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e-Courses: online learning experience

In 1996, there were an estimated 38 million individuals connected to the Internet. By 1998, the number of users increased to 82 million, growth of 116% over two years. The Internet population grew to 158 million by 2003. The 23% compound annual growth rate in users from 1996 to 2003 is significant. The number of daily activities and time spent online per individual impacted by the Internet continued to rise. As more individuals connected and became accustomed to the benefits created by eLearning, its presence will become commonplace. Therefore, the eLearning experience will be a new revolution to the growing Internet population.

e-Courses

CyberLearning e-Courses offer unique benefits unavailable from other self-paced training access providers. Each course we offer uses rigorous set of criteria. Our criteria include quality content, interaction, graphics, and interspersed questions, making learning fun, interesting, and effective. Our comprehensive curriculum is developed entirely in-house, and our courses provide the following features and benefits:

Add-a-Note:

  • Allows an Add-a-Note Editor to add custom notes to pages within courses in a given site.
  • Allows creation of notes that are bold, italicized, or linked to outside URLs (not within CyberLearning courses).
  • Displays lesson and page number as a link beneath the appropriate course and series title.
  • Allows a learner to see notes for that page or simply click a link and be directed to the particular page with the notes. 

Show Me’s ™ :

  • Allow learners to view a Flash video within a CyberLearning course. In the right frame of the course, the video starts and is accompanied by instructional audio. In the left frame, text dialogue matching the instructional audio is displayed.  

New Mastery Page:

  • Allow learners to determine easily if they have mastered a course or not. A new mastery page is replacing the last page of all courses (except the Getting Started course). Learners who have mastered a course will receive a page with congratulatory text. Learners who have not mastered a course will receive a page with “You’ve Reached the End of the Course” text.

 
Skill Assessment:

  • Generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test of your skills before taking a course. The pre-test identifies individual strengths and weaknesses, allowing you to take only the units you haven’t mastered.
  • Allows testing at any time and is available from within each course.
  • Tracks your scores by unit. Initial, current, and best scores are tracked. Scores are available to view on screen or for administrators to print immediately.
  • Provides a post-test. You'll know how well you've mastered the material once this test is completed.
  • Allows any CyberLearning course to be taken and your best score to be compared with the CyberLearning Mastery Level Score.  

Questions:

  • Challenge you with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
  • Provide constructive feedback for both correct and incorrect responses.  

Simulations:

  • Use the free Macromedia Authorware Web Player plug-in, enabling you to run the existing optional simulations found in CyberLearning courses.
  • Are multiple-step, with realistic screen representations, so you can see how the application really works.
  • Include hints and step-by-step instructions to assist you through the simulation.
  • May be replayed multiple times for a better understanding of the illustrated concepts.
  • Animated procedural simulations created with Flash provide an interactive, structured walk-through of a series of steps.  

Exercises:

  • Give you valuable hands-on experience.
  • Can be combined with the supplied sample files, allowing your new skills to be tested by completing an exercise within the actual application.
  • Include pre-bundled sample applets to run in Visual Basic (for our Visual Basic courses).  

Flash and Audio:

  • Provide animated, interactive Lesson Introductions, Activities, and Simulations.
  • Supply an aural feedback mechanism when questions are answered correctly.
  • Present new concepts in Lesson Introductions.  

Supplied Sample Files:

  • Include sample documents, application files, programs, and programming code.
  • Can be copied into a document or compiler, enabling you to practice with these files and save time by using them in a document or program of your own.
  • Allow code analysis and provide sample output, enhancing your learning experience.  

Course Topics and Master Topics:

  • Provide a quick reference tool allowing each course to remain useful to you. Each item in the Course Topics list is an active hyperlink, permitting quick access to specific topics.
  • Permits quick access to the tables of content and indexes for the entire CyberLearning course library. This makes it easy to locate specific information to study or reference.
  • Complement the course glossary, a great reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.  

Business Skills Videos:

  • Allow CyberLearning to offer scenario-based streaming video courses. These Business Skills Video courses map to the core business competencies of Organizations and their extended enterprises.  

Search:

  • Allows you to research a topic of interest in any or all of the courses you can access. This includes the For Dummies and Business Skills Video courses.
  • Enables you to rapidly search all text, including text within coding examples, to easily retrieve the information you require.
  • Allows you to expand your search to include looking for synonyms.
  • Includes stemming technology that automatically includes related variations of your search term in the search tool.  

Find-A-Word:

  • Allows a learner to select a word or phrase in the course content and perform one of four searches. (1) Search the Glossary; (2) Search this Course; (3) Search the Web; and (4) Dictionary.  

Accessibility:

  • Allows vision-impaired students to use a text reader program to read the text-only version of a course.
  • Enables students to access the various CyberLearning course features by using command keys to navigate, search the glossary, answer course questions, and more.
  • Fully compatible with JAWS 3.7 and 4.5.
  • Complies with all Federal 508 regulations and W3C’c WCAG guidelines.

Global Book Marking:

  • Tracks your progress in a course. The next time you access the course, you will return to the same location within the course. You don’t need to remember either where you stopped or how to return to where you stopped.  

My Preferences:

  • Allow you to modify the course environment to your personal preferences, including permitting you to change text size or graphical themes, and turn certain multimedia lesson components on and off.  

Description of New Course Features:

  • Provides a listing of what’s new in the courses from a link on the My Courses page.
  • Presents features in a tabular format with the most recent product release listed first.  

Course Completion Certificates:

  • Allow a learner to choose and print a certificate when he or she has mastered a course. Completion certificates now indicate the estimated number of hours it takes to complete the course.  

Delivery:

  • No downloading of course files is required before, during, or after you take a course. This keeps your local hard drive free of unnecessary files.
  • Each course page is a separate HTML file, making it easy on network bandwidth, and making it possible to navigate within a course one page at a time on demand.
  • Small page size (average of only 16k) ensures fast response time through the Internet, intranets, and local area networks without negatively affecting production network performance.  

SCORM 1.2 Compliance:

  • Allows organizations using SCORM 1.2 conformant LMS products to launch CyberLearning courses as SCORM 1.2 conformant learning objects. SCORM is a collection of specifications adapted from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive suite of eLearning capabilities enabling interoperability, accessibility, and reusability of Web-based learning content. 12/10/03  

Global Navigation:

  • Provides you with the same easy-to-use and intuitive course presentation through a Web browser (i.e. Microsoft Internet Explorer).
  • Provides ready access to key information, from a course glossary, to tips on using the courses, to technical support information. All of these are accessible using the Feature Tabs.
  • Allows a student to navigate through a course, answer questions, and take the Skill Assessment using keyboard shortcuts.

 Flexible Timing:

  • Means CyberLearning courses are ready when you are - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • Allows you to control the pace. Learn quickly or take your time.
  • Allows you to focus on what you need. Skip what you know or don’t need, or take courses repeatedly. It’s your choice.