E-Learning System Reside

Do you have the network bandwidth to run the e- learning courses you want? Are your employees equipped with computers that let you run the e-learning courses you want? Will your e-learning system scale up to handle a large number of students? Tell Me More Your company’s IT infrastructure includes: Networks The computers that your [...]

Firewalls are filters that keep unauthorized users and data out of your company’s intranet . But if students are inside your company’s intranet, and are trying to take e-learning courses that are coming across the firewall from an outside Web site, you need to be sure the firewall is not filtering out the e-learning course [...]

You don’t have to have a single place for your employees to go for e-learning. You can send them to a combination of public sites, to your own private e-learning system, and to anywhere else you want. How you mix and match where your employees go for training will most likely depend on costs and [...]

An e-learning utility is aimed at temporary access to an e-learning system. This is much like the ASP model described in Question 10-4 except that, as with any other utility, you only plug into it as needed. Tell Me More An e-learning utility is something you plug into only as needed, and it aims at [...]

With private access to a shared system, you get what looks like and acts almost like a private system installed within your own company. Because you are sharing physical resources, you have reduced costs. You hand over the system management tasks to the ASP provider. Because an experienced ASP will have done this already for [...]

A public e-learning system lets anyone come and take a course (usually for a fee). This is handy if: You need to get some employees trained with courses that are already available at a public site. You need to move fast and can’t wait for a private e- learning system to be built for you. [...]

If your e-learning system is installed completely within your company, you get complete control. You can, for example, connect your e-learning system directly to your HR system. You also bear all the costs and all the system management tasks. Tell Me More When you host your own e-learning system, it is installed within your company, [...]

Where your e-learning system physically resides is important because it affects your costs and the way you manage your system. You have three choices: Run it on your private intranet. Use a public system. Get private access to a shared system. Tell Me More You might think that your e-learning system simply resides on the [...]