Empower learning!
IMC presents numerous innovations at CeBIT 2008 aimed at increasing efficiency in companies and universities: Simpler processes for learning management with CLIX® and Flash video presentations with LECTURNITY®
“Today, learning technologies must have two objectives in mind: on the one hand they must be intuitively understandable and on the other they must offer a highly integrated control instrument for managing learning”, says Dr Wolfgang Kraemer, chairman of IMC. “And it is precisely here where we are pioneers in Europe, because the objective of many of our innovative products is to make learning and teaching simpler whilst, at the same time, being able to model the most complicated of learning scenarios and business processes. IMC meets this trend towards “simplexity” which involves not only the principle of simplicity, but also the balance between the increasing complexity of work processes and intelligent pragmatism, with the further development of its CLIX® and LECTURNITY® technologies.
Simpler processes for learning management with CLIX®
CLIX® 8 will be delivered to customers from 15 April. Selected new features will be presented in advance at CeBIT in Hanover (4-9 March 2008). “The new implementation and upgrading of the Resource and Event Management in CLIX® 8 puts a clear focus on simple learning processes, by which learners are offered exactly the functions required for a particular scenario”, explained Frank Milius, product chairman at IMC. Simple learning is guaranteed with the comprehensive tools available to administrators for configuring learning and business processes. These control the viewing options for learners and define learning complexity. The complexity involved in designing learning scenarios was reduced not only for learners, but also for designers of learning scenarios by enabling administrators to create pre-configured scenarios which concentrate on the content and on didactic aspects. “By adhering to the principle 'Simplify Learning - Managing Complexity’, we have simplified views and processes for learners, tutors, superiors and administrators alike – and have still added further options for the configuration of individual applications”, explained Rebekka Wachter, CLIX® product manager at IMC.
Flash video presentations with LECTURNITY®
The upgraded version of LECTURNITY 2® is available for roll out on 30 January 2008. Release 3.0 will be launched at the end of April 2008. As a result of the increasing penetration of Adobe Flash technology in all types of application systems, LECTURNITY’s primary output format for multimedia learning documents is becoming increasingly based on Flash technology. The Flash Media Server now enables the playback of Flash data via the Internet. And even mobile devices such as smartphones, PDAs, portable audio/video players and video game consoles now include a Flash player. LECTURNITY 2® therefore enables video and screengrabbed content from documents to be created in the Flash-based target format and to be streamed. The layout and design settings that have been specially adapted for lower resolutions enable the creation of interactive, multimedia learning content for mobile terminals which support Flash technology. Mobile learning is becoming more and more a reality, e-learning for students and end-users is becoming available on an increasing number of terminals. Presentations and lectures recorded with LECTURNITY® can be published directly on these terminals.
Meet IMC at CeBIT
CeBIT is the ideal place to meet our expert team to discuss your learning requirements. Contact us at [email protected] or come and visit us in hall 6 on stand B36.