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Learning
Space
LearningSpace
allows you to offer distributed learning courses that
students and instructors can access whether they are
online or off-line. Since LearningSpace courses are
designed to be taken in your own time and from anywhere,
learners benefit from the thoughtful interaction of
all students in the course rather than relying on just
those able to meet the schedule requirements of traditional
face-to-face courses. An enhancement or alternative
to traditional instruction, LearningSpace provides equal
learning opportunities to all employees and students
without limitations of time or place.
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Features
Include:
Five
collaborative learning modules combine to deliver an integrated
environment that supports team-based, instructor-facilitated
learning. These include:
Schedule:
A means of structuring course assignments. Students navigate
through the course's learning objectives, check assignment
deadlines, review the course syllabus and more. New R2.5 enhancements
give the instructor more control over the course. Some of
these features include:
- Customisable
Welcome Pages
- Variety
of graphical icons from which to select in order to categorise
assignments
- Ability
for instructor to enable/disable CourseRoom discussion buttons
- Ability
to preserve links to MediaCenter and CourseRoom when copying
courses
MediaCenter:
The knowledge-base of the course. Populated by the instructor
with content related to the curriculum being delivered, it
can contain any and all multimedia including audio, video,
presentations, text-based info, materials on CDs or CBTs,
as well as access external sources such as HTML pages from
the World Wide Web. New instructor course development features
for R2.5 include:
- Ability
to easily incorporate multimedia, graphics and Web links
into courses without knowledge of HTML programming
- Variety
of graphical icons that allow instructors and developers
to categorise resources
- Ability
to hide CourseRoom and annotation buttons
CourseRoom:
An
interactive, facilitated environment for secure student/team,
student/peer and student/instructor collaboration. It is the
'virtual' classroom where, after receiving assignment objectives
in the Schedule and reviewing the appropriate resources in
the MediaCenter, students can separate into teams to participate
in discussions or work on assignments. New features include:
- Simplified
views of assignments
- Easier
distinction between discussions and assignments
- Private
student-to-student and instructor-to-student discussions
- Enhanced
assignment grading tools
Profiles:
A
repository of student created "home pages" designed
to facilitate the creation of the online community and group
dynamics that supports effective team collaboration. It is
a collection of student and instructor descriptions that includes
photographs, contact information and background on education,
experience and interests. New features include:
- Individual
student portfolios to store returned assessments and assignments
- Ability
to keep phone and address information confidential
- Optional
use of nicknames for on-line identification
- Links
to favourite Web sites
- Ability
to add a photo to personal profile over the Web
Assessment
Manager:
A
student evaluation and management tool designed for instructor
use only. Instructors quickly and easily create quizzes, exams,
surveys or self-assessments and then post them for student
access in the Schedule. Assessments completed by the students
are returned to the Assessment Manager for automatic grading,
summarisation and private review by the instructor. Graded
assessments are returned to the students' portfolio. This
module also acts as a gradebook for tracking student's progress
and has a test bank repository of questions. For Release 2.5,
the Assessment Manager has been completely restructured. New
R2.5 structure and features include:
- A
revised question-based approach
- Ability
to randomise questions so each student gets a unique assessment
- Ability
to track assessment time and prevent students from taking
multiple assessments
- Categorised
questions for quick and easy reference when creating assessments
- Ability
to import questions from test banks
- Ability
to return corrected assessments to student portfolio
- Quick
Grade' feature to auto-grade and record assessments
Minimum
System Requirements:
Learning
Space 4.0 Core
- Intel
Pentium II 500 or higher
- 256
megabytes RAM (512 recommended)
- NT
4.0 Server
- SP4
or higher
Learning
Space 4.0 Collaboration
- Intel
Pentium II 500 or higher 256 megabytes RAM (512 recommended)
- NT
4.0 Server
- SP
4 or higher
Clients
For Pathware
- Windows
95/98, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Database
Server
- Microsoft
SQL Server 6.5 or 7 on Windows NT 4.0 Server
- DB/2
version 5.2 on Windows NT 4.0 Server
- Oracle
7.3 or 8.0 on Sun Solaris or NT 4.0 Server
- One
megabyte of disk space per user in the database
Educational
Pricing:
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Space Server |
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Space CAL |
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