Online Learning Australia is an Australian-owned company that provides learning services around the world. We have clients in Australia and we also provide custom content services and off-the-shelf products to clients in the USA, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Custom-built content is 100% unique and specific to your organisation.

Customised content enables clients to take advantage of ready-built courses. We can help you to tailor the course by adding your own logo, colours and some of your own content.

Off-the-shelf courses are ready to install without alterations.

Online Learning Australia provides all of these solutions and more!

Blended learning combines two or more learning media to drive learning outcomes. Here are a couple of examples of blended learning:

• An e-learning course on a sales approach followed by an instructor-led workshop to practise the skills
• An instructor-led training course on leadership skills followed by a series of self-paced workplace activities to be reviewed by the learner’s manager.

Our Learning Consultants work with your organisation to design blended learning solutions that fit your needs.

Yes, our paper-based, instructor-led materials include visuals and interactions to engage learners and reinforce the instruction.

Yes, we can convert paper-based courses to online courses and vice versa.

Yes, ask us how.

Online Learning Australia is happy to start from scratch by conducting a training needs analysis to identify your learning requirements, and to propose and develop solutions. We are also happy to work with any specifications and content documents that you have developed.

Throughout an e-learning project, our team, which includes a project manager, instructional designers, multimedia developers and a system architect, will work closely with your team, providing multiple opportunities for your input before the final courseware is ready.

At Online Learning Australia learning is at the centre of everything we do. Our instructional designers create courses that make it easy for your staff to learn the required knowledge and skills.

Course assessments are targeted to the learning objectives and results can be tracked through your Learning Management System.

Our solutions not only help learners achieve the course objectives, they are designed to help your staff apply their new knowledge in the workplace.

Not necessarily. Our clients say that we provide quality and value for the price. Some courses cost more than others and we work to your budget. Many courses recoup their return on investment in a matter of months.

No matter what the medium is, effective learning experiences must keep learners actively thinking. Learners must grasp new information, procedures and principles to build their understanding of the content. Meaningful interactivity ensures that the activities are closely aligned to the way in which the new information, procedures and principles will be applied in the workplace. This enables learners to transfer what they have learned online to their work.

Our courses are mainly designed for adult learners in a business environment, but we have successfully created courseware for many other audiences.

Yes, this is a specialty area for Online Learning Australia. We have created numerous courses that adhere to the W3C Guidelines and to the US 508 Compliance Standards.

When multimedia is used inappropriately in courses, it can create distractions rather than results. Our instructional design team ensures that clients achieve successful course completions and outcomes.

A Learning Management System (LMS) hosts the content and enables clients to track learner results, generate reports and develop training plans.

Not everyone needs an LMS. Depending on their reporting and tracking requirements for learners, many clients choose to install an LMS.

Our content is SCORM-compliant to ensure our courseware integrates well with LMS. We have integrated with many LMS providers and can provide support and independent advice in LMS selection.

Many LMS systems integrate with HRIS and payroll systems.

An LMS provides managers with confirmation of course completion and tools to plan and develop staff training.

Online Learning Australia has an LMS solution that offers a range of vital functionality required for managing learning content. We also provide independent advice on the different LMS available in the market. We are qualified to do this because we have integrated our courseware with many market leaders and are informed about our clients’ issues and their assessment of these systems.

Yes, all Online Learning Australia courses track users' progress and feed this information back to the LMS. You can choose whether your course requires assessment and what the pass score for that assessment will be. You can also decide how many attempts the learner is permitted to have before they fail the course.

Tracking enables managers to know how far their team members have progressed through the training. It also enables learners to stop and start the training in their own time, and resume the course where they left off. Assessments determine whether the learner has successfully completed the course.

Assessments sent to an LMS are usually formal, scored assessments. There are often assessments or quizzes in courseware, which simply test knowledge. The results from these non-scored quizzes are not fed back to the LMS.

Bandwidth is an important issue to consider when delivering course content across a network. Our courses are designed around the technical specification of a client’s common desktop environment and system configuration to ensure that courses run effectively and deliver the learning outcomes required.

Online Learning Australia is a specialist in developing both paper-based and online courses. We create both of these deliverables for projects requiring a blended learning solution.

Yes, Online Learning Australia has vast experience in delivering systems simulations in both the national and international markets.

The role of the Project Manager is to create a strong relationship with our clients, and to ensure that projects are delivered on time and on budget.

A subject matter expert (SME) usually comes from the client organisation and provides expertise on the content of the online course or other deliverables.

Maintenance is an important part of the ongoing upkeep of the course. Clients can maintain courses themselves without engaging Online Learning Australia or we can perform any maintenance required.

Our clients can make text edits to custom content, but they usually engage us to edit more complex parts of the courseware. Because our maintenance and editing is cost-effective, most clients prefer us to provide this service.

SCORM and AICC are the major standards for course content. SCORM is the most practised standard.

Standards such as SCORM and AICC are important because they help to ensure that courses can be integrated successfully with the LMS and communicate student results. They are the common ground on which the course and LMS meet to work together successfully. Standards make compliant courses portable from one compliant LMS to another.

Yes.

Online Learning Australia brings specialist instructional design skills and educational focus to build content that is engaging and motivating. Many of our clients build their own content for less complex courses. However, if the course has strategic value (product releases, orientation to attract new staff) or legal implications (compliance with OH&S or EEO/Diversity) clients ask Online Learning Australia to bring their instructional design, educational and multimedia expertise to the project.

Yes, ask us how.

Ask our clients! Our references are probably the best way to discover why we claim to provide a unique and specialised experience for our learners. We are happy to put you in touch with our clients who can share their stories and experiences.

We have also recently won three coveted awards in our industry:

• The Brandon Hall Silver Medal for Best Case Study with Coles Myer
• HR Magazine Award for Best Use of Technology with Coles Myer
• HR Magazine Award for Best e-Learning Strategy with St.George