recording of a webinar held in July and hosted by eXact learning solutions.

Introduced by Dan Cox, the CEO of Cox eLearning Consultants, a US-based analyst of new educational technologies, the webinar recordings are completed by a state of the art presentation on LCMS trends and solutions by eXact learning solutions North America's CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali and a case demo by Alessio Artuffo, eXact learning solutions North America's Sales Engineering Director.

Alessio Artuffo commented, "This webinar should be of practical interest to those wanting to discover how an LCMS solution can move their organisation towards innovative online and mobile learning; limit learning content-procurement costs through reusable learning objects; and help their organisation achieve improved workforce efficiency."

Issues covered in the webinar included

• the key drivers to a successful learning-content-centric strategy;
• enabling global collaboration of content-production processes;
• increasing ROI and decreasing time to production while maintaining high-quality;
• standards and consistency.

The webinar also covered how the adoption of an enterprise-wide content-management solution that is XML based, SCORM certified, and supported by multi-channel reusable learning object template libraries (RLOs) helps an organisation's content-development capabilities.