The adaptive assessment and e-learning tool
LearnITy, is an online learning system that assesses a student's answers and gives the result within 10 minutes and also helps the student overcome any deficiency in knowledge. This has been developed by a team of researchers at Kolkata's Jadavpur University in India in collaboration with an American university.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is using it to support the project assessment of EDUSAT, India's satellite exclusively for education. Sun Microsystems and IBM too have begun using it.
Components of LearnITy
The LearnITy solution comprises of 6 components:
The LearnITy LMS/LCMS - This product consists of a number of modules like:
Engine - The engine accesses learning content, course structure information, course meta information, learning strategy information, and learner records in order to provide the learners with the learning experiences that is appropriate to his/her learning style and learning strategy. The Engine works with any type of content, e.g., MS Word, MS Powerpoint, PDF, HTML, Flash, etc. Content is delivered through a portal that is a rich browser based GUI (fully customisable) that provides a single point of access to content, collaboration, and services.
Administrator - This is a course management, deployment, tracking and reporting system. It is provided to institution so that the entire eLearning function may be efficiently managed. Training administrators have access to a personalised account that allows them to assign and track learners, to assign specific courses to learners, and to monitor, measure and report on all account activity; both at the organisational and individual level.
Designer - A component that is used to create reusable learning objects (for incorporation into multiple training contexts) and WWW based virtual courses. This is used in an off-line mode (without requiring an on-line connection with the LearnITy servers) and the various outputs produced by the tool are later up-loaded to the LearnITy Repository using the LearnITy Administrator.
EkSathe - This is a asynchronous collaboration module including Online Notice Boards, Online Forums (Threaded Discussion Groups), and Shared Calendar.
The LearnITy Assessor - This is used to implement online testing and evaluation.
The LearnITy Virtual Classroom - It is ideal for interactive and engaging learning in which the teacher wants to retain the human element of interaction while benefiting from delivering real-time multimedia communications. This supports collaborative learning where participants can work as a group and collaborate on ideas, communicating with both teacher and each other via textual messages, whiteboard, voice, and streaming video.
The LearnITy Course Management System - This is a software module that brings Web-based automation to many of the administrative aspects of teaching. By using the CMS for the course’s organization, the purpose of class time would be almost exclusively devoted to discussion and student activities.
The LearnITy Training Management System - A Training Management System (TMS) is a software module that facilitates tracking and management of training events and features automated collection, analysis, and interpretation of training data. A Skill Management System is used to define and manage the organisational skill sets, staff competence in those skills, providing top management with strategic inputs regarding staff development and hiring.
The LearnITy Digital Knowledge Library - This is an innovative product that provides under a single umbrella all electronic library requirements like Digital Library, e-Journals, e-Books, Online Databases, etc.
What is unique about LearnITy
- LearnITy is not biased towards any particular learning theory or instructional strategy. Instead of hard-coding any particular strategy or implementing any particular theory in the source code, the unique feature of externalisation of the instructional strategies in XML notation enables the system to support an infinite variety of instructional strategies.
- Most organisations have a rich collection of content in various areas such as Sales Training, Management Training, etc., in various formats such as Microsoft Word files, PowerPoint presentations, etc. LearnITy makes it possible to make use of any existing source of content.
- It has been developed to work on any platform that supports Java.
- LearnITy has a much lower cost of ownership compared to other products.
A demo of the tool can be requested at:
enq@aunwesha.com
More about LearnITy can be available at:
http://www.aunwesha.com/
