82 Features of Hospital U’s RAD “Turn Key” iPod Learning System

1. Leadership/professional development content: 1200 mobile modules from the best content sources such as Harvard Business, Fuqua, Wharton, Center for Creative Leadership. More coming online each week.

2. Clinical content: 250 clinical modules for nursing, more online each week.

3. Physician portal:  Allowing physicians to acccess more than 600 quality podcasts-many for CME from JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, etc…

4. Where physicians have access to a community of 65,000 physicians-who exchange clinical insights, observations, and review cases in real time.

5. Unlimited access to ALL content for ALL employees.

6. Unlimited enterprise distribution with NO digital rights management-means unlike much other mobile content, instead of allowing only 5 downloads per content source, any module can be distributed literally to tens of thousands, including your patients, as often as they like

7. Our optimum compression for mobile learning-video will be as high quality as high definition, while using a fraction of the space

8. Optimum sound quality-allowing perfectly clear sound, while not taxing the space of your iPod

9. Our custom designed lending library kits for the unit. No need to buy iPods for all employees

10. Every iPods is engraved for your organization

11. Business case ROI for senior management. We will provide our research, and all presentation data, showing some of the following:

12. Hospital U’s RAD iPod Learning outperforming traditional e-learning 6:1 for mandatory education as measured by cost avoidance

    Total cost of ownership is 50 times less costly than traditional pc based e-learning

13. Multimedia (video and audio learning) is 3 times more effective than page turner variety-still the predominant e-learning delivery in healthcare

14. Finally, a way to move resource intensive audio and video off the your internal IT network

15. And our Software as a Service model moves your mobile learning demands off your IT group’s headache list

16. Rapid repurpose model to convert your video mobile learning objects into your traditional e-learning courseware

17. Ability to repurpose your video/audio learning into any mobile source including Blackberry, Palm, cell phone, Sony PSP, etc…

18. Ability to design wireless mobile content for iPhone

19. Rapid video production model-we can help you produce professional quality video learning content for 1/3^rd the cost of traditional video production

20. We provide you with a unique story boarding model specifically for mobile learning to help you streamline internal production

21. Competency assessment-Integration of mobile content with your existing learning management system or…

22. if you don’t have an LMS, you can use our award winning LMS for 70% the cost of our competitors

23. Instant access to your content. No need to login, password, disable pop-up blockers, adjust your virus protection, set your screen resolution, etc…

24. All content is bookmarked-stop a video or audio lesson, and when you turn on your iPod, you are automatically back where you left off.

25. Users manage all iPod content the same way they manage their song library, with Apple iTunes, the ultimate content management application for media. For learning, Hospital U has made several enhancements…

26. User data. Graphs that will provide administrators with usage data

27. Build summary notes right into the iPod audio course. For example, when your learners listen an audio podcast, they can also view the courses notes on their iPod as they are listening, and have these notes on their PC.

28. Supports text documents. Now, download and access any Word document, PowerPoint, in PDF format, as if they were accessing audio or video media. So the system really does become a knowledge management system

29. Tagged metadata makes your content incredibly easy to search, and find fast.

30. Move far beyond training. Our RAD learning model gives your users something that a PC can not, a true electronic performance support system. You users can have thousands of knowledge objects in a device half the size of a credit card, and find any piece of knowledge in seconds.

31. Hospital U’s Store Front for remote access

32. Hospital U’s Department Store format for multiple content sources

33. Automatic subscription (new module automatically is downloaded when user syncs iPod)

34. Automatic content refresh (content can be set to disappear after a predetermined number of plays)

35. Custom branding

36. Secure site with password protection-for premium and private content

37. Hospital U’s ‘Secure Enterprise Playlist” software-Dynamically manage all learner groups, and assign them content on the fly

38. Hospital U is an Apple Affiliate-all legal procedures have been executed in partnership with Apple

    e.g., Enterprise iTunes site licenses are in place

39. Unlimited learning Blog pages to guide the mobile learning experience, with many Web 2.0 feature, including

40. Seamless audio, video support integrated with YouTube

41. Five optional models for technical implementation, spectrum from non invasive to minimal

42. “1 to many” distribution model so no internal PC’s are required

43. Secure iTunes environment

44. 24/7 Help desk for all your end users

45. Unlimited users (including patients) for no added costs

46. Production suite of tools included for your internal training team, including:

47. Audio recording and editing

48. Video editing

49. PowerPoint to iPod conversion software

50. DVD to iPod converter

51. VHS to iPod converter

52. YouTube to iPod converter

53. PDF conversion software

54. Production quality microphone for internal podcast creation

55. Portable recorder plug in for iPod-for rapid podcast creation on the fly

56. USB Backups of large content libraries for instant uploads

57. Internal marketing kit included

58. Full documentation of all audiences, internal content creators and end users

59. After grant period is over, costs never increase

60. Program that will permit multiple iPods off of one iTunes

61. Hospital U’s Mobile Learning Research Lab

62. Some of the next generation applications include mobile learning for iPod Touch, iPhone and Blackberry

63. In development, mobile testing for iTouch, iPhone

64. Global solution right out of the box: Device and Software interface comes in 21 languages

65. We develop mobile learning applications in 28 different languages

66. Learning portal comes with high quality e-learning end user training.

67. Content is aligned with The Leadership Architect (Lominger) 67 leadership competencies

68. Content is aligned with American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) competency model

69. “The Easy Button” learning strategy (coined by one of our clients)-Maximum 7 day turn-key implementation

70. One stop shop-discount on all hardware and peripherals (e.g., on all iPods, giveaway earphones, speakers, car adapters, hard cases, TV adapters, etc…)

71. Government subsidized, so complete enterprise deployment at a fraction of the cost of market value. As one group of learning executives recently expressed, “That long pause is because we are in shock of the low cost. It sounds too good to be true. It’s a fantastic solution. How do we sign up…today”.

72. 80 hours of hands on consulting with a senior iPod learning consultant

73. Much lower project costs, but Hospital U is well known in the industry for our incredible service.

74. Trojan Horse Learning Model: With 1-click Access to the Apple’s legendary iTunes store, users can not only access thousands of additional free podcasts, but also they can buy entertainment (songs, movies, TV shows, etc…)
75. Choice of 5 iPods for 5 different learning applications
76. Professional podcasting studio services via a phone call-Your subject matter experts will call a phone number, and within minutes we will record and produce your own professional sounding podcast
77. Make your podcasts sound professional, choose from a variety of our non copyrighted music from our massive library for your own signature introduction and exit music
78. To supplement the business/organizational specific content needed to fill the gaps in a competency model, we work with you to identify the right internal subject matter expert and develop the content around his/her knowledge.
79. We will even design your graphics for your series of podcasts
80. We will even rapidly develop assessments and job aids that go along with your modules, to support training initiatives
81. In major metropolitan markets, with our affiliation with Apple, your employees will be able to visit an Apple Store for training, consultation and support.
82. Use an optional ultracompact digital camera to shoot video on the go, that will automatically convert full motion video into iTunes format.

written by Joey Schwartzman