Learning platform for elective learners
16 Jan 2012
by: Margaret Snell
Omniplex, the UK and European distributer of the Absorb Smartlab learning platform produced by Blatant Media Corporation, claims that this product is to ‘elective’ training what the learning management system (LMS) is to mandatory training.
Smartlab is a hosted application, available for learners to access globally, which incorporates social media in addition to course delivery, contests, FAQs, surveys and more. It aims to encourage people to learn because they want to, not because they have to.
Matthew Lloyd, managing director of Omniplex, said: “While the traditional LMS is designed for dealing with regulatory, compliance-based, mandatory training, SmartLab has been designed to engage with and motivate audiences who have a choice about whether or not to learn.”
With this elective audience in mind SmartLab includes competitions, scrolling latest-news panels, and videos on the login page. Everything in SmartLab is configured through the Absorb LMS - including full HTML authoring of news stories and additional content.
The Absorb LMS’s reporting and organisational capabilities are also available to the SmartLab administrator. This includes providing the automation for enrollment, catalogue availability, certificate management and the various reports expected of an LMS.
Omniplex’s Stephen Miller said: ““Up to now, most LMS have looked like standard enterprise software applications. SmartLab provides a revolutionary approach to learning and development by creating an experience that resembles the sites people enjoy - Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and so on. The chances are that SmartLab learners won’t even be aware that they’re accessing information in an enterprise learning platform.
“Although your learners may be oblivious to the fact that they’re spending time within an LMS, your administrators will be able to track the improvements in the skills, performance, and knowledge of your workforce.”
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