A distance learning project or online community
project has six primary components for
implementation. Here is an overview of each
component, along with the services we offer in each
area.
Content
Creating quality content is a crucial part of
any distance learning program or online
community. Digital Reef creates course content
with attention to:
- Media and delivery (live, Internet,
other)
- Market position, branding &
identity
- Various learning styles
- Meta-messages
- Embedded sales techniques when
desired
- Audience and environment
- Simple models for accurate understanding
of complex concepts
- Congruent, specific and accurate
terminology
Designing courses, complete with writing,
editing, graphics and illustration, is a
particular strength at Digital Reef Services.
Our on-staff linguists, writers, and course
developers would love to take your project to
the highest caliber.
Web
To put a course on the web, you need to
create an attractive and functional package of
information including:
- Designs & layout of web pages and
course pages
- HTML, JavaScript, PHP, etc.
- Multiplatform compatibility, multiple
browser compatibility
Online courses can take advantage of
multimedia to enhance your messages, heighten
impression, hook attention, and improve
comprehension:
- Custom features like special tools,
online calculators, "toys", simulators, and
other interactive experiences
- Animation, live graphics, video and audio
production
- FLASH, JAVA
- Interactivity with other web sites for
research and course work
The team of technical developers at Digital
Reef excel at what they do, and we specialize in
creating new designs for client or course. We
don't force you to recycle old or generic
templates; the course artwork, web design and
functionality are integrated to produce an
exceptionally smooth and delightful user
experience.
Market
Once your course or community is online,
you'll want to let the Internet world know it is
there. Digital Reef Services specialists can
help you establish an impressive and effective
online presence. We'll match Internet marketing
tactics to your overall marketing plan and offer
you support with important things like:
- Search engine & subject index engine
registration
- News group presence & promotion
- Opt-in email lists
- Cross-promotional programs
- Booster sites
- Web rings
- Web advertising, and more.
Our team can teach your staff how to do these
Internet marketing activities, or we can keep up
on them for you.
Business
Systems
An online course or community is so much more
than just accessible content. You need systems
to track and manage the people taking the
courses. Advanced, easy to use online staff
pages let you see what your course members are
doing, registration reports, traffic reports,
and more.
Of course, E-Commerce systems and proven
revenue models are a key to making a course
offing profitable. Digital Reef has established
business systems in place to make being online
efficient and manageable.
- Selecting revenue models
- E-Commerce system / shopping cart
- Member registration & tracking
- Course access control
- Member management reports &
functions
- Custom database functions
Learning
Systems
There are many ways of providing distance
learning. As technology and connectivity
increases, we have the opportunity to combine
technologies to produce an effective,
supportive, and interactive learning experience.
Digital Reef goes beyond text and pictures,
allowing you to select any or all of these
current technologies to add to your course:
- Message Forums for each course or
chapter
- Live chat rooms with students and
instructors
- Audio content
- Video content
- Animations and interactive
illustrations
- Interactive Exams, computer or instructor
scoring
Once the content has been developed, you'll
want to be able to update it and expand it
easily. Digital Reef offers Dynamic Content
technology for courses hosted with us, and it
allows instructors or staff to instantly update
the course materials online easily, anytime. No
knowledge of HTML, FTP, or other Internet
protocols is needed; simple web screens allow
you to change and update content with a
password.
- Instructors can update online course
content themselves anytime
It means that maintaining your online course
is easier, more timely and more cost effective
than ever.
Hosting
You might have Internet servers, firewalls,
high capacity full-time Internet connections,
uninterruptible power supplies, and server
management systems in your company, and those
systems may be available for your use and
courses. If so, Digital Reef Services can create
"portable" courses than can run on those
systems, in-house, on your company's private
LAN. If not, we do have that equipment, and we
offer it especially for hosting online courses
and communities:
- Custom high-capacity hosting
- Corporate LAN or 3rd-party hosting
- CD-ROM or electronic package options
- VPN, private access or public access
hosting support
- Complete site & data management
service
- Email for students, instructors and
staff
- Technical support services
Your
Team
Time to get your project up and running
quickly, easily, and for less expense than you
thought possible. Time to add the professional
skills of Digital Reef Services to your staff,
as needed, expandable when you need it, zero
costs when you don't.
Do what's right for your company. Let us do
what we are best at so you can do what you are
best at.
Tell us about your
project today.
