Challenge
Implement a secure, integrated social network and community for students, instructors, departments, and administrators.
Solution
The Learning Objects Social Network and Academic Commons provides access to a network for teaching, learning, and collaboration to everyone at your institution; enables administrative and cross-departmental collaboration on projects and research using social media; gives academic departments spaces to collaborate on curriculum and research and to store artifacts; provides clubs, teams, and ad-hoc groups an interactive online community.
Benefits:
Department Head, Dean:
- Improve student retention with a social network designed for teaching and learning
- Give academic departments spaces to collaborate on curriculum and research
- Allow students to network and form ad-hoc study and research groups
- Provide users the ability to browse and self enroll in learning communities
- Implement a space for committees to collaborate on projects and develop work that can be easily shared with members of the institution and beyond
Director of eLearning:
- Support student retention initiatives through engagement, transparency, feedback, and assessment
- Provide students a space for private or shared reflection, and empower them to manage their own learning
- Support life-long learning practices
- Build a network for peers and advisors throughout departments, the institution, and beyond
- Customize and template ePortfolio solutions to meet discipline specific goals and learning requirements
System Administrator:
- Implement a seamless social network and intranet integration into any LMS or as a portal
- Remove the need for infrastructure development or maintenance
- Receive full service support and training
- Deploy a secure, reliable, and scalable Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Meet institutional service level requirements (SLA)