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Leading businesses and organisations realise that their greatest asset lies in the quality of their people and information. Ongoing training is also strongly supported by the South African Skills Development Act, encouraging employers and organisations to invest in the development of their human capital, in order to claim back up to 70% of their training costs.
“Traditional” training, however, involves attending courses, workshops, seminars and conferences, taking time away from the office or workplace. This carries obvious financial and time-loss implications for the independent professional and/or employer. The AOSIS ituta e-learning solution empowers employers and organisations to deliver stand-alone distance learning, or blended learning, through the application of the most modern online learning technology. Staff/employees can now have access to customised online training facilities, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at a fraction of the cost of traditional modes of learning.
AOSIS has carefully developed specialist expertise in the field of e-learning and the application of the online open source learning content management system (LCMS) known as Moodle®, to the extent that AOSIS was selected as the first South African, and indeed first African Moodle® Partner in September 2006. Responding to the ongoing needs of our customers, we provide value-added services to the standard system – we call this service “ituta” (derived from “ithuta”, the Sepedi word for “to learn”). AOSIS adds value through: hosting, product training, maintenance to run trouble free, further software development and customisation, technical support and elearning course design and administration.
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AOSIS delivers its ituta service through the application service provider (ASP) model, providing learning services to customers over the Internet. The ASP model has several advantages, including:
- Simple, fast and cost-effective installation and set-up.
- No need for upfront investment in hardware and technical staff for the client.
- Software integration issues are eliminated from the client site.
- Continuing low cost upgrading as the system develops.
- Excellent support as AOSIS can build more application experience than the in-house staff of the client.
- Accessible – all the learner needs is access to the internet through a web browser.
- Economic, as software costs for the development of the application are spread over a number of clients.
The purpose of the AOSIS ituta e-learning service is therefore to enable the client to deliver Internet mediated learning (initial training and ongoing learning) services to its learners on a dedicated website preferably hosted by AOSIS. This website can be linked to any specified website (e.g. the client company website) with a seamless interface. With the assistance of AOSIS the client will be able to develop and maintain its own courses and trainee database, and generate reports as needed.
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