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Training Company Breaks Learning Management Trend
Makau Adds Learning Management System Upgrade and Course Integrator
Provo, Utah, March 30, 2005 Makau Corporation has listened and responded to clients by introducing the Makau LMS and the Makau Course Integrator that focus on the end user. The Makau Course Integrator allows corporate trainers and training departments to load their own courseware into the LMS for network distribution and tracking. With the Integrator, companies can create, distribute, and track courses that meet their specific needs.
Two chief complaints among learning specialists are that learning management systems (LMS) focus too much on structured controls rather than on the needs of learners and don’t allow for custom courses created by companies to meet unique needs. In his November 2004 article on elearnspace.org, George Siemens laments that LMS vendors remove control from instructors and learners, by focusing more on learning management than on learning content.
“By focusing on customer integration, custom-content, and seamless delivery,” said Bill Chipman, Makau CEO, “Makau corporation hopes to create an open training environment that meets customers’ needs and exceeds their expectations.”
As a course developer and content provider, Makau puts effective learning at the center of their creative work. That includes the latest release of their Enterprise Learning Management System. This system is built on the same web deliverable technology as their courses, which eliminates any end-user installation.
Keeping with the simplicity of delivery, Makau also addresses the need for simpler user interfaces. By separating the student and administration functions within the LMS, Makau has created a simple interface that gives students greater control over content while allowing administrators and instructors greater flexibility and reporting power. Rather than the mere pagehit reporting seen on other systems, the Makau LMS offers qualitative reporting on student progress and performance. The LMS comes bundled with the Makau’s libraries of IT, desktop, and professional training courses.
Makau Corporation helps people cultivate achievement through a unique and focused blended learning solution. It empowers computer users and working professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to compete in today’s world. It deploys flexible learning solutions in corporations, governments, educational institutions, and not-for-profit organizations, providing courses on DVD, CD-ROM, videotape, network-based platforms, the world-wide web, live online and on-site. It has become recognized for the innovation of its server-based Learning Library which provides easy, cost-effective training management solutions for companies and institutions. Makau is a private corporation established in 2002 comprising top executives involved in enterprise training. Web site: www.makaucorp.com.