The following course has been added to the LearningMeasure.com course catalog:

• MATH201 - First Order Differential Equations

This is the second course in a planned series of courses to cover the topic. There have been some long-standing requests for such a series of courses. The remainder of the series will be released one course at a time as they are developed. The next course planned for this series is on applications of first order ODEs.

As always, we seek your feedback on what courses to develop, and what priority is placed on developing a particular course. If you would like to see a particular course developed, please let us know. The more requests, the more likely it is to move to the top of the list to be developed.

The tools now exist in both educator and employer accounts to be able to construct full courses on LearningMeasure.com. These courses are available to all designated employees or students.You can now create courses for your employees or students only, to supplement existing LearningMeasure.com content.

If you are willing to give up the rights to your course material and we agree to post the course in our general catalog, you will be allowed to have a consultant profile visible on the third page of the course, a small sales pitch on the last page of the course, and be credited for free accounts depending on the material provided.

If you have an educator or employer account, we hope you will give us feedback on this new feature so that we can improve it to make it more useful to you.
There will be more planned features added to assist with course creation over the next few months as they are completed. Clearly there needs to be some online help implemented to assist with course development, and that is our first priority. We will also be adding a feature where one can allow designated individuals to edit course content from student accounts when going through the course.

Now educator accounts have the same course creation capability as employer accounts as described in the previous post. When the final piece of the course creation process is finished, both employers and educators will be able to create full courses. This has been a feature that we have long intended to implement, but other priorities have been delaying its implementaion.

The last piece is a bit more complicated to implement, and we are in the development process, but it will take a bit of time before it is complete. When complete, LearningMeasure.com will provide essentially a simple and inexpensive online learning management system (LMS) that can be used to develop your own courses to be added to LearningMeasure.com content as part of an overall training and education program.

Added more tools for course creation from within employer accounts. Now employers can

• Edit the course description
• Enter course metadata
• Enter the course references - shown when “Ref” button pressed
• Enter the course glossary - shown when the “Glossary” button pressed
• Edit the course exam

This is an incremental step towards being able to create whole courses online within LearningMeasure.com.

What remains is to enter the course outline (what is seen when the “Index” button pressed) and course pages, which will take a bit longer to complete.  Of course when completed, this will be added to educator accounts.

A long requested feature has been added to LearningMeasure.com, certificates of completion. I have been reluctant to do this, as it would be difficult to create a certificate that couldn’t be spoofed. What I have decided to do is to create a certificate that explains how to validate it.

When you complete a course a gold medal ( ) appears next to the course number in the screen that shows the courses you have signed up for. Clicking on this icon will cause a PDF certificate of completion to be emailed to the email address that you entered when you registered as a student. This email address can be changed in your settings if it is incorrect.

On this certificate is the URL of your online resume, which contains your training record. One can validate the certificate by verifying the course appears in the training record, as is explained on the certificate. This is only visible however if your subscription is current.

We hope you find this a useful feature.

We have made some more changes to the homepage of LearningMeasure.com. It is now possible to register as a student on the homepage if desired.

A new category of classes have been added to the course catalog. The first in a series of fundamental physics classes has been entered. It has been requested that some of the basic physics that are the foundation of measurement be included in some of the course material. We plan on a fairly extensive series of basic physics courses to be developed over the next few years, in addition to other courses on our list. The first class in this section of the course catalog is

PHYS50 -  Introduction to Vectors

A vector quantity is one that has magnitude and direction. This course covers some of the basics of vectors and mathematical operations that can be performed on them.

Spent a good part of today implementing features and making bug fixes to the code that runs LearningMeasure.com.
Finished implementing educator entered training feature. Also all places where one can view training records now shows all employer and educator entered content.

Fixed some bugs with bid review mechanism where bidders resume and training record information was being displayed incorrectly.

Officially ended the one week trial period, no new accounts will have a free trial period, instead they will have access to a portion of the course catalog for free to base their decision to decide on subscribing.

Please, if any of you out there have a feature request, or know of any bugs, or want us to develop a specific course, let us know. We value feedback, and use it to decide what to implement next.