VBT is a revolutionary tool to deliver easy and effective video lectures on the internet. It’s an online learning environment that employs interactive video to deliver high quality learning across geography. Moreover, VBT offers solution to the growing problem of shortage of good faculties.

GurukulOnline Learning Solutions™, India’s premier eLearning company, offers a patented tool (US Patent Number 11/710,331) for VBT which means that for the very first time in the world it is now possible to use a combination of streaming videos, PowerPoint slides and built-in tests to deliver highly effective training. Using a multi-sensory training methodology, VBT not only enables more effective learning but also results in better retention of all that one has learnt.

Features & Advantages

1. You don’t require any special software to view VBT, except for the flash plugins.
2. “Question Bank” is integrated within courses for testing.
3. Benefit of a virtual faculty- Get lectures from the best faculty in the country.
4. Students get a multi-sensory training experience (interactive Audio/Video) . At the same time you have choice of choosing suitable technology. E.g. you have option of switching of voice.
5. Education that is more engaging and interactive
6. Live Chat and messaging system with faculties
7. A novel methodology to measure effectiveness of what is taught and performance of students

Most LMSs are web-based to facilitate "anytime, any place, any pace" access to learning content and administration.

Leading Learning Management System providers seek to include integrated Performance Management Systems which encompass such functionality as performance management (i.e. period-based appraisals), competency management, skills-gap analysis, succession planning, and multi-rater assessments (360 degree reviews).

For the commercial market, the development path for Learning and Performance Management Systems (LPMS) appears to be towards the inclusion of recruitment and reward functionality. With these enhancements in place, the complete lifecycle of learner development, from recruitment to retirement, will be covered.

Learning Management Systems are favoured by regulated industries (e.g. financial services and biopharma) where compliance training is essential.

LMSs are based on a variety of development platforms, from Java EE based architectures to Microsoft .NET, and usually employ the use of a robust database back-end. While most systems are commercially developed and frequently have non free software free licences or restrict access to their source code, free and open-source models do exist. Other than the most simple, basic functionality, all LMSs cater to, and focus on different educational, administrative, and deployment requirements.

Open source and Web-based LMS software solutions are growing fast in the education and business world.

Learning management systems (LMS) vs. learning content management systems (LCMS)

In addition to managing the administrative functions of online learning, some systems also provide tools to deliver and manage instructor-led synchronous and asynchronous online training based on learning object methodology. These systems are called Learning content management systems or LCMSs. An LCMS provides tools for authoring and re-using or re-purposing content (mutated learning objects) MLO as well as virtual spaces for learner interaction (such as discussion forums and live chat rooms). Despite this distinction, the terms LMS is often used to refer to both an LMS and an LCMS, although the LCMS is a further development of the LMS. Due to this conformity issue, the acronym Clcims (Computer Learning Content Information Management System) is now widely used to create a uniform phonetic way of referencing any learning system software based on advanced learning technology methodology.

In essence, an LMS is a high-level, strategic solution for planning, delivering, and managing most learning events within an organization, including online, virtual classroom, and instructor-led courses. The primary solution is replacing isolated and fragmented learning programs with a systematic means of assessing and raising competency and performance levels throughout a learning enterprise. For example, an LMS can simplify global certification efforts, enable entities to align learning initiatives with strategic goals, and provide a viable means of enterprise-level skills management. The focus of an LMS is to manage learners, keeping track of their progress and performance across all types of training activities. It performs heavy-duty administrative tasks, such as reporting to instructors, HR and other ERP systems but isn’t generally used to create course content.

In contrast, the focus of an LCMS is on learning content. It gives authors, instructional designers, and subject matter experts the means to create and re-use e-learning content more efficiently. The primary business problem an LCMS solves is to create just enough content just in time to meet the needs of individual learners or groups of learners. Rather than developing entire courses and adapting them to multiple audiences, instructional designers create reusable content chunks or learning objects and make them available to course developers and content experts throughout the organization. This eliminates duplicate development efforts and allows for the rapid assembly of customized content.

Characteristics

As previously mentioned, LMSs can cater to different educational, administrative, and deployment requirements. While an LMS for corporate learning, for example, may share many characteristics with an LMS, or Virtual learning environment, used by educational institutions, they each meet unique needs. The Virtual learning environment used by universities and colleges allow instructors to manage their courses and exchange information with students for a course that in most cases will last several weeks and will meet several times during those weeks. In the corporate setting a course may be much shorter, completed in single instructor-led or online session.
The characteristics shared by both types of LMSs include:

1. Manage users, roles, courses, instructors, and facilities and generate reports
2. Course calendar
3. Learner messaging and notifications
4. Assessment/testing capable of handling student pre/post testing
5. Display scores and transcripts
6. Grading of coursework and roster processing, including waitlisting
7. Web-based or blended course delivery

Characteristics more specific to corporate learning, which sometimes includes franchisees or other business partners, include:

Autoenrollment (enrolling learners in courses when required according to predefined criteria, such as job title or work location)

Manager enrolment and approval

Boolean definitions for prerequisites or equivalencies

Integration with performance tracking and management systems

Planning tools to identify skill gaps at departmental and individual level

Curriculum, required and elective training requirements at an individual and organizational level

Grouping learners according to demographic units (geographic region, product line, business size, etc.)

Assign corporate and partner employees to more than one job title at more than one demographic unit