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Harvard Business Online Announces Universal Access to Award-winning Management Development Content Source: Harvard Business Online
Universal Access dramatically simplifies the integration complexities that companies face when implementing interactive, online learning programs with their learning systems’ platforms and databases. Because every company has its own unique environment for online learning, custom programming is often required when outside content is added to the mix. This is especially true when the content contains interactive database-driven exercises and functionality.
The new Universal Access solution performs equally well with or without a database or Learning Management System and adapts easily to any environment. It requires minimal customization, allowing companies to focus often-limited resources on providing critical content to their employees instead of battling with technology issues. Organizations of all sizes can access the same valuable
management programs as an outsourced solution on the Internet, as an installation on their intranet, as a CD-ROM disk, or on their existing learning management system.
“Our mission is to make better managers of people around the world, and to equip their companies to facilitate extraordinary growth in their management teams,” said Jonathon Levy, vice president of eLearning Programs for Harvard Business School Publishing. “While the Internet opens a wealth of management learning opportunities, there have been two large barriers to widespread implementation: lack of time for managers to sit through long online classes, and lack of a universal deployment technology. We solved the first problem last year by distilling top quality content to ten-minute chunks for ‘on-demand online programs’ in more than 40 areas of management proficiency. The remaining barrier, which was technological, has now been overcome by our team of engineers.”
With the technology barriers removed, all of Harvard Business Online’s eLearning programs now can be rapidly and easily deployed anywhere in the world. Additionally, courses such as “Leadership Transitions” and “Coaching for Results” can be integrated with content developed within an enterprise to provide customized knowledge packages that support the company’s competitive requirements.business objectives and management development programs.
According to Levy, there is no longer any reason for managers to be without a high-quality online mentor [is “mentor” confusing here?] and their own just-in-time knowledge provider. “Harvard Business Online’s eLearning programs perform equally well in any environment, and their universal architecture means they will easily migrate to additional new platform technologies in the future,” he said.
How it works
Harvard Business Online has filed for U.S. patent protection for Universal Access, which is also AICC and SCORM compliant, but provides functionality well beyond the scope of those standards. Each product comes in a single version that can be deployed in many ways. The same package that clients use for Internet or intranet installations can be used in a CD-ROM drive by users without database support. In all instances, the content and the interactivity are identical.
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Harvard Business Online, a division
of Harvard Business School Publishing, today announced the creation of “Universal
Access™,” a new technology that will make the implementation of eLearning
solutions across enterprises easier than ever before. Along with the substantial
benefit provided to companies and their training organizations, Universal Access
also enables individual managers to benefit from world-class content without
the necessity of immediate Internet connectivity. The eLearning programs –
built by the best management minds in the world –haven’t changed;
the obstacles to accessing the material have simply been removed.