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Evaluation: The ability to make decisions and to judge correctness, suitability, adequacy, or desirability of
information.
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Convergent production (sometimes called problem solving): The ability to synthesize new information from
given information to arrive at what is normally accepted as the best answer or outcome.
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Divergent production (sometimes referred to as creativity): The ability to generate new information from
given information, emphasizing the variety and quality of answers.
e-learning should also consider the thinking patterns of the students in order to achieve the objectives of learning to
bring required behavioural changes
4.0 Functional Requirements
Personal ized learner portal: This will provide the personalized entry to the system and views to the most
important personal information.
Course catalogues and registration: This enables learners to access catalogue offerings, register, and enrol in
the course.
Learner-records database, with user-profile.
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Learner records: contain stored information about the learner, such as job title, organization, location
and skills acquired. These cannot be directly edited by the user. Personal preferences, such as
delivery mode and language, may be edited by the user.
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Learner tracking: Learner tracking tracks a learner’s planned learning and progress through elearning offerings by recording the history, and current status. A learning diary can also track all
articles created and documents uploaded by the trainee.
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Skill gap analysis and personal performance reports visualize the actual skill profile of a certain user,
the target skill profile to e.g. reach a certain new position and the potential gap between these two.
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Reporting tools : With these tools we can access a learning plan/history for each direct report in their
reporting chain.
Assessment : Pre- and post-assessments are integrated with learning content to deliver a comprehensive
curriculum that provides feedback to both learners and managers and adds value to the overall learning
experience. Pre-assessments enable learners to study only the necessary material for a task at hand, saving
valuable time. Post-assessments provide results that are used to track completion status and are a key element
for progress reporting.
5.0 Learning Content Management
A Learning Object Repository which supports different granularities of objects, such as :
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Content Assets, which are the most granular type of objects. Content Assets are raw media such as
photographs, illustrations, diagrams, animations, audio and video files, applets or simple text
documents etc.
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Reusable Information Objects (RIOs) are classified as a concept, fact, principle or procedure and are
usually described by metadata which give some hints about the (re-)use of the object. To support
reuse, RIOs already contain metadata to describe them.
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Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) are data formed by assembling a collection of (ideally 7±2)
relevant reusable information objects to teach a common job task on a single learning objective and
are self contained, like e.g. course chaptersi. RLOs are the first level of granularity where it makes
sense to automatically assign its objects to learners based on their skill gap analysis. However this
The model e-learning system
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