Insights success The 10 Fastest Growing Education Solution Provider Companies november2016

dominKnow:
Connecting the Thoughts
The problems we see in the
education space today are the
same ones we’ve been
witnessing for the past 20 years –
limited development resources, poor
use of existing content, compromised
learner access, and an inability to gain
insight into a student’s interaction with
learning material. dominKnow
Learning Systems is one of the very
few organizations that focuses hard on
all these areas.
Providing an integrated suite of tools
and processes that support
collaborative content creation,
dominKnow allows educators to easily
create, share, and re-use content across
any number of projects - for use inclass,
on-line, or as student reference
material. Teachers can fully leverage
the effort they (and their colleagues)
have put into creating learning
material, students can access it in
multiple ways depending on the time
of need, and everyone can gain insight
into what content is being accessed and
how.
dominKnow: Content Authoring and
Publishing for Teams
dominKnow Learning Systems is a
content authoring and publishing
solutions provider that believes you
shouldn’t just build learning content
and forget about it. They feel strongly
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that it’s all about creating and sharing
great learning experiences - and then
maximizing that content’s use and
value in as many ways possible.
They know that a lot of material
developed in the educational space is
stuck in inflexible pages, trapped in
traditional formal learning vehicles like
eLearning courses or classroom
presentations. As a result, learning
content (and the time and effort that
goes into creating it) is often poorly
leveraged.
Their cloud-based content authoring
and publishing platform allows
educators to collaboratively gather,
design, create, share, reuse, deliver and
measure content that can be used to
help students at multiple times of need
-from formal through to just-in-time
learning.
Luke Hickey: Passionate about
Technology
Luke Hickey, CEO, dominKnow has
almost two decades of experience in
the Software and Information
Technology industry. Luke asserts, “we
are a learning company that builds
software and training solutions, as
opposed to a software company that
builds products to develop learning
content.”
Luke shares that dominKnow’s
strengths are built upon their
experience - both as continuous
learners and as educational content
creators. Their passion as learners
means their instructional and system
design philosophies place the student
at the center of the learning experience,
while their long history as content
developers has taught them the “power
of many”, and how to best leverage
collaboration, sharing, and content reuse
in the learning content design
process.
Leveraging Technology
There’s been a rush for authoring tool
vendors to get on the responsive
content bandwagon. That’s great news
for those wanting to develop material
that can be accessed on multiple
devices and used in multiple ways, but
Luke and his team know that all
responsive tools are not created equal.
Most authoring tool vendors enforce a
dumbed-down approach to learning
content development. Templates, fillin-the-blank,
or block-based tools help
get stuff out the door and meet the
responsive check-box, but they often
don’t satisfy the learning need.
Luke and his team’s approach is to
allow for all the same powerful, rich
content development they are known
for, while providing an intelligent
content authoring framework with
dynamic themes and components that