Case studies
On-line training platform
Customer: MSD España
During the past few years, the educative technologies have improved a lot due to the specific educative needs of each company: Nowadays thestaff is much more dispersed and therefore a much more personalizededucative process is needed.
According with this situation, Open Sistemas developed for the pharmaceuticalmultinational MSD a consultancy project with two main goals:
To assess the free platforms possibilities and their adaptation to the MSD needs.
To assess the advantages and disadvantages of the development of this kind of educative contents comparing with the classical ones.
After an exhaustive analysis of the educative oriented opensource tools,Open Sistemas choused Dokeos for this project. This tool is ane-learning free platform which allows the user to create and managevirtual courses.
Dokeos allows to design, elaborate andimplement internet educative environments with all the resourcesneeded to manage, administrate and evaluate the educative activities.
This platforms works with modules and it offers synchronic asynchronous communication, a file repository, the possibility of including video and audio and some other functionalities that can be activated depending on the methodological criterion.
Different educative contents were created on this platform depending on theScorm possibilities, like the educative content generation, thepossibility of exporting it to other platforms or the contentatomization.
After this project, MSD España reached higher stability and securitylevels. This new situation guarantees its future investments andhelps for the content interchange, the specific design ofpersonalized courses, the free election of content and tool suppliersand the development of courses for the platform.