Integrated Learning Systems (PC Mag basic introduction)
Compass Knowledge Group (formerly Jostens ILS)
http://www.compassknowledge.com
Compass Knowledge Group is a premier provider of distance education and e-learning solutions that puts the web to work on behalf of the working professional. Through collaboration with fully accredited colleges and universities, Compass focuses on several niche areas of the global distance learning marketplace: healthcare, education and criminal justice.
PLATO Learning (since 1963!)
http://www.platolearning.co.uk/
PLATO Learning is a developer of interactive educational software delivering measurable results. PLATO software has helped over 10 million learners worldwide, often in support of homeschooling.
If you feel the pressure to produce evidence of results has never been greater, PLATO can help you. PLATO’s objective-based courseware helps learners gain the specific skills they need to achieve success, and helps you to track and report their progress.
PLATO courseware can be used “off-the-shelf”. However, PLATO? Pathways is easy-to-use software that offers instructors the ability truly to individualise learning programmes. PLATO? Pathways is an open, manual system that helps you to assign resources, track learner performance and document the results.
You can deliver PLATO instructional software via local area networks (LANs), standalone computers (including laptops), intranets or the Internet. With PLATO’s multiple delivery systems, learning is no longer confined to a lab or a classroom. It can happen any time, anywhere, in a flexible, open-entry/open-exit format.
Renaissance Learning in the UK
http://www.renaissance-learning.co.uk/
This system provides, “literacy and numeracy solutions for primary and secondary schools across the UK. Our mission is to accelerate learning for all children, of all ability levels and ethnic and social backgrounds.”
MathXpert
http://www.mathXpert.com
ILS for secondary level … Alegebra and Calculus
NovaNET
http://www.novanet.com/
NovaNET is a comprehensive computer-based education and communications network that offers thousands of hours of self-paced, interactive curriculum for secondary and adult learners. Click ENTER to learn how NovaNET has helped increase test scores, reduce drop-out rates and energize thousands of students in a wide variety of educational settings
Successmaker (formerly CCC corp.)
http://www.rm.com/Primary/Products/Story.asp?cref=PS43475
SuccessMaker is a learning system for students of all abilities, enabling teachers to provide differentiated and individualised tuition across the classroom. It develops basic literacy and numeracy skills by allowing students to progress at their own pace.
Research on ILS
Learning Solution’s statement on ILS research
British Evaluation of ICT, some success
ILS impact on phonological awareness in Kindergarten
ILS impact on low achieving middle schoolers in West Viginia (click html or pdf to download full text of this article from linked page)