Case Studies

The Universidad Continental in Peru stands out among the top seven universities in the country for its modern and innovative educational offer. The institution integrates five faculties, 28 undergraduate careers, two specializations, and 10 postgraduate programs. Students can choose from three modalities: face-to-face, face-to-face and distance, and fully remote instruction, offering a multimodal and multicampus education. Discover how the university has achieved a strong digital transformation for its distance education offer, which is supported through Open LMS, its eLearning partner.

Tshwane North Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) College in South Africa transitioned to Open LMS EDU in 2020 to offer eLearning to 2,000 initial users and meet the needs of learners through a blended learning approach.

ENS Escola de Negócios e Seguros (ENS School of Business and Insurance or ENS), is a technical, graduate, and post-graduate institution offering courses related to insurance, risk management, reinsurance, and private pension funds, as well as topics encompassing business, marketing, and economics. With its main branch located in Rio de Janeiro and another instructional center in the country’s bustling São Paulo, the institute had traditionally delivered courses in-person at their institutes, through face-to-face corporate training, and some online up until 2020.

Mount Carmel College-Baler (MCCB) is a higher education institution in the province of Aurora, Philippines. Founded in 1948, the College began offering formative education and now offers Bachelor’s programs in Business Administration, Criminology, Teaching, and Administrative studies, among others.

The Technical Institute of Professional Studies (ITEP) is a vocational training center founded in Madrid, Spain, with more than 40 years of experience in the area of higher education. ITEP aims to aid adult learners to improve or complement their level of studies, in order to access better job opportunities. To date, ITEP has provided higher education to more than 20,000 students.

In February 2020, as the possibility of a national lockdown in Italy was becoming more evident, ITS-ICT Piedmont Director, Giulio Genti, contacted Learning Solution, an eLearning platform solutions company based in Torino, Italy, and Open LMS Channel Partner, to set up the organization’s digital learning environment to offer uninterrupted learning during the foreseeable quarantine period.

College of Insurance is a professional training institution that specializes in insurance and pensions training, providing official certification for agents primarily in Kenya, Eastern Africa. It’s the only college of its kind in the country, with two main campuses, one in the capital city of Nairobi, and another in Mombasa, a coastal city. The college administers exams—in-person and now online—offering certifications for professionals to sell insurance or act as trustees in the pensions industry.

For over 40 years, True Relationships and Reproductive Health has delivered essential training to healthcare professionals, doctors and nurses, in the state of Queensland, Australia. It also provides workplace development for other sectors including teachers, early childcare workers, youth and social workers, allied health professionals and support workers in the disability sector.

Since the emergence of COVID-19, many higher education institutions across the globe have been presented with significant challenges. In particular, institutions that had mainly relied on traditional, in-person teaching models have had to quickly pivot and adopt online learning strategies as their primary means of delivery. This not only means having to adjust to educating and engaging students in a digital environment, but also learning how to implement and use new technology to create an effective virtual classroom.