PAST PROFESSION PROGRESS. 2007.11.30Railway E-learning Workshop2

PAST PROFESSION PROGRESSPAST PROFESSION PROGRESS

2007.11.30 Railway E-learning Workshop 2


Case Study:BGOK’s e-learning system

• SAP HR Learning Solution system

• Supports classroom and e-learning courses too

• Each BGOK course is registered there


BGOK’s E-Learning system I.

SAP HR LSO contains:

• Learning Management System

• Learning Portal

• Development tool - Authoring tool

• Content structurer - Repository tool



• E-portal is avaible on MAV’s intranet

• 12 500 licences

• Students’ registration to an e-learning course is also an automatic registration to an SAP HR system (catalogue of courses)

• The course outcome is (qualification) automatically added to employee’s profile



Weaknesses of the system:

• Can’t be reached via Internet (yet)

• MAV’s network system (shortage connection)

• Not enough computers avaible (Intranet)

• Different types of operation system


BGOK’s E-Learning system II.

Another way Off line CD

• Run the SAP e-learning content

• It looks-alike portal’s content player

• Automatically check and install the required softwares

• Run with different type of operation systems


The Online version


The CD version


Our E-learning Portal:


Parameters I.:

• Private registration (user – password)

• Core and elective courses

• Booking for clasroom courses

• Qualifications can be checked

• Personal Notes

• Searching function


Parameters II.:

• Students can set their learning’s strategy –

Personal learning progress

• Starts with their own courses (courses they

have not finished yet!)

• Course Evaluation

• Remarks can be done continously


Content player:


Content player features I.:

• Easy to use (not too many buttons)

• Table of contents

• Students can step over chapters if it is permitted by author

• Support to play off-line course


Weaknesses and it would be useful…

• More communicative– Students and instructurer forum - chat– Group management – files sharing

• Support the students – Interactive support with internal messages

• Knowledge database – like Wikipedia


Development tool – Authoring Enviroment

• Tool for creating and structuring learning content

• Assists the author to administrate and versioning the

learning content

• Supports different types of e-strategy (e.g. exercise or

example – oriented) - BUT better way

• Able to import and export SCORM 1.2 standards


Authoring enviroment vs. SCORM structure

Learning Nets

Learning Nets

Learning Object

Instruction elements

Content

Blokk

SCO

AssetContent source (html)

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http://www.adlnet.org/


Screen layout of Authoring enviroment


Features:

• Make learning strategy with graphically edited relations

• It contains assessment author

• Template manager

• Quality management with messages



• User friendly interface vs. Reusable objects

• Better design

• Less complicated directories

• More tools for creating pages (multimedia tools)


Structuring contents - Repository Explorer

• Contains:• Master Repository – only few authors have licence

• Local Repository – every author has licence

• Create learning contents with workflow:• Creating

• Uploading

• Authorizing the content

• Publishing


Screen layout of Repository Explorer



• Softwares Quality (unreliable upgrades)

• Better system feedback

• More useable layout

• Limits of the assessment tool (470 question)


Plans for the future…

• SAP HR LSO system upgrade

• Make exam for 10.000 employee at 2008 – On-line exams– Cd off-line exams

• Intranet Internet


Thank you very much for your attention!

Dobás László [email protected]


Groupwork 1(Railway training center point of view)

Questions1. Should it be compatible with e-learning standards? If yes,

which ones?

2. Should it be integrated with other IT systems?

Like personel administration, or event organizer.

3. Should it contain authoring feature as well?

4. What are the adventages (disadventages) of using off-line

(on-line) version?


Groupwork 1(railway training center point of view)

Questions5. Can it have cost effective licence system?

6. Can it be used for assessment examination testing?

7. Does it provide easy access for the students?

8. How it can support inter-students, instructors-students

activity?

9. Is it requires very sophisticated IT hardware and network

background?


Groupwork 2(railway students’ point of view)

Questions1. What are the most important requierements of the E-learning system from

railway students’ point of view?

2. What are the main tools that an e-learning system should contain?

3. What assessment tools are needed?

4. Can a student choose a different learning strategy?

5. Does it provide enough multimedia tools to help understanding?

6. Can the content be printed out?

7. Can the student contact other students or the instructor?


Groupwork 2(railway students’ point of view)

Questions8. Is their a way to test their knowledge before the serious exam?

9. Is their a way to test their knowledge before the serious exam?

10. Can it be used offline? Can the content be taken to home?

11. Can the student personalize the interface?

12. If the student is not an office worker can he still use e-learning?

13. Is it easy to use for a non-IT expert? Does it requires special IT skills?

14. Can the student check if he received the qualification?


Some advantages of our e-learning system

• Cheap way to study, effected way of examination

• Modern method

• Huge number of the students (10 000)

• Could help to improve employee’s knowledge by themselves (even at home)

• Flexible scedule


Some advantages of our e-learning system

• Good learning management

• Automatically registrate the courses

• Save Human resources for training center

• E-learning content could help better study with interactivity

• With animations student can get special knowledge (abnormal situation)

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PAST PROFESSION PROGRESS. 2007.11.30Railway E-learning Workshop2