LearnBank thinks the most dramatic learning happens through real-life and experience. In the real Internet world, people have touched or been touched by numerous applications of Web2.0. Therefore, LearnBank does not just sit and wait, but try all means to bring the benefits of Web2.0 to e-Learning. I will describe how LearnBank thinks about e-Learning 2.0 and what we have developed to support learning needs of individuals. I will also introduce the reference sites of e-Learning2.0 created by LearnBank.
People have talked a lot about e-Learning 2.0. A lot of them just use the eL 2.0 buzzword to grab people’s attention. LearnBank Education Group,however, has been dedicated to developing learning services and learning solutions, and has been working in the creation of accredited e-Learning courses with many famous universities such as Tsinghua University in Beijing, Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, Chengchi University, Stony Brook state university of New York, and National Project Management Association (NPMA). Therefore, LearnBank understands how learners, faculty, and operators interact, learn, teach, and manage on a cyber campus.
LearnBank thinks e-Learning 2.0 brings the most exciting, opportunity for education groups. There are some innovations e-Learning 2.0 brings to help education institutes, colleges, training centers：
1. E-learning 2.0 Campus provides more interaction,
2. E-learning 2.0 makes it easier to manage the communication between faculty and student,
3. Everyone can be a publisher; everyone can be both a teacher and a student.
4. E-learning 2.0 gets everyone involved in the class at the same time no matter where they are.
5. Overall, e-Learning 2.0 stimulates more interaction
LearnBank found that students surf internet 30-49 hours a week but spend only one to five hours studying on the e-learning platform. It is worthy of creating an eL2.0 application to increase the studying time.
Therefore, LearnBank creates Learning Agent, as shown in the picture below, to perform learning-related tasks for its users, once they turn on their PC. Learning Agent can gather information or process tasks in the background of PC. Users can study and do many learning activities inside and outside of the LMS platform. Our Learning Agent has created a new era of learning.
With the Learning Agent, it is extremely easy for users to log onto their online campus. All they have to do is click “go”, and then they can view their learning records, as shown on area A, or enter the online campus to view discussion boards, as shown on area C.
With the Learning Agent, users are always online, and they can have instant communication with each other about the course or assignments, as shown below.
Schools can easily make announcements to students via the Learning Agent. The Learning Agent provides an efficient way for students, teachers, and professors to interact with one another. To sum up, the Learning Agent provides the following benefits:
• For students/employees
– Communication: Messages
– Notification: BBS, assignments, meetings
– Monitor
• Status from Multi-courses and Multi-schools
• Which friends/classmates/teachers are online
• For teachers
– Notification: if someone has submitted homework, reports, or discussions
– Monitor:
• on-line attendees’ activities
• new posts of group discussion
• students’ progress based on status of content nodes
– Interaction:
• Communication with students, and sharing documents
• Discussion with assistants
To view an example , please go to sme cyber university
http://www.smelearning.org.tw/index.php
1. It is easier to manage the communication between faculty and students.
LearnBank’s LMS has been installed in more than one hundred universities and colleges, and have been used by tens of thousands of instructors and students. LearnBank’s LMS facilitates personalized learning and teaching by providing flexible combination of modules with assignments, tests, discussion boards, announcements, polls, surveys, and so forth. Below is the overall appearance of a cyber university.
Our e-Learning 2.0-compatible LMS encourages great amount of participation through personal portal and various sources of feedback from peers and teachers. It also enables effective operating via automatic mentoring mechanism. Besides, non eL2.0 platform act passively as shown below. Such type of platform does not “push” messages to learners like e-Learning 2.0 platforms do.
Please go to the Chinese2u website for an example. http://www.chinese2u.com/
Chinese2U provides exciting, practical and flexible Chinese learning. Students are provided with practical learning materials, and they learn by interacting with native speakers in authentic contexts. Most importantly, Chinese2U give personalized feedback and guidance to help learners master Chinese. Chinese2U cares about each learner’s progress. Teachers pay close attention to learners’ strengths and weakness and guide them toward excellence through the automatic mentoring.
2. Everyone can be a publisher; everyone can be both a teacher and a student.
The photo-sharing blog site Flickr and the video-sharing blog site Youtube are also well- known in the education field, for they provide valuable resources for students and teachers.
LearnBank Cityfamily- a learning community which allows users to post video content and provide comments. Similar to video blogs, the commenting function on Cityfamily allows feedback and annotations to an image. If you check out the abundant content on Cityfamily,you will see a community called CEC Club (Chinese English Club). This community uses combines a video blog and e-learning function.
For an example, please check out the cityfamily web site
http://event.cityfamily.com.tw/CityFamily/club20/index.php?sno=F067JT000005
As digital cameras or digital camcorders become more and more popular and video editing software becomes very easy to use, everyone can be both a publisher and a teacher like the master of the above-mentioned club. He uses a video blog to provide English learning courses and up-to-date information. The Club members post comments, questions, and relevant resource links to share their innovative use of web 2.0 in education.
LearnBank Education Group
LearnBank Education Group, consisting of Sun Net Technologies Inc., Rulin Education Inc.(China), and Sun NetInc.a(USA), offers a wealth learning solutions for our clients to raise learning effectiveness, strengthen competitive advantage. Our clients love to work with us because we understand how people learn and think.
The success of our Learning Management System along with our extensive experiences in production, implementation, and online operation, are combined to forge LearnBank’s core competence in e-Learning.
Platform
LearnBank provides WisdomMaster Learning Management System to help our clients manage and implement their strategic learning programs.
With four powerful modules—learning activity module, evaluation module, content management module, and training management module—WM allows managers and administrators to deliver courses most responsive to the needs of their organization and learners. WM also provides tracking/reporting on learning records, and facilitates personalized learning plans. LearnBank has launched Learning Agent, new Wisdom Master Pro, Leaning community video blog and future classroom. In the future, LearnBank solution will integrate all the activity and get everyone involved in the same class in the same time no matter where they are.
Custom Content & Consulting Service
LearnBank Content Development Center develops diverse and high quality e-Learning courseware for our clients, ranging from enterprises, governments, to schools. With our extensive practical experience in instructional design, LearnBank CDC is experienced in developing engaging, interactive, and effective content with a variety of learning components including streaming materials, Flash animations, scenarios, simulations, etc. We are dedicated to providing optimal learning experiences and results.
We also help our clients transfer traditional classroom curricula to online blended learning courseware. If you need to translate your content into different languages, our translation business partner will surely provide you the most professional services.
In addition to content development and transfer, we offer comprehensive services to help our clients successfully implement e-Learning programs in their organizations. Our consulting services include needs assessment, e-learning content planning and development, and e-Learning program implementation. Our consulting staff will share with you how learning is managed at both the enterprise level and individual level to achieve performance requirements. We work closely with you to design, develop and implement learning solutions to meet your strategic business objectives.
Certification Programs
LearnBank has been working collaboratively with many famous universities since 1999 in the creation of e-Learning accredited courses for advanced MIS degrees. With our accumulated success as basis, we render our “end-to-end” solution to other universities as well as associations such as Tsinghua University in Beijing, Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, Chengchi University, Stony Brook state university of New York, and National Project Management Association (NPMA).
Our services extend beyond the scope of providing LMS and may comprise of 1) curriculum structuring, course design and production; 2) website design and online registration mechanism; 3) admission and administration counsel; and customer service.
LearnBank has a lot of accredited courses including on-line EMBA programs, MBA programs, and management programs for middle or high level managers, and Project Management courses compliant to CPMP/PMP certificate.