LIQVID focuses its business on research. All aspects of our business come from a combination of innovative forward-thinking ideas and current expectations established in research. We share this information to help you learn about the endless possibilities of running an efficient and effective training organization. To achieve this, LIQVID has set up a research initiative. Named CSRG (Corporate Solution Research Group), this group's work addresses multiple aspects of learning with activities falling within two main categories (broadly stated, eLearning is about adapting technologies to enhance learning outcomes):
- the development of technologies to more efficiently produce and manage learning resources (this is mostly an industry alignment: technologies to reduce development time for creating "learning resources") and
- the development of teaching methodologies adapted to the learner's cognitive and social behaviours to enable more efficient means of learning (this is more closely aligned with academic and learner-specific settings: technologies and resources to enhance learning outcomes).
Within the first category, the Group's activities and competencies revolve around learning objects, repositories, specifications and standards for meta-data, quality metrics and evaluation, workflow and process enhancements, digital rights management, interoperability of learning resources / systems, learning resource management for enhanced discoverability / retrieval and automation processes.
In the second category, the Group's focus revolves around human aspects to knowledge building through the development of technologies to support evolving social paradigms (for instance, transforming tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge through social networking shifts and technologies). This can involve building the shortest learning paths for learners to change knowledge states while adapting the learning experience to learner needs, preferences and patterns. Means used to enable such an approach include collaborative filtering, knowledge sharing / communities / mapping, user profiling for learning environment adaptation, collaboration tools / technologies and gaming / simulations for learning.
Learning is not just about information gathering, but also about filtering, contextualizing, analyzing and internalizing. Historically, technological frameworks have failed to properly address this (modelling themselves after traditional educational frameworks), so future activities of the Group will focus on the development of technological frameworks to enable new and emerging "learning paradigms".
This is how CSRG functions: 
The members of the group come from very different backgrounds covering instructional design, computer science and design, media design, and marketing - but they all share the same innovative thinking.
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