Turnkey Solutions
Turn-key Solution for Effective Online Programs:
A NO PAIN – RAPID DEPLOYMENT APPROACH
iDL is now providing turn-key solutions for the content design, development, deployment, and support of adaptive learning programs for numerous Universities/Colleges. University/College have partnered with iDL in the development of certificate (both non-credit and credit) and credit bearing accredited full degree programs and have generated significant revenues from - both completely asynchronous and blended – adaptive learning programs. The turnkey approach offers a NO PAIN - RAPID DEPLOYMENT approach for the convenience of the iDL academic and corporate partners.
The key advantages of partnering with iDL for a turn–key solution are:
- Adaptive: The iDL courses adapt to the individual learning needs of each student. We provide numerous quizzes to test each student’s grasp of key concepts, and if she or he fails, we provide immediate personalized remediation in the learning style that best meets his or her needs. The iDL’s adaptive learning technology was developed based on the research conducted by Dr. Nish Sonwalkar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Highest Completion Rate in Industry: The adaptive learning approach leads to the completion rates of over 90% which is deemed highest completion rate for online courses in the online learning industry.
- Blended: Because our entire course is online, the professor can decide which sections to teach face-to-face, and which are best online. Make up classes are handled easily.
- Widely Applicable: iDL’s education products can be used as a tool to enhance in-class courses, to start a distance learning program or to expand and improve an existing offering of online courses.
- Quality Content: iDL’s proven pedagogy has been used to convert material from leading publishers such as McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin, John Wiley, and others into adaptive courses. These courses go far beyond static text. Custom courses can also be created with content supplied by your institution.
- Offered on a Turnkey Basis: We provide all the software, deployment, hosting, and training in course usage, tech support desk, and interface with your administrative services.
- Low Risk or No Risk: iDL partners with you to take equal risk for the development of new adaptive learning programs making it a low risk investment. For existing adaptive learning programs our fees are based on student registrations, with minimal upfront setup, and customization costs.
- Highly Customizable: To preserve and enhance the unique image and ethos of your college. We can provide distinctive screens, add or delete sections, change the sequence of topics and create a template to provide the look and feel of your institution.
- Accredited: Provide a range of reports to help meet the requirements of certification. IDL is the only company to meet NEASC’s “Best Practices for Electronic Instruction”.
- Faculty-friendly: Faculty spends less time on basic concepts and remediation, freeing them to focus on advanced discussions.
- Student-friendly: Students feel engaged by the feedback from the system. They frequently retake quizzes to attain perfect scores and are motivated by multimedia applications and the success of their learning. Also online instruction provides scheduling flexibility and allows accelerated learning, especially appealing to working professionals.
The Business Model:
The turn-key solution, involves iDL providing following services as part of single price-point package for the course design and development. The course development price includes:
- Content Acquisition: iDL has agreement with publishers to provide content license for most of the state-of-the art areas.
- Content creation (for-hire): iDL works with numerous content experts and authors to create proprietary content on work-for-hire basis that can be owned by the University/College based on a fixed cost.
- Instructional Design: iDL will convert the content with the specific instructional design model suggested by the University/College.
- Multiple Learning Models: iDL’s trained instructional staff will also create 3-5 different learning models to enable Adaptive Learning.
- Intelligent Assessment: iDL’s staff will also create competency assessment questions for continuous intelligent feedback and dynamic revision course.
- Deployment: iDL;s trained IT staff will upload course onto iDL’s hosted web servers optimized for the best online performance.
- Hosting and Maintenance: iDL trained staff then will host the course website and provide continuous maintenance.
- Reporting: iDL generates detail reports on the student activities, performance and grades for University/College administrators and for the accreditation agencies.
The courses can be developed with two ownership options:
- Exclusive Ownership
- Licensed Custom Course from a Published Content
Option 1. Exclusive Ownership
Cost of Course: In this case, iDL will hire expert authors and content writers to create custom content where the ownership of the converted course and related content will be exclusively granted to the College/University. iDL will also provide timely upgrade to the course content for small upgrade fees to meet changing requirements of the curriculum or certification authority (e.g. PMI)
Technology Fee: The course access and course workbook down load will be provided at per student per course prices. The workbook will be provided in the hardcopy form as PDF download for the student. The price also includes basic 9AM-5Pm Monday-Friday tech support. . (iDL does provide volume discounts on the technology fees on case-by-case basis)
Option 2: License the Custom Course:
Cost of Course: In this case, iDL will obtain license for the content form the leading publishers and may also receive partial funding from publisher to customize an existing textbook or workbook content to the curriculum and syllabus provided by the University/College. The customized content is then converted into an adaptive learning course by iDL staff.
The custom course developed based on the publisher content will be with the agreement that the converted course will be available to University/College for as long as they offer the course and purchase companion textbook/workbook to go with the online course.
In this case, although the content is not exclusive, the custom course and the look and feel for the course is made unique for your University/College.
Technology Fees: The technology fees for the course will be charged per student per course. The price includes basic 9AM-5PM Monday-Friday tech support. (iDL does provide volume discounts on the technology fees on case-by-case basis).
Textbook Fees: The publishers will provide the text/workbook book at the 25% discount of the published purchase price and ship the textbook/workbook to the students registered in the course directly or to a
designated address provided by the College/University.
Revenue Generation Potential: The adaptive learning programs developed on turnkey basis with iDL provide an easy and low risk entry point for Universities and Colleges to develop online programs. A typical college or corporate education center of the University can deploy new online certificate and degree program with no pain involved in the design, development, deployment and support of the online program. This NO PAIN –RAPID DEPLOYMENT approach enables you to enter into a market segment that was not available to you earlier, and become market leader.
For a typical college offering an adaptive online master program in management with a price point of around $18,000 the revenue generation potential with adaptive learning systems is depicted in figure 1.
Figure 1. The example of revenue generation potential for adaptive online learning programs.
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