Where’s the content? You have Microsoft Office ― add THESIS! That’s a question most schools are asking as they try and develop quality online courses. As all levels of education are looking at the collaborative development of learning content for courses being taught, many are realizing that they have developed their infrastructure but are missing the key content needed to successfully teach their courses. And, while each campus has content experts that create course content, they also want to collaborate on a team to develop high quality learning content for other courses. In addition, SCORM standards are playing an increased role in accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of digital instructional materials in today’s learning environment. THESIS tools are opening the door for educators to create the needed content, share, contribute, and reuse these digital learning objects at will, regardless of the content management platform schools might use. And, because SCORM standards are becoming increasingly important for ensuring that digital content can be integrated into any learning management system (LMS), HunterStone has created THESIS with educators in mind.
Examples of how THESIS can change your environment: - K-12
THESIS tools allow for quick, easy and continuous development of course material. Creating content is of primary importance for not only faculty but also students, to make courses interesting, challenging and useful.
- Higher Education
In just a few simple steps, administrators, teachers and other school staff can create and collaborate on key course content. As well, many colleges that want to beef up their online course offerings are starting to buy materials developed by other institutions. The strategy has been adopted by smaller institutions, especially community colleges that often cannot afford to develop distance-education materials on their own.
- Technical Colleges
Colleges can also take their intellectual property with the help of THESIS tools, make it commercially viable, turn it over to the private sector, and generate revenues which allow the programs to continue. THESIS encourages faculty to think about not only what they do in terms of their day-to-day activities, teaching and carrying on research and publishing journal articles, etc., but also taking what they know and making it useful to the larger business population.
Our THESIS product line starts with Lite, which provides an entry-level capability for teachers to use their existing knowledge and skills of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to create e-Learning content. Next, staff can advance to THESIS Standard which is tightly integrated with the Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage, & Visio and has facilities to manage Microsoft Producer, Web Content, and all other authoring tool files that are recognized by SCORM standards and supports your own level of creativity. From Standard, teachers can use our Professional product line as well as our Librarian feature which is opening the door for the new uses of “digital repositories”, or collections of shareable, reusable online content that educators can search through to find items they can incorporate into their own instruction.
THESIS Lite and Microsoft Learning Essentials — the perfect partnership!
Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office is a
desktop application that runs on top of Microsoft Office to give students
and teachers a custom Office environment. But now, Learning Essentials
includes the industry’s most comprehensive set of tools that transform
Microsoft Office files into SCORM e-Learning Objects for use in Learning
Management Systems-THESIS Lite!
THESIS Lite provides an entry level capability that allows the people in your organization to use their existing knowledge and skills of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to create e-Learning content. THESIS Lite offers organizations an alternative to outsourced content creation, complex authoring systems, and proprietary tools within learning management systems. Learning Essentials is available at no additional cost to academic institutions that are using Microsoft Office XP or 2003 (media costs may apply). Free downloads of Learning Essentials with the THESIS-based SCORM Tools for English, French, German, Italian,
Polish, Norwegian and Spanish are available now!
How to Acquire:
Schools can:
*New* - Learn about the
Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit
To learn more which THESIS product is right for you check out our comparison chart or better yet,
download our free trial version and see how THESIS can transform your content in just a few quick clicks!
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