The Learning Cycle

The learning cycle followed in the Oracle E-Business Suite model appears in the
figure
below.
You can use Oracle Learning Management in tandem with other Oracle Applications
to
support just as much of the learning cycle as you require.
Setup Stages
1. Create administrator groups to restrict administrators' access to learning
categories
and folders.
2. Define the competency requirements of your business: define the competencies
(qualifications, knowledge, and experience) your enterprise requires from its
current staff and future applicants.
3. Assign competency requirements to organizations, jobs, and positions: assign your
general and specific business requirements to particular structures within your
enterprise.
4. Assess competency achievements and gaps: evaluate your current workers and
applicants, then conduct a development needs analysis to identify the gaps.
5. Design or identify development courses: develop new internal courses or identify
external activities that can supply the competencies required to close the gaps.
6. Price courses: create budgets and create price lists, if appropriate.
7. Group courses into learning paths and categories: design your catalog to
accommodate the needs of organizations and individuals.
8. Identify resources and suppliers: identify the equipment, venues, instructors, and
other resources required to run your courses, and build up a database of resources
you can book.
User Stages
1. Create classes and book resources: create online and offline classes and book the
resources required to run them. Manage payments to resource suppliers.
2. Manage charges and commercial relationships.
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3. Enroll learners in classes.
4. Manage enrollments and cancellations: handle multiple enrollments using waiting
lists and confirmations, issuing standard letters as required. Invoice paying
customers.
5. Record attendance and achievements: after classes, record results including test
scores, attendance levels, and competencies attained.
6. Evaluate courses: assess their effectiveness and compare actual revenues and
spending with budgets.
7. Appraise learners: evaluate the longer term impact of learning management.
8. Create learner groups to group learners based on their common interest or job
responsibility. You can use learner groups to give learner access to specific training.
The OLM Learning Cycle
Setup Decisions
Before you set up Oracle Learning Management so that users can perform their
tasks,
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we recommend that you plan carefully.
The responsibility for planning and setting up the different stages of the OLM learning
cycle varies from enterprise to enterprise. Typically, stages 1 and 2 may be the joint
responsibility of several departments, stages 3 and 14 may be the responsibility of
the
human resources department, while stages 4 to 13 lie more clearly within the domain
of
learning management.
OLM is integrated with Oracle Human Resources, and together these applications can
support all stages of the learning cycle.
You may not be concerned with every stage in the cycle. For example, commercial
learning service providers need not identify internal training requirements nor
maintain
detailed learner records. They mainly focus on the maintenance of schedules and the
management of enrollments and financial transactions.
Internal training departments that do not open up their classes to external learners
on a
commercial basis may be less interested in the management of price lists and other
financial information. To support internal accounting practices, however, the
application does enable cross-charging.