Friday, 24 June 2016

The Advantages of Using Learning Record Stores with Online and Offline Educational Resources


E-learning has changed the way it works along the years. Nowadays it even gets to interact with one's workplace and become an integrative part of work training. Platforms provide efficient testing and results analysing methods to companies to track down the progress.

E-learning platforms have begun to provide more solutions to help students keep track of their work and progress. Such is the learning record store – a repository to be accessed with a specific tool (a reporting tool for example), where all of one's learning records can be kept. All the data goes into the LRS. Thus, it can host not only courses, but also games, web pages and simulators.

Your LRS of choice, besides keeping the data from learning applications and portals or platforms, can run advanced analytics and sort it too, creating adequate reports. These will show the learning level, as well as the business progress. The filters for the data can be customised as desired. The data can be shared between several systems, so that more can benefit of the insights. 


There is no doubt that the trends have changed and there is an emphasis on the social aspect of learning. This is more centred on the individual's practical experience. Furthermore, the record store is extremely useful to the organisations that control the learning. In previous years, these had to record online learning experiences as the learner logged in to an LMS and then completed the SCORM module. This method was in no way flexible. Now the SCORM can be replaced with a mobile application, the Intranet or even an education experience happening completely offline.

The LRS solutions are growing in complexity and thus are able to accomplish more. These can stand on their own and be totally separated from an LMS. They will hold one's development record as a unique source.

In this case, many will ask: is an LMS still needed? The answer remains Yes. It is because the LMS will provide ways of interactive studying. This can be either through a discussion forum, a quiz series or encyclopedias. Learning Record Stores are simply for the storage of data and for reporting it. Everything is being tracked in one place – all the learning data employed by someone.

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