The fast track to e-learning content: LECTURNITY, the award-winning Rapid Authoring Tool.
The high-speed, low-cost way to get your point across. To any audience you choose. LECTURNITY not only helps you deliver your lecture, it also turns it into multimedia e-learning content. Together with your PowerPoint slides, your handwriting, your personality. And why not add test questions, and interactivity? Once you’ve finished planning, disseminate your ideas efficiently — our rapid authoring tool gives you easy access to the latest media technology.
The number one choice of professors and professionals: Without it, a modern university would be unthinkable. And now, more and more companies are also discovering the advantages of LECTURNITY. Hardly surprising, when you think about it: this authoring tool not only helps you record lectures or presentations in no time at all, it also gets your interactive training courses up and running with maximum efficiency.
LECTURNITY: The latest News
LECTURNITY wins three awards within three months
IMC AG awarded “Innovation Prize 2008” and “European eLearning Award” together with KFZ4you
Saarbruecken, 11th March 2008 – IMC AG, the leading supplier of learning technologies in Europe, has returned from CeBIT with two more awards. LECTURNITY 2, IMC’s Rapid Authoring Tool, was awarded the “EureleA” for its contribution to an innovative project at a vocational school. The “Initiative Medium-Sized Businesses” awarded LECTURNITY 2 the “Innovation Prize 2008” for it being “the most innovative and most interesting solution for the SME sector”. Together with “digita 2008”, LECTURNITY 2 has already won three awards since January this year.
EureleA – highly respected European award
The EureleA was awarded for the fifth time in by now seven categories. More than 70 applications from nine European countries reached the responsible “Institute for Computers in Education” at HTW Karlsruhe. The first prize in the category “Private/Non-Profit Organisation” was awarded to the Vocational College in Iserlohn. It is testing an innovative didactic concept for young trainees from the car industry. Mechatronic technicians benefit from valuable eLearning-modules during their classes by means of a Web 2.0 tool and rapid authoring – LECTURNITY 2 – in order to continue learning at work or at home. The trainees are actively involved in the design and the content of learning materials. As a result, they are extremely motivated to adapt media competence and production skills. The interactive movies and texts are open to the public (www.kfz4me.de) and can be used by other training centres.
Innovation Prize
The Innovation Prize of the “Initiative Medium-Sized Businesses” was in demand as never before in its five-year history. More than 1,600 applications competed in 33 special and 16 regional categories for the award. The jury, consisting of 40 scientists, experts and journalists, judged according to criteria such as level of innovation, utility and suitability for the SME sector. The jury appreciated LECTURNITY 2 as “the most innovative and most interesting solution for the SME sector”.
The CEO of IMC AG, Dr. Wolfgang Kraemer, is very pleased with the awards. “This shows that LECTURNITYhas made its way to the business world and especially to the SME sector. We owe this to a great extent to our clients. Together, we have permanently enhanced the product.”
Comfortable Authoring Tool
LECTURNITY 2 is a rapid authoring software. The tool helps to produce learning content in a programming-free manner. Users can record presentations and lectures of all kinds. Handwritten annotations on presentation slides as well as video and audio streams are simultaneously recorded and integrated into a multimedia document. LECTURNITY 2 productions can be further edited and modified so that linear, time-based recording documents turn into structured learning objects. LECTURNITY 2 is easy to use; assessments and tests provide the learner with feedback and various ways of interacting with the content. The automatic indexing of information on presentation slides is the basis for effective search and retrieval possibilities within the learning documents.
“In view of the release 3.0 of LECTURNITY, which is due at the end of April 2008, these awards are an incentive as well as support for our position to convince more clients of the advantages of LECTURNITY 2”, Kraemer summarises.
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