Ben Uzor Jr
Conscious of the fact that infrastructure, bandwidth availability and cost remains a significant impediment to the adoption of e-learning in Nigeria, Phillips Consulting, an indigenous company offering management consulting and training services to corporate organisations in strategic partnership with NetDimension has introduced a portable e-learning solution running independently from a flash drive.
The solution, mEKP (Mobile Enterprise Knowledge Platform) is designed to enable organisations to revolutionise training delivery to learners around the world with a truly portable LMS (Learning Management System). With the technology, learners can take courses or exams whenever and wherever it is convenient, without the need to connect to the internet.
Paul Ayim, managing consultant, Phillips Consulting Limited Nigeria who spoke at an e-learning seminar organised by the company and which had in attendance Human Resources (HR) executives from the banking, oil and gas sector, said that mEKP was a much more powerful solution than offline players. “It is a portable e-learning environment that can support all courseware and exam detail delivery, as well as tracking user information and activity that can be found in the master EKP system.
“It supports single and multi-user environments”. In the same vein, Steve Curtis, channel director, Europe Middle East and Africa, NetDimensions said that businesses today are seeking e-learning solution because they want to improve the expertise and performance of their employees with regards to improved service delivery. He further added that portable version of the EKP can intelligently manage user information (AICC, SCORM, exam data) while offline and communicate with the master EKP system to synchronise user-specific information when access to the internet or company intranet is available.
“All course and exam completion data, including dates, times and scores are uploaded to the main server when an Internet connection is available”, he added. Curtis further explained that mEKP has the same security options and permissions settings of a master EKP system. “A user system may be configured for a range of security requirements, from dynamic creation of new users to master host authentication and verification of user identity before access is granted.
“Likewise, various USB encryption options are available to protect the device in event of theft or loss. Each mEKP is allocated a unique instance identifier by the master EKP system to better manage security and the integration of data from multiple sources. As an added level of security, administrators can tag specific items in the EKP master as downloadable material into mEKP”, he concluded. It was learnt that mEKP can also automatically remove materials (courses, exams, etc.) after they have been used offline and the results synchronized with the master EKP system.
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