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Mar 11
2010
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As an organization at the forefront of the social eLearning movement we’re often asked what type of expenses an organization should plan on to implement a social learning strategy in tandem with the organization’s blended or eLearning offerings.
Clearly it’s a difficult question to address given the number of variables one would encounter.
Is course content readily available or does it need to be created?
How many courses? How many students? Is there technical expertise in house?
Do you wish to integrate with external networking sites? Do you wish to establish an embedded social network within your site for your students? Are you looking to add collaborative facilities and tools?
The variables are endless, and clearly with many products, the costs associated with integrating them into a platform can become quite large.
This is why we’ve created TOPYX, our fully hosted social eLearning software solution.
The TOPYX platform has built social learning tools that an organization simply enables and disables on their site. This includes Course / Student Communities resources with a wide range of collaborative tools. The communities are in fact a completely integrated social network for each individual course or class, whichever you prefer.
TOPYX also integrates a range of external social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Skype. Again, these can be easily enabled / disabled on your site based upon their applicability to your needs.
eCommerce is also embedded in the platform in case you wish to sell courses or ancillary material.
If one was to integrate the functionality built into TOPYX into a traditional Learning Management System (LMS), the costs in terms of people time and actual expense could be quite steep. If you combine that with the typical costs of the LMS itself, or the implementation and maintenance expense of an open source product, the costs becomes even larger.
Compare that TOPYX or TOPYX Lite, when all this is ready for you to use with a subscription costing as little as $499 (TOPYX Lite) or $999 (TOPYX) per month, with no per student or per course fees.
It’s an amazing value. Actually, it is the best value in eLearning software available today!
Feel free to have a look.
Join one of our upcoming webinars or take the TOPYX Test Drive.
Patrick Batty
Vice President, Academic Solutions
Interactyx Limited
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I look forward to their presentation, however, the third MUST DO can easily be addressed by forward thinking Chief Learning Officers and Leadership Development professionals today in order to Evolve from "Training Provider" to "Learning Enabler". While many organizations utilize their monolithic learning management infrastructure and dabbled in social networking tools to enable conversations, these efforts will not enable your organization to learn from your leaders or improve profitability through learning excellence. It is truly time for a solution that spurs Leadership Development that can engage all employees (local and remote), provide relevant context to solving business problems, and build a sense of community excellence.
At Interactyx, we're always looking to enhance eLearning and mobile learning. So, today I thought would be an appropriate time to review the newly announced iPad to see if we think it will become a significant tool in the corporate and academic eLearning world.
