THE VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY
APPLIANCE ... E-LEARNING SIMPLIFIED
The Virtual University Appliance is a pre-packaged and
'turn-key' hardware and software solution designed to
address the Virtual Learning ('E-Learning') needs of corporations and
educational institutions. It is the most comprehensive
"out-of-the-box" Virtual Learning Solution in the
marketplace today. This enterprise-class product
effectively integrates blended learning, content and
services into a complete learning system to address your
most critical business needs. It streamlines the entire
E-Learning process as well as manages traditional learning
processes such as In-class instruction and seminar events.
In summary, it is a complete e-learning and Human Capital
Development infrastructure for creating, managing, and
tracking enterprise-wide learning, whether in the
classroom or online.
The 'VU Appliance' as it is
referred is feature-rich and allows corporations,
educational institutions and industry associations to
create web-based virtual e-learning environments very
quickly and inexpensively. The appliance is a standard 1U
rack mounted device and comes pre-configured with the
following software:
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Course Builder - a software
for creating/aggregating content for courses
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Courseware Repository - for
storing all the courses and tracking their usage
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Learning Management and
Registration System (LMS) - for registering and tracking
Online as well as traditional in-class and web-cast
students
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Online Exams Server - for
creating comprehensive Exams, Quizzes and exercises
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Online Evaluations Server -
for Students Evaluations, Instructor Evaluations, and
other progress/quality tracking features
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Collaboration Server for
Online Discussion Forums & Chat Sessions
The Appliance can accept
content created in multiple formats and presents that
content over the Internet or Intranet - all interaction
and administration is performed with a web browser.
Customers using the product can import any ADL/SCORM
conforming content or create new content as needed. The
product features a Content Repository that can be exposed
to external visitors if customers want to sell their
courses to others in order to recoup their investment.
Some reasons why this product is attractive besides having
a starter price of under $20k are as follows:
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Fast Implementation (get
started with e-learning in a few hours)
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Low Cost Of Entry (priced
under $20k for a starter appliance)
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Open Standards Based
(Linux, Java, J2EE, SQL, XML & HTML)
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Turn-Key System (all
components pre-installed and tested .. the customer only
needs an IP address and a domain name to get started)
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Flexible And Extensible
(customization and adding new features is easy)
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Protect Your Investment
(content is stored in XML format and can easily be
repurposed)
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Overall Reduced Risk (the
low cost of the product is exciting to some customers
who are using it to pilot e-learning initiatives before
investing further)
This product has almost all
the features of very pricey products (from $300k to
millions) from Sum Total as well as Blackboard and others.
The price point without any compromise in features or
enterprise-class performance is one of the most attractive
reasons why this product sells.
More information can be obtained from the following
links:
Frequently Asked Questions:
http://www.vusonline.com/appfaq.html
Feature Details:
http://www.vusonline.com/appfeatures.html
Customer Benefits:
http://www.vusonline.com/appbenefits.html
7 Reasons to Buy:
http://www.vusonline.com/appmessage1.html
Available Configurations:
http://www.vusonline.com/ApplianceIndex.html
Bringing Simplicity to
Complexity
The company has a
patent-pending on this novel approach of packaging as an
'Appliance' several e-learning components together with
related processes to make e-learning initiatives easier to
implement. By tying everything together in the Virtual
University Appliance, we bring simplicity to complexity.
The Virtual University
Appliance is the only eLearning Appliance you'll ever need
to manage your e-learning!
Enterprise-wide e-learning
can be constructed from a wide variety of source material,
such as legacy text documents, word processing documents,
graphics, streaming media, flash animation files, PowerPoint
presentations, etc., . When content is packaged and added to
the Virtual University Appliance central database as
Learning Objects, your organization effectively creates a
'Knowledge Repository'. Using the Learning Content
Management Systems (LCMS) and the Learning Management System
(LMS), both an integral part of the
Virtual University Appliance, this Knowledge can be
widely distributed as either structured academic e-learning or as a
freeform, organization-wide knowledge base used for just-in-time
learning – or a combination of both.
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