Innovation for Learning: Moodle - LMS / VLE and the iPathway Story

In the history of the Virtual Learning Environment of Learning Management System; we are perhaps now on the third genaration of platform.

Some of the newer platforms are taking on more of an e-portfolio approach and some focus more on the Social or Content Management aspects of the chosen application than specific formal learning .

Our view is shaped by what our clients desire but we do have a wealth of experience that makes this choice a lot easier to make.

We can advise on technicalities and can supply consultation only if this is all that's required.

We are at our best when we are supplying an overall solution that meets the requirements; usually something that must be highly configurable - both from a marketing perspective and also a course management and trainer perspective.

This means that a platform would be modular and feature a number of plug-ins designed to support ease of use with internal and external users and also back-office staff, trainers and administrators.

Examples of these plug-in modules are Records Management, Course Management, Licence Management, (for the tracking and supply of courses externally) Personal Development Planning, Continual Personal Development (CPD), Prior Learning Recognition and Assessment; all along with diagnostic assessment modules which are not normally included within the requirements of an e-learning platform.

Other provisons such as shopping cart and payment provisons; multiple language support, specific web services and Single Sign on Modules are all options that can make a VLE a genuine success.

 

If you add up all these requirements they all create the need for a sophisticated product that can fill in all those gaps. We've called this solution iPathway - we've now provided this to a number of organisations both large and small and with and without some of the modules described. This just demonstrates the flexibility of  iPathway.