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VISION Learning Systems Architecture adheres to a fundamental instructional philosophy built
upon Independent Learning Objects. This represents a significant shift from the traditional approach
to training design.
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Traditionally, learning content was grouped and managed by the course. Learning Management Systems
(LMS) were designed to deploy these courses to students. But there was a big problem.
Courses were too large, and they often contained widely disparate learning content. When courses were
developed and delivered in this manner, they typically could only be used for one purpose, for a
particular audience, and within a narrowly defined training setting. This resulted in much wasted
development time, and a lot of “reinventing the wheel” for each new audience, learning venue or
content requirement.
By contrast, using Independent Learning Objects (ILO) is the new, groundbreaking way to design and
manage your learning content.
An ILO is said to be independent because it contains within itself everything required to increase
employee performance on a specific work task or related skill or knowledge. An ILO can stand alone.
Technically, VISION defines an ILO as follows:
“An Independent learning Object is the smallest unit of information which, when displayed to a
learner, will result in a complete, consistent and measurable learning outcome in any setting and in
any medium.”
Within VISION, ILOs are self-contained objects encapsulating the following:
- A detailed statement of the learning objective
- All learning content for the objective, including content exposition, demonstrations and practical exercises
- Test items for the objective
- Links to related documents
- Associations to related data tables
- Other required metadata
In short, an Independent Learning Object contains--- within itself--- everything needed to train for
a targeted job task or skill. Because VISION’s unique framework
connects work tasks to independent learning objects, ILOs are “perfectly sized” to provide
just-in-time learning, testing, and performance support.
Now, imagine developing a learning object just once, then, using VISION’s unique delivery
templates, deploying it again and again in many different learning venues:
- Print
- Classroom
- Web-based
- PDA
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VISION’s ILO Benefits |
- Perfectly Sized
- Develop Once and Deliver in Different Venues
- Effortless Reuse
- Instantaneous Compilation and Delivery
- Targeted Certifcation Programs
- Surgically Locate and Maintain Content
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Or, would you like to develop a learning object just once, then automatically
recombine it with other objects, or effortlessly reuse it in several different courses and programs?
VISION’s Independent Learning Objects are your answer.
Consider your workers on the job performing their everyday tasks. Do they ever need to refresh their
knowledge of an infrequent or difficult work task? How do they get immediate “performance support”
for just that one task alone? VISION can instantaneously compile and deliver a just-in-time series of
ILOs to be used as job aids or training. You’ll get only the content you want, because the learning
is custom-designed and packaged for the specific task at hand.
Do your employees need to certify (or re-certify) on certain equipment, systems, tasks or skills?
VISION can create targeted certification programs, complete with pretests, prescriptive learning, and
post tests. These programs all stem from a chain of Independent Learning Objects linked to your
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What’s more, Independent Learning Objects are the latest method for future-proofing your
content. Leveraging VISION’s change management capabilities, you will be able to surgically
locate and maintain dynamically changing content.
VISION’s Learning System Architecture systematically delivers all the valuable benefits of
Independent Learning Objects to your organization. Contact
us to claim your benefits today!
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