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In Sept. 2008, we released the SofTutor version 3 - SofTutor Learning System which is our first open learning system. Now anyone can create their own training and share their content with other SofTutor users.

This time our goal was to make a learning system so easy to use that a child (8+) could use it to create content, learn from it and collaborate with their peers, any time, any where. Teachers can teach students and as students learn they can teach each other and share learning. Furthermore this new version of SofTutor reduces the time it takes to make content from days and weeks to minutes. Content can be created in real time by anyone ages 8 and up.

Since 1994, SofTutor has maintained a 99.976% customer Satisfaction rating from over 250,000 users*!

Take your Training and make it INTERACTIVE!

Typical training teaches in three steps: 1) Lecture or Read, 2) Remember, 3) Try it Later!

SofTutor combines step 1 and 3 into one step, "Try It Now!" our 100% Learn by Doing method!

• No Lecture
• No Frustration trying to Remember
• Learn up to 3 Times Faster with Higher Retention
• Follow-along, Learn-by-doing method
  • Engages Your Students and Keeps Their Attention
• Students Enjoy Learning with SofTutor

Learner Benefits:

• Share training with others
• Collaborate Teacher <-> Student, Student <-> Student, Student <-> Parent & Student <-> Web
• Learn 3-5x Faster 
• 100% follow-along video format makes training more enjoyable 
• Learn just what you want to learn in seconds with our quick search feature
  

Instructor Benefits

• Create Interactive Content 2-7x Faster. 
• Convert your existing content to run in SofTutor 
• Mix and match content from various sources to easily customize your training
• License content from NVSI, 3rd parties or use open courseware content with SofTutor
• Share content with other SofTutor users teachers, schools, parents, web or students
  

Features

• Open learning platform
• Create your own training, technical support or license content from others
• Easy to mashup training and technical support to build customized training
• Easily customizable from standalone, classroom, school, district, state or web
• Supports any video format from tv, vcr, video camera, cell phone to screen video
• Support for many industry standard capture and editing programs
• Built on Microsoft .Net platform using standard Windows Media Video

Future Plans

• Other video formats will be supported
• Migrating SofTutor OnLine v2 features into SofTutor Learning System v3
  • Pre testing and custom curriculum builder
  • Permissions user, group, department
  • Usage reports
• Share via XML
• ...and more

Your students will forget they are even learning. They become part of the training from the moment they press play.

Fun Facts:

• We made 27 new titles. Many were made in less than an hour.
• We converted Google Sketchup training to SLS3 within 4 hours including download, converting, checking in and uploading.
• An 8 year old, made training for her friends on webkinz.com in less than 45 min.
• During jury duty one of our developers used SLS3 to as a front end to the Unreal Tournament III Level designer DVD and within 30 minutes taught himself how to design interactive 3d levels.
• AutoCAD 2008 3D for Dummies content was converted to SLS3 within 2 hours for a demo for publisher.
• We installed SLS3 at a Fortune 100 customers site and taught them how to customize training, producing one title that was accessible by everyone on the network in minutes.
• NVSI is in the process of partnering with many other 3rd party content developers and will offer many more add-on titles to SLS3 in the coming months.
• For a demo to a software publisher, we linked their video content from their website into SLS3 to make a training product We used their original content without modifying or moving it.
• For a future SLS3 update we mashed up our training with lectures from Harvard and Stanford, leaving all content in its original locations and format. We can build an unlimited amount of customized training by reusing and resequencing existing content.
• In two days we took queries from google video and built over 100 hours of training in 3 languages covering over 400 topics of computer programming for windows by linking content on the web into SLS3 and creating follow along learning.
  
  

Compatible with Thousands of Titles:

New Vision Software, Incorporated is also working with creativecommons.org cclearn division's open courseware search engine and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseWare project as well as other groups to help locate additional content that can be checked into SLS3. SLS3's open learning platform makes it possible to mix and match content from many sources around the world to create custom content. During our beta testing we mixed space planning lectures from Harvard University and structural analysis lectures from MIT with architectural drawing content. We hope that our users will work together to share information among themselves and encourage anyone who makes content to license their content under the guidelines of creativecommons.org.

 

Requirements: Microsoft .net 2.0 and windows media player 9 or better.

* - From 1994 - 2007, SofTutor products were sold with a money back guarantee, our 99.976% satisfaction is based on returns received vs licenses kept.