Arena
The Learning Portal for Learners
Arena's design has been proved in use by organisations from government
departments to financial institutions. They value the role it plays
in attracting, engaging and retaining learners.
Arena provides a rapid, reliable route for organisations who need
a web portal where learners can:
- access learning and knowledge resources (both online and offine)
- interact with other learners, moderators, e-tutors etc.
- read news and articles relating to their learning
- access individual learning plans and track their progress
Simple, scalable, flexible
Simple - Arena focuses on functionality that promotes better
learning, rather than hosts of costly extras - making for fast,
straightforward implementation
Scalable - With its ability to scale up to 250,000+ users,
Arena can either form the focus for learning around a particular
subject or practice area (e.g. leadership) - or be the central gateway
to learning within your organisation
Flexible - Arena is fully customisable to your desired
branding and 'look and feel'; functionality can be extended and
added to within five key feature sets:
- Registration
- Learning content
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Learner management
Selected functions of Arena
Registration
Member log-in - Arena can be password protected to facilitate
a secure community atmosphere and allow the exchange of confidential
or commercially sensitive information.
Member database - Learners have the facility to edit their online
profile, search a database of other community members and send messages
to members listed, either individually or as a group.
Who's logged on? - Clicking on an icon in the navigation bar allows
access to other learners' profiles, instant messaging, one-click
email and other functionality. Learners also have access to log-in
history.
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Learning content
Web publishing - Arena opens a powerful communications channel,
allowing posting of news and articles, with images. Arena's web
publishing interface enables routine posting and updating to be
done by staff without advanced computer skills - and also supports
automated publishing/archiving based on publish/expiry date.
Learning resource library - Users may browse and download from
a library of e-learning materials or other knowledge resources.
A wide range of formats are supported, including Word, PDF, PowerPoint,
jpegs etc.
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Collaboration
Messaging - Learners can send and receive messages individually
or to a group. They can choose to send messages internally (within
Arena) or externally (to the member's registered email address).
Discussion forums - For threaded discussion of particular topics.
Learners can start new topics ('threads') or reply to messages posted
on an existing topic. Sub-community-specific topics are also possible.
Instant polling - Consult the views of the whole learning community
on specific issues with this online polling facility, which allows
instant feedback on questions put to the member base.
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Communication
Expert advice - A simple facility allows users to ask questions
of a designated expert or online mentor, by selecting from a list
of pre-determined questions or through free-text input.
Email alerts and newsletter support - Arena provides an automatic
email facility to help market the learning initaive, sending out
alerts when new articles or content are published, for instance
- or sending out reminders to infrequent users.
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Learner management
For the learner - Arena can launch e-learning, provide information
about workshops and other blended components of a programme and
allow learners to track their own progress and scores.
For the organisation - Arena provides creation and management
of learner accounts and easy-to-use management reporting.
Read
our free white paper: Collaboration in e-learning
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