Business driven learning solution

A solution for providing an outsourceable learning services for training the members of an organization, said solution comprising modules of interrelated and interdependent business processes, including:

• a business strategy alignment module containing related processes for recognizing and prioritizing business driven learning needs of said organization and implementing learning efforts to meet said needs;
• a content management module containing related processes for designing, procuring and managing learning content necessary to implement said learning efforts;
• a delivery module containing related processes for coordinating solution resources to provide instruction to said members;
• and
• a learning administration module containing related processes for managing the availability, delivery and results of learning efforts in relation to said members.

A method for providing an outsourceable learning services for training the designated students of a learner organization, said method comprising:

• said organization creating a service level commitment between a learning services provider, said service level commitment detailing minimum service levels of learning efforts to be provided to designated students by said service provider at the request of said organization;
• said learning services provider prioritizing requests for learning efforts received from said organization according to business strategies and goals of said organization, identifying learning effort approaches to meet said requests, obtaining learning content for said learning effort approach, and delivering a learning effort containing said obtained learning content to said designated students;
• wherein
• said obtained learning content and said delivered learning effort are compared against said minimum service levels so as to ensure that said minimum service levels of said service level commitment are met.

A learning solution support network adapted to facilitate information sharing among a learning services providing entity, said network comprising:

• a content development platform, said content development platform containing electronic tools for receiving input relating to the compiling of instructional materials and generating output comprising learning content;
• an electronic delivery platform, said electronic delivery platform containing electronic tools for delivering instruction to students, said delivering of instruction including asynchronous computer-delivered instruction and synchronous virtual classroom instruction, said delivered instruction incorporating said learning content;
• a learning administration platform, said learning administration platform containing electronic tools for storing registrar information regarding said students and said instruction and catalog information regarding said learning content;
• and
• a resources synchronization platform, said resources synchronization platform containing electronic tools for scheduling and allocating the utilization of learning resources in the delivery of said instruction and in the development of said learning content.