IBM Workplace Collaborative Learning is an enhanced IBM Workplace product and part of the integrated collaborative environment delivered by IBM Workplace Collaboration Services. It provides learning services that help organizations manage their training programs more efficiently and integrates learning resources on the desktop. Integration with other Workplace Collaboration Services capabilities delivers blended learning experiences and provides students with enhanced tools such as course discussion areas, document sharing, Web conferencing, and chat rooms. This IBM Redbook serves as a comprehensive and in-depth guide to IBM Workplace Collaborative Learning, discussing how to install, configure, and effectively manage learning modules, resources and, skills within your IBM Workplace Collaborative Environment. This IBM Redbook provides details on how to manage skills effectively within the system, and how to leverage built-in reporting capabilities. Finally, it provides a realistic scenario to demonstrate the typical usage pattern for students using the IBM Workplace Collaboration Services version 2.6 user interface.

This IBM Redbook introduces the new IBM Lotus Learning Management System into the growing world of eLearning products and systems. We wrote it to help you plan for, install, configure, and use the LMS to meet your company's education requirements. We begin with a discussion of what a learning management system is. We describe how this new LMS contains a WebSphere-based architecture. We list the requirements and prerequisites for supporting this eLearning environment. Then we tell you of our installation experiences, and show how to configure and customize the system for your company. Lastly, we give you some tips on how to adminster and use the LMS. We end with a case study that illustrates these points. Anyone who is reponsible for choosing and implementing a learning management system will want to read this publication.