Online Learning Systems and New Zealand Organisation for Quality (Management), February 2009 New Zealand Organisation for Quality (NZOQ) has teamed up with Online Learning Systems to offer their ISO9000 Internal Auditor Training course online. NZOQ recognized Online Learning’s expertise and track record in assisting organizations with re-purposing their paper-based training for an online environment. Check out NZOQ’s March newsletter article below: QNEWS – MARCH 2009 Online Learning - what are the benefits? Online learning, or e-Iearning, is now a well established and proven educational and business tool widely used in all industries, writes Paul McNab, Online Learning Systems Ltd. With the proliferation of communication technologies, such as personal computers and mobile devices, online learning is increasingly becoming a convenient, cost effective method of knowledge acquisition. If you haven't already experienced online learning, Paul has provided a list of some of the benefits: - Online learning provides immediate, consistent information enabling quicker time
to performance and competence. In a classroom you get only one chance at the
learning experience. With online learning you can repeat the learning experience
as many times as you like. - Online learning is naturally suited to long distance and flexible learning but it can also
be blended with classroom training by providing pre-course assessment training and
post-course material support. - Online learning is a mechanism to deliver learning and knowledge solutions that are
learner focused; on demand; delivered in short manageable segments; consistent and
relevant to organizational knowledge management. - Online learning enables the learner to reduce their personal training costs, such as,
work cover, travel, accommodation and child care, to name a few.
In recognition of meeting the changing and varied needs of our clients NZOQ are pleased to announce the online availability of our highly regarded Internal Auditor Training Course. This will provide our clients with the flexibility of self-directed learning. For further information contact: quality@nzoq.org.nz
Manawatu Defence Hub, Executive Membership, July 2008.
The Manawatu Defence Hub has invited Paul McNab as executive member to the Executive. Online Learning Systems have been active Hub members since joining in 2006 and owe their success with Pall Corporation to their connections and membership of the Hub.
“I was thrilled to be asked. We have made so many connections since becoming members and we get an insight into how the Military do business. Being part of the Hub was a move in the right direction and I am sure that my expertise, military background and knowledge of local and international business will add value to the executive.”
Success with the Property Institute of New Zealand, June 2008.
The Property Institute of New Zealand launches their online learning platform at their Christchurch conference and Online Learning Systems were there to support the launch.
“Fantastic”, and “job well done”, were just some of the praises from Institute Members following the launch of their online learning platform. This is because Members can now tap into an online learning portal to access property related courses at the touch of a button.
After searching nationally and globally for a Learning Content Management System (LCMS) that would meet their needs, the Property Institute chose Online Learning System’s LCMS, Knowledge Now™. Customised and developed to the Institute’s branding and specific administration requirements, Knowledge Now™ provides the Institute with a tool that not only delivers learning online, it also enables them to develop their online courses and report on learning progress. Company Director, Marcia McNab, is very pleased with the end result, “the Property Institute project is a real success story for us as it demonstrates how online learning can assist these types of organizations in delivering training to their Members in a timely and cost effective manner.”
IMC puts its feelers out “down under”, May 2008.
Saarbruecken, 26th May 2008 - With a focus on internationalisation, IMC AG, Europe’s leading provider of learning technology, is looking into additional, global sales channels. From 29 May onwards, IMC will be on the road presenting itself to prospective customers in Australia and New Zealand. Preparation for the tour was carried out together with IMC’s partner “Online Learning Systems Ltd” (OLLS), an eLearning-specialist in New Zealand. “We consider Australia and New Zealand to be a very promising market. Based on the results of the successful market research carried out earlier with our partners, we have decided to go on the offensive”, explained IMC Chairman Dr. Wolfgang Kraemer.
Top-class companies are on the list of interested parties for the IMC tour through the seventh continent. These include, for example, “Fonterra” the world’s sixth largest dairy, the fighter arm of the Royal New Zealand Air Force as well as the aerospace company EADS. The planned sales activities will focus on the Learning Management System CLIX and the Rapid Authoring Tool LECTURNITY. “A number of interested parties are already well ahead with their plans for purchasing a Learning Management System”, explained Stefanie Klein, Head of Division South East Asia-Pacific.”
The “Roadshow” begins on 29 May in New Zealand, with stops in Auckland, Wellington and Blenheim. It then moves on to Australia for its next presentation in Sydney and it will come to Melbourne on 11 June for its conclusion. “Paul McNab, Managing Director at Online Learning Systems, has organised a first-class programme with equally first-class customers, whose requirements match our product portfolio perfectly. We are very pleased to have found a partner with such as profound knowledge of the market”, said Kraemer.
Dr Taiyu Lin graduates and joins the Online Learning Systems Team, May 2007.
Congratulations are in order for Tai-yu Lin who has graduated with a Ph.D. (Information Systems). It is no surprise Tai-yu is relaxed about the whole affair given his list of qualifications; Master Information Science; PG.Dip. (Information Science) and a B.Sc., Hons (Information Systems). Tai-yu enjoys this significant day with his wife Shu Fei and their two children as well as his parents, who have traveled all the way from Taiwan to celebrate.
Along with Tai-yu’s graduation success, he has also joined the team at Online Learning Systems as ICT Manager and Research and Development Manager. Company Director Marcia McNab says, “I don’t think most companies in the Manawatu realize what rich resources there are at Massey University. These guys are up there, internationally, and they have contacts in industry all around the world. We spotted this rich resource and put our hands up to sponsor Tai-yu as a doctoral student for two years. We invested in him back then and now taken that investment further by employing Tai-yu, I am confident this move will take our company to a new level.”
Online Learning Systems and Pall Corporation, April 2007.
Online Learning Systems successfully win a contract as the providers of Technical Publications and Training Manual Plans to Pall (pronounced “Pal”) Corporation, Australia.
Pall Corporation supply filtration, separations and purifications technologies that are essential to industry. With offices in Germany, USA, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, France, to name but a few, Pall are the largest and most diverse filtration, separations and purifications company in the world.
Pall Corporation contracted Online Learning Systems to produce Technical Publications and Training Media and Management Plans for their portable water filtration units recently supplied to the NZArmy.
Through their involvement in the NZ Defence Industry Forum in 2006, Te Papa, Wellington, Online Learning met up with the Pall Sales team and soon started talking business. What attracted Pall to Online Learning was Paul McNab’s background in aircraft engineering and instructor experience with the RNZAF. In addition, they were impressed in e-learning (or online learning) and could see its huge potential in terms of training for their water filtration units.
After 18 months of working with Pall, Online Learning successfully completed the project in July, 2008. Paul says, “It was a great project to work on. It gave us the opportunity to work with such a reputable global company and to get our name out there. Pall technology is quite advanced, the units they produce are amazing, and we even got to work with the designer in Hamburg, Germany. They supply these units worldwide and customize to fit client needs, such a, cruise liners and submarines. Unbelievable.”
Online Learning Systems Sponsors Doctoral Student, May 2004.
It comes as no surprise to be told that the way we learn, including the way we learn online, is peculiar to us. The way we use software, navigation tools, and the selections we make, all derive from our cognitive make-up. What is new, however, in New Zealand, is the development of a cognitive trait model that can help revolutionise the development of e-learning systems by tailoring on-line learning modules to individuals.
Massey University doctoral student Tai-Yu Lin, is working with Online Learning Systems Ltd, under an Enterprise Scholarship research arrangement, to develop an intelligent tutoring system, which adapts itself to the memory capacity, inductive reasoning ability, information processing speed, and associative learning skill of the user. Apart from being more efficient in terms of time taken, the system aims to mitigate the risk of end user rejection by appealing to individual qualities.
E-learning has evolved from online lecture notes to more sophisticated tutoring systems but most are performance-based. This new cognitive trait model allows students to take more responsibility in the learning process by constructing their own knowledge.
Research is being carried out at the Advanced Learning Technologies Research Centre at Massey University, which is well-recognised internationally, under the guidance of Dr Kinshuk.
Online Learning Systems Managing Director Paul McNab says, “Our business is devising learning platforms to match business processes. For example, we produce e-learning courses for companies and educators so they can build the institutional knowledge of their staff, implement new business processes and then subsequently measure whether the courses are having any effect. To be able to accelerate learning processes and to make learning more attractive to individuals through the cognitive trait model, is to us, a very worthwhile investment. We hope that this cognitive model will not only take us into a leading position in New Zealand in our field, but also put us right up there, globally.”
Online Learning Systems modules make use of animation and attractive humorous features to encourage assimilation. For example, one animated safety course allocates total points at the beginning of the process, which are whittled down if incorrect steps are taken. The procedure is much like playing a computer game.
The two-year research project finishes in July.
Innovative E Learning Solution,
3 April 2003.
Manawatu's dominance in the provision of innovative education
solutions took another boost when local firm, Online Learning Systems
Ltd, won the task of providing the e-learning portal for the Business
School of the University of Auckland's "Developing Entrepreneurship
in Biotechnology Industry Innovation" project...
Led by Associate Professor Shantha Liyanage, the project has received a grant of $400,000 from Industry New Zealand to create a learning network to draw together businesses, research institutions, students, teachers, universities and the public. The aim of the project is to encourage students to take up biotechnology by creating lifelong learning paths that are considered essential if innovation is to thrive in New Zealand.
Auckland University's Business School turned to Online Learning Systems Ltd to provide an innovative solution to develop an e-learning portal over the web.
The company has developed an e-learning and knowledge management platform 'Knowledge Now'. Knowledge Now is based on the principles of reusable learning and knowledge content that incorporates the world-leading web based software 'Crusher'.
Online Learning System's Managing Director, Paul
McNab, says Knowledge Now is not just another "out of the box"
solution but a development environment that can be adapted to suit
a diverse range of end user requirements. The product has great potential
not only in education and business applications, but also in any field
where there is a need to communicate knowledge and information over
a wide geographical area. This may involve areas as diverse as education,
business or changes in compliance issues such as health and safety.
Already the product is delivering training nation wide (and gaining
interest from overseas) with the geographical spread of New Zealand
providing a good testing base for a world-beater innovation.
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