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Days are moving faster, we don’t know where we are now? Many technologies are emerging in our day to day life. People changing their life style based on new technologies. One of our new technologies is elearning in educational system.

Nowadays every one have personal computers, it is very useful for routine life. You can use computers for playing video game, watching movie, hearing songs, chat with friends and now you can use for elearning also.

Elearning is now widely well growing among the young people. Many universities, colleges, schools and organization adopt this technology. Elearning include learner enrollment, assign course, submission of assignment and assessment through online. It is a great deal, learners no need to go universities for registration, class room learning, examination hall etc. Learners can learn the course while traveling, in home and from anywhere anyplace.

Many organizations provides training for employees through elearning, it reduces cost effectiveness and improve employee efficiency. During training period employees need not to sit in same place for long hours and avoid submitting reports in paper work.

Some universities started to offer courses through elearning. Recently in Chennai Madras University launched the distance education elearning centre. Mr. S. Ramachandran vice chancellor of Madras University said “The University of Madras will be the first in India to launch a virtual university and a pan-African network programme”.

K-12 schools publish their content through elearning, teachers won’t punish the student for incomplete homework and student won’t bring the books bag sling over the shoulder.

In India elearning is in boon, many companies developing web portal for elearning. WHBS is one of the leading learning technologies providing i-Learnsmart an interactive elearning web portal for k-12 schools, organization like institution or campus.

Select a course, just pay amount, learn the course and evaluate knowledge through online. This is the modern trend in educational system.

In India elearning is still a new concept, but it is especially popular among youngsters. Number of internet users is continuously increasing very rapidly in India. Elearning helps to improve the carrier ladder and support self learning.

Elearning can be delivered through a learning management system which keeps track on learner’s activities.

With the spread of internet many colleges offer online courses and the business organizations provide training to their employees through learning management system

Learners can access the content from anywhere anyplace through learning management system. Content can be viewed repeatedly until the learner understands it. Yet another advantage is to evaluate their knowledge and get online certificate for course.

A variety of huge elearning management system is explored in the market. Some are free and low cost software also available in market. While working on that software critical type of issue occurs, during that time no support will be available to guide you. This will affect you financially and also causes loss of time, effort, etc.

Link2School Learn is a complete learning management system based on SCORM. It create unified platform for learners, instructors and registrar. Learners easily enroll into the course through link2school learn. During learning period if there is any doubt regarding content, instructor can easily clarify the doubt at any time.

School is an institution which allows and encourages student to learn, share knowledge with other student, motivate to participate in sports, improve their day to day activities and discipline.

Schools run successfully under more than three categories;

1. Administrator,

2. Academic and Extra curricular activities.

Administrator is responsible for

• Maintaining all records of the school.

• Create fee structure based on class and issue receipt for paid student.

• Student or Parents stand in queue for long hours and pay fees in administrative office.

• Maintain the list of student who paid fees in different mode such as cash, cheque and Demand draft.

• Build timetable with confusions and overlap with other classes.

• Administrator conduct parents meeting to share their children behavior, academic activities etc.

• Some parents doesn’t attend meeting due to official or personal jobs.

• Maintains class wise attendance note book with all student name and check whether student present or absent.

In academic category staffs,

• Have pressure to complete syllabus within period and instruct subject well understand according to student expectation.

• Schedule exam timetable and conduct examination to evaluate student knowledge through examination.

• Enter grade, mark in mark sheet achieved by student and post results to student residence.

• Encourage students to participate in sports competition and issue certificates awarded for students in extra curricular activities.

In a school they maintain record such as school, staff and student details. Nowadays schools maintain records using software but still some schools maintain students and staff details manually. How it’s easy to maintain records manually? If the administrator requires the details of alumni student record, they need to search all the records and identify the details. It’s merely time consuming and energy loss for administrator. To reduce time and easy way to manage the school details, schools can prefer web based school management software.

School management maintains their record through online with the help of Link2School software. Link2School is a complete school management system designed to meet the specific requirements of K-12 schools of any board or curriculum.

Before enrolling children into school, parents think twice which school provides good quality education for children. When you are looking for right schools some parents decide to choose public school rather than private school. Because in public school education is free and they provide free study materials. Many of the private school deals education as business. But parents carefully consider disadvantages and advantages in public school. Children will receive quality education for bright future in public school.

Main advantage and biggest dream of public school is socialization. The child meets different kinds of children with different background. They can easily interact with other children without any inequality. Several students enroll into the public school; class rooms are very larger with more number of students. Some school environment is so worst, have no air and any other facilities.

Teachers rush to cover the syllabus within particular period. School children memorize subject concept without understanding, what teacher teaches on black board. Children memorize information during last minute of examination and forgot after finishing examination. This way of system is not suitable for children education.

There is less individual attention from teachers due to more number of students in class. Teacher notifies children capability during evaluation of examination. Some children become cruel or seem destructive behavior with other peers due to lack of attention from teachers.

Currently elearning is growing well among the educational system. Elearning differs from home schooling and traditional school. In online education students can learn from anyplace anytime.

WHBS is one of the elearning companies offer i-Learnsmart for learners to learn the course from anyplace anytime.

In many countries home schooling become popular among the people. Home schooling is one of the best ways for parents to tech their children one-to-one within the home instead of sending to a school. Parents take entire responsibility for children education. With the help of home schooling children have some educational knowledge before entering school.

Choosing to start home schooling is not easy. You have to consider some important issue before starting home schooling. First asks yourself why you adopt this home schooling methodology. Then meet with other parents of home schooling. Discuss about the advantage and disadvantage of home schooling. Find out the issues while running the home schooling.

Second thing is consider how much expense need for home schooling. More effectively parent shut down job opportunity for home schooling. Parents stay in home and spend whole time to manage children education.

Teaching is very important in home schooling. Parents instruct the syllabus well understand according to children expectation. Check whether you are qualified to teach syllabus for children in home schooling. Collect various books and information related to home schooling through internet. There is also a wide range of information available in the internet. Focus the various methodologies in home schooling and select best methodology is suitable for you. Before you start learning process ask your children what they feel about home schooling.

Home schooling is completely different from traditional school. Children enjoy more time with their family members.

Home schooling is one of the educational methods through which parents, legal guardian or household member take responsibility for entire education of children. Home schooling methodology varies from state to state. In this process one or more children or more than two families combined together and instruct education in home.

Most children begin their learning process before they enter into school. So they come across with some basic educational or general details such as animals name, flowers name, rhymes and other complicated details before reach the school. Family members put whole effort to teach their children. Parents should decide their own syllabus and suite best way to teach their children. Parents monitor their children activities with other family members or with other children anytime.

Regarding about home schooling every state have own laws. For example in North Carolina, before starting a home schooling first files a notice. In this notice you have to explain that school is ‘private church school’ or ‘qualified non-public school’. In this school you have to maintain separate annual attendance report for school. Each student attending the eleventh grade has to take a nationally standardized test. These are some requirements you have to submit in North Carolina.

Parents work hard to educate children through home schooling. Due to success of home schooling children will create strong bridge with family members and respect with parents and other children.

SCORM stands for Sharable Content Object Reference Model, a collection of technical standard for web based elearning software product. SCORM is used to facilitate communication between learning content and learning management system. It present the learning content to learners based on the learner choices and performance at run-time.

Main goals adopt for SCORM

SCORM goals are to enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of web based learning content.

Interoperability – The ability to take instructional components developed in one location and uses them in another location.

Accessibility – The ability to locate and access the instructional components from one location and deliver them to many other locations.

Reusability – The flexibility to incorporate instructional components in multiple application and contexts.

History of SCORM

The SCORM standards are published by Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) for elearning. On January 2000 SCORM version 1.0 was released, version 1.1 in January 2001, version 1.2 in October 2001 and version 1.3 in January 2004. Each version acts as a pillar.

SCORM Version

Version 1.0

Scorm 1.0 was the outline of SCORM framework and it would become the basic foundation of SCORM. It specified how learning content should be packaged, how learning content communicate with learning management system and describe metadata.

Version 1.1

SCORM 1.1 was the first production version of SCORM based on feedback requirement from SCORM 1.0. It used a course structure XML file format based on the AICC specification to describe content structure.

Version 1.2

SCORM 1.2 solved many problems occurred in SCORM 1.1. It is widely used and largely supported by learning management system. SCORM 1.2 uses IMS content packaging specification with full content manifest and support for metadata.

Version 1.3

It is also know as SCORM 2004. SCORM 2004 were derived from SCORM 1.2 are very stable and widely used. It includes all the flavors such as content packaging and metadata. But it is added with new key as sequencing and navigation.

SCORM 1.3 Editions

SCORM 2004 1st Edition (January 2004) – changing the version and each books should be maintained separately. ADL is no longer to support this edition.

SCORM 2004 2nd Edition (July 2004) – built upon a Content Aggregation Model and Run Time Environment.

* Content Aggregation Model – Packaging of Content and learning object.
* Run Time Environment – describes APL runtime and data model used from communication between content objects and learning management system.

SCORM 2004 3rd Edition (October 2006) – remove ambiguities, improve interoperability, clarification of concept and clarification of requirements.

In a traditional world so many technologies are developed for educational system such as elearning, home schooling etc. Some people judge traditional school is best for educational system. Because in traditional school student learn socialization, communicate with other students and improve their day-to-day activities.

Most of the traditional school maintains their information electronically. It’s become good response among the educational system. Link2School is a comprehensive school management system supporting schools for maintaining school information electronically including staff, student and parents.

Without any uncertainty administrator can easily auto generate timetable based on subjects, class constraint and staff constraint. Administrator schedules the events like function, examination, study holidays, etc and published through notice board.

Parents can submit student application form through online without standing in queue for long time. Administrator approves or rejects the application form and issue hall ticket for applicant.

Administrator defines the fees structure, collect the fees and issue the payment receipt for paid student through web portal. Schedule the exam time table and conduct examination to evaluate student skill. Publish exam result through online instead of sending report card to home. Students and parents view the published examination result from anywhere anyplace.

In library management system, students or staffs view book details and reserve or renew the book through online without moving to library. Set the loan period, due date and fine amount for the borrowed book. Librarian collects fine from student, when the book is not returned within due date.

Nowadays parents are very busy in routine life, they have no time to attend the parents meeting. Link2School helps the parents to monitor student academic details, attendance, assignment and activities details from anywhere. If the student is absent for school, administrator can intimate the parents through text message.

Link2School provides separate interactive web portal to build good relationship between student, staff and parents.

Link2School reduces the burden of school system and say good bye to paperwork.

This is the golden opportunity for organization, professionals, higher education, k-12 schools, CBSE etc, since WHBS successfully launched a new elearning web portal i-Learnsmart. It mainly focuses on multimedia rich interactive learning content.

Nowadays elearning content grab the attention of learners. A main advantage of elearning web portal is interpretation of content from anywhere anyplace. The one and only requirement is an internet connection, with the help of internet elearning is convenient for learners and ability to work at anytime.

In a current trend many subject expertise publish the content in the form of CD or through online which becomes more popular among learners. i-Learnsmart also offers learning recourse content and some of the learning contents are free of cost. Now content providers can also share content into i-Learnsmart.

Speaking on announcement, Mr. Mohamed Elyas, CEO of WHBS said “To achieve our strategic vision, we look for content providers who have quality content that can be offered through our portal. We believe that i-Learnsmart will be of great help for the content providers who want to promote their quality content without any investment in technology and marketing

Let’s see the five steps how i-Learnsmart works:

* Learners visit i-Learnsmart portal

* Browse the learning content available in the portal resource library

* Choose the learning content they wish to learn online

* Create an account with i-Learnsmart and subscribe for the content by paying the required subscription price

* Access and learn the content from anywhere and anytime for the subscribed period

It delivers learning resources on software-as-a-service model. So you need not to download, install or maintain any software and hardware. Its easy method just by signing up, you can access the learning content that you prefer from anywhere and anytime.