Open LMS Integrates Skills Assessment Tools

Open source learning management system provider Open LMS has announced a partnership with Ease Learning to incorporate the latter's Skillways skills assessment tools into the Open LMS platform. The integration will provide instructors with access to performance metrics such as heatmaps of cohort progress and individual learners' levels of skill mastery.

"We are excited to partner with Ease Learning as we've found tremendous value in its tools," said Phill Miller, managing director of Open LMS, in a statement. "Skillways enhances our world-class LMS solutions and allows clients to create more flexible learning pathways. Through this partnership, we are honing in on our organizations' aligned missions of empowering our clients to meet education and workplace learning needs by forging the path to make building and measuring skills more achievable."

The Skillways platform also provides tools for designing modular, stackable learning paths that align with program and institutional goals, as well as real-time outcome mapping to support the accreditation process.

For more information on Open LMS, visit the company website here. To learn more about Skillways, visit the Ease Learning site.

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