Elearning

“I’ve been developing elearning products since 1989: long before the term “elearning” was first coined. Since then, I’ve moved from creating courses on Laserdisc, through floppy disk based CBT, multimedia CDROM to, these days, deploying almost all our products online. We get a real thrill out of developing high quality products for both the corporate training market and education.”
Kevin Partner, MD

It’s fair to say that most of our elearning is now delivered online. With the advent of broadband, it’s now possible to delivery interactive multimedia learning content that includes both audio and video without having the user wait. We’ve created an elearning content creation engine that enables us to put sophisticated elearning together in record time and at a low cost.

We strongly believe that effective elearning must be multimedia in nature. If you’re after “books on screen” then you’re in the wrong place: we only develop elearning where it includes either audio or video since we believe that text/graphics only elearning is unlikely to hold the interest of the target audience for long enough to be effective.

Effective elearning is also interactive. Unless you involve your learner on a regular basis, they’ll lose interest and their eyes will glaze over. By getting them to interact in a meaningful way (pressing “next” is NOT interaction!), learning can be reinforced and the whole experience made more interesting.

Selected Examples

Stock Market Training

This is one of a suite of modules created for an online trading game based on an old course. We were instructed to reuse as many of the existing media assets as possible to keep costs down (so, sorry about the sound quality) but the interaction, animations, course player and test were all part of the job that we created.
Click here to see the example.

Collins Reference Virtual World

Virtual World is an award winning elearning product developed by us for Collins Reference. It includes a 3D interactive Atlas, an XML based country profile databank and a number of activities and games related to geography. We created Virtual World in record time, to budget and quality resulting in a delighted client.

This is what Jim Irvine, who managed the project for Collins, said: “Collins were pleased to work with NlightN on the creation of Virtual World. From the bidding process through to final delivery their approach was utterly professional and their friendly approachable attitude and flexibility were much appreciated. This project had extremely challenging deadlines, yet NlightN were able to deliver on time and to budget. Overall I found them a very good company to do business with.”

The Prince’s Trust: Start your own business

We converted the Prince’s Trusts existing classroom course for young entrepreneurs into a CDROM version.

The Prince’s Trust specifically requested CDROM so that if the end user had a poor PC, it would still work. The CDROM includes high quality widescreen video sequences telling the story of two young entrepreneurs who are setting up in business together. The course contains everything the new businessperson needs to know from generating ideas to doing accounts. By converting the course to CDROM, the Prince’s Trust is able to train more staff in less time at lower cost.

Microfinance

We developed a course training lending officers in the 3rd World to lend small amounts of money to very small businesses. By doing this, they can help people pull themselves out of poverty.
This course has been developed to run entirely online and has been created in both English and Arabic. The course includes both video and narration throughout and is connected to a fully featured learning management system.

Passyourtheory

Passyourtheory.co.uk is the UK’s leading Driving Theory test website and the only one to include elearning as part of its paid-for package. This elearning was created using our in-house authoring tool, Jigsaw 2, which meant it could be put together in record time and at very low cost.See an example section here