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IBM Lotus Learning Management System Build a corporate learning environment that integrates with the dynamic workplace a
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Manage classroom-based and online learning activities, resources, curriculums and catalogs across your enterprise
IBM Lotus Learning Management System
Highlights Build a corporate learning
Employee training is an ongoing process. Today’s workers constantly need to upgrade their skills as manage-
Design blended learning
ment creates new procedures and
environment that integrates with
solutions that integrate formal
the dynamic workplace and is
policies. They must gain command of
courseware and informal learning
new product lines and technology —
part of your organizational portal strategy Provide reporting and tracking
new software and new applications. Execute your learning solutions
ness needs in government regulations
technology
and industry trends, such as manda-
for staff decision making and human capital management Develop competency-based learning solutions to help
And they must adapt to the latest busi-
with IBM, a leader in e-learning
tory compliance with the Americans Streamline corporate learning
with Disabilities Act (ADA) or OSHA
programs, delivering valuable
regulations. They must also be able to
training resources to employees
adhere to global business process
when needed
standards like ISO 9000 guidelines.
increase worker productivity and reduce training costs
At the same time, managers need to keep track of which employees have taken what courses, control escalating training costs and manage employee turnover. They must also make sure their employees have the correct skills and certification levels needed to achieve high performance and deliver solid results. Managing and documenting the training process can be a complicated endeavor — one that the legal welfare of your organization is resting upon.
The Lotus Learning Management System home page provides easy access to all of the user’s education activities.
business procedure. It should also support industry standards like the Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) and the Aviation Industry Computer-based training Committee (AICC), to help protect your investment in third-party courseware based on those standards. These standards allow you to build content that can be tracked within your system, while also allowing you to purchase cost-effective courses and course libraries off the shelf. An effective learning management system also lets you customize the students’ learning environments to their The solution’s authoring tool provides a simple interface for creating online courses.
particular interests, backgrounds or training requirements. The marketing
Online learning — guided courses
Manage all your learning activities
team, for instance, can have access to
that employees participate in over
at once
all the marketing training materials
computer networks — is an increasingly
The next step for online learning
while the finance department can find
popular way of addressing compliance,
solutions is to implement a learning
courses in their field of interest.
certification and other timely learning
management system to manage all
needs. Most likely, though, online
these training activities and resources.
The IBM Lotus ® Learning Management
learning doesn’t represent your entire
A learning management system can
System can help provide you with
set of training activities. You may also
also track and report on student enroll-
these capabilities — and by working
use reference materials, instructor-led
ments, schedule classrooms and
with IBM, you work with a strong,
classes, seminars and other resources
courses and provide a catalog of all the
reliable vendor to support your efforts
and activities to complement the
training tools available to a student. It
and provide services. The Lotus
training of your employees.
can also allow subject-matter experts
Learning Management System is a
to create courses in-house — your
scalable, flexible platform for managing
sales manager could train his sales
both classroom-based and online
reps on new products and your opera-
learning activities, resources, curricula
tions manager can introduce a new
and catalogs across your enterprise.
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Lotus Learning Management System
Create or modify courses to precisely
that can help deliver live, interactive
software helps maximize value for
match your needs
training to your employees, suppliers
various modes of training delivery —
With Lotus Learning Management
and customers. Courseware creators
self-paced learning, virtual learning
System software, subject matter
can reuse content and objects from
and collaboration or physical class-
experts (SME) can create their own
existing courses, saving development
rooms. It can also help your business
custom courseware. You can offer your
time. Preview and review courses by
meet training requirements for govern-
employees a far more customized and
others before publishing, so you can
ment regulations, certifications,
dynamic learning environment than a
make sure the content is appropriate for
accounting and enterprise resource
prepackaged course could provide,
your employees. And student assess-
planning (ERP) integration. The soft-
including audio or video and links to
ments are easy to create, helping your
ware manages the overall learning
external resources, including Web sites
employees provide valuable, construc-
system, including:
and reference databases. The Lotus
tive feedback on the effectiveness of
• • • • •
Learning Management System
courses — helping to ensure that
Physical classroom support
supports popular third-party authoring
the student learned the intended mate-
Student enrollments
tools like Macromedia, ToolBook
rials and the content improves with
Reporting and tracking of activities
Instructor and Trivantis Lectora — so
each course.
Calendar and scheduling of tasks
your SMEs have many options for
Curriculum development and
creating new courses.
your employees
management
•
Delivering e-learning classes
Tailor the user interface to fit
Lotus Learning Management System
The customizable user interface (UI)
software also supports a vast library of
of the Lotus Learning Management
Lotus Learning Management System
SCORM- and AICC-compliant course-
System can accommodate various
software builds on the advanced
ware. So you can still use most of the
user audiences. One Lotus Learning
learning services and resources of
courseware that has proven effective
Management System can serve the
IBM to help provide effective education
for your employees — and that you’ve
needs of multiple student groups. Each
solutions. The software can operate
already purchased. Lotus Learning
organization within your enterprise can
within multiple platforms and in multiple
Management System software also
have a customized learning environ-
languages and can easily integrate with
takes advantage of relationships
ment — but regardless of the number of
other Lotus and IBM products to help
between IBM and third-party course-
environments, there will be only one
maximize its effectiveness across
ware vendors such as Harvard
backend system for your IT department
your enterprise.
Business School and TRA.
to manage.
Lotus Learning Management System solutions can help you create blended learning solutions that combine selfpaced instruction tools with traditional classroom training or IBM Lotus LearningSpace® - Virtual Classroom — a cost-effective, Web-based solution
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The segmentation functionality of the
Reports based on curricula, profiles and
Lotus Learning Management System
certifications offer managers the data they
allows fragmented user groups — users in
need to plan for project assignments, help
different countries or users with different
make promotion decisions and support
job roles — to view a unique UI with a look
career planning. Managers can track
and feel that meets their specific needs.
which courses are often used (and which
Lotus Learning Management System soft-
aren’t) to assess the value of third-party
ware can even integrate course content
courses. Auto-generated reports can
into a user’s portal, placing the crucial
update managers on a weekly, monthly or
information right where the user is most
quarterly basis — providing just the right
likely to use it.
amount of information as often as it’s needed to help ensure your courses are
Disconnected use allows your employees
effective. And managers who need infor-
to access the Lotus Learning Management
mation on demand can create their own
System even when they aren’t at work or
reports using a simple, intuitive browser-
connected to the Web. Users can create
based editor.
courses while traveling or download course materials to use offline. Once online
The right solution for your enterprise
again, users can upload their course work
The Lotus Learning Management System
back to the Lotus Learning Management
solution can help make it simple for admin-
System. Your employees can use your
istrators, managers and students to use
online learning environment anywhere,
and customize your education efforts for
at any time.
their specific needs. Consulting services
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from IBM can help you assess your needs Track the effectiveness of your
and build an effective learning environ-
training efforts
ment to meet them. The scalability and
With the tools available in the Lotus
reliability of Lotus software combined with
Learning Management System solution,
the stability and expertise of IBM helps
you can track and report on the effective-
ensure that the Lotus Learning
ness of training activities — including both
Management System solution is one your
physical and online learning resources.
enterprise can rely on for years to come.
Create detailed reports about your formal learning processes (traditional classroom
For more information
or online learning activities) and informal
To learn more about how Lotus Learning
learning (from events, documents and
Management System software can help
experiences).
your business in its education efforts, visit: www.lotus.com/learning
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