News
IMC adds mobile and collaborative learning to learning management
system
11 February 2009
Learning technology provider IMC has launched CLIX 9, the latest
version of its award-winning learning management system. CLIX 9 offers
increased productivity by improving the management of training
processes. Key aspects of CLIX 9 include mobile and collaborative
learning, optimised resource management and a data-warehouse to generate
business relevant reports.
For mobile workers, IMC has established a new offline, Windows-based
tool, CLIX Learnbase, that enables learning material to be easily
downloaded and revised on a local computer. By using the CLIX Learnbase,
learners can work through their exercises without being connected to
CLIX or the intranet/Internet. Learning development is saved locally and
synchronised with CLIX as soon as the user reconnects. The new CLIX
Learnbase is a vital element to make the user's individual learning
processes more flexible.
CLIX 9 also enables learning groups to work collectively on
activities by allowing individual members to work on the task before
making the results available to the whole group. All members can comment
on the different working versions or use other CLIX services such as
virtual classrooms, chats or bulletin boards to communicate with each
other. On completion of the work, the tutor is able to provide feedback,
making CLIX 9 ideal for universities and project based trainees.
The new resource manager can accurately forecast the critical
resources needed for a given period through its modelling software
ensuring these are available before planning courses. At the same time
CLIX 9 reduces the number of steps that is required to plan relevant
resources.
The product’s integrated data warehouse delivers significant analyses
to help HR professionals evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of
training. The datawarehouse ensures the transfer of data and evaluation
of training processes, including data from third party systems such as
SAP, which can be easily integrated to provide a truly holistic
analysis.
Dr Dirk Thissen, managing director at IMC UK comments: “The
interactive nature of IMC’s advanced learning technologies have allowed
learners to further enhance their skills and expertise, while trainers
can follow and monitor their progress. With CLIX 9, this ethos has been
expanded so learners can learn on the fly and from other learners, and
trainers can intelligently and effectively evaluate their progress and
its benefit to the company as a whole.”
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