Online-Learning.com

Online-Learning.com (OLL) was founded in 1995. Based in Ottawa, it has employees across Ontario and Quebec. The company provides three services: eLearning Courses, eLearning Courseware Development and Consulting and eLearning Management Systems or Technology.

eLEARNING COURSES OLL offers university-level online courses in the area of Information Design to government, industry and the general public. Courses include technical writing, visual design, human factors design, user interface design, programming and XML- related technologies, amongst others.

OLL courses combine high-quality branded content, a proven mentored learning approach and university-level course certification to offer a superior learning experience. The content is developed under the guidance of recognized industry experts (e.g. Information Design expert William Horton, XML Technology expert Ken Holman). OLL’s mentored learning model has enabled us to achieve course completion rates of 83% compared to eLearning industry completion rates of 20-40%.

OLL’s courses are certified by Carleton University in Canada. Students can receive certificates for completion of individual courses as well as an Information Design Program Certificate or an Information Authoring Program Certificate. We are rapidly expanding our educational affiliates to include universities and community colleges throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and Australia. For example, in October, we will be announcing an affiliation with Ohio University in the United States.

eLEARNING TECHNOLOGIES Over the last eight years, OLL has developed core eLearning technologies in the areas of online course authoring, management and delivery. Our major development focus has been on using XML technologies and SCORM learning standards to develop online learning authoring and delivery solutions.

During 2000-01, with partial assistance from IRAP (Alice Project), OLL developed an Authoring and Delivery tool that simplifies the course development process. The tool allows us to use an industry-standard word processing application and a pre- defined set of course components (e.g. true/false quiz questions) to generate courses in HTML, MS HTML HELP, PDF, XML, and SCORM formats. In addition, this Delivery tool has been developed using an open system software model which allows us to plug-and-play different functionality into the tool (e.g. chat modules, discussion modules).

ELEARNING CONSULTING OLL has over 20 years of experience in developing and delivering distance learning products. All of the principles have extensive experience in both classroom and online training. For various government and industry customers, we have developed courses, application-specific DTDs, SGML tools and XML tools. In cooperation with GEAC, OLL and ManageData developed software for the GEAC ‘MAX’ XML editor.

We have become specialists in markup strategies, co-authoring major texts, eLearning standards including metadata, and serving on international standards panels. We have worked with organizations such as CBC, Nortel, Isogen, Microsoft, and the RCMP as well as for the Federal and Provincial governments in the development and enhancement of capabilities in areas of responsibility in this field.

As a result of our concentrated effort and interest in this area, we have become experts in SCORM standards. Working with DND on the ADL SCORM standards and the publishing of subject matter white papers, combined with our chairman’s recognized knowledge of the e-Learning area, OLL is an established leader in eLearning standards, in Canada and wherever SCORM technology is used throughout the world.
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