From its inception, Hebraic Christian College has been an institution of higher education that has been intensely focused on designing and delivering a student-centered learning system deliverable instantly to a global market. HCC’s consortium of scholars and business leaders developed and implemented a revolutionary new educational philosophy that is actually founded on ancient principles for the inculcation of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.
Beginning with the premise that the burden of responsibility for the transfer of knowledge rests on teachers and administrators, not on students, HCC determined to take the educational process beyond the constraints of space and time that have historically restricted access to advanced knowledge. The HCC learner-focused program provides higher dimensions in education, taking the process beyond the limitations of traditional classroom space and beyond the restrictions of traditional classroom time.
A significant feature of this revolutionary educational process is the ability of the student to experience professors’ lectures as often as they need to do so through the medium of video. At the same time, supplementary materials and professors’ outlines are presented synchronously with lectures which can then be reviewed as often as the student requires. Additionally, person-to-person interactive learning is available to the student through real-time on-line study forums that feature both text and voice exchanges. Students are also able to interact in the same manner with fellow students through additional interactive forums.
In order to facilitate the delivery of the many features of its educational model, HCC commissioned CrossLogic Corp. of Asheville, NC, to create software to support the HCC Learning Management System (LMS) in a manner that would enable the delivery of this student-focused learning system by means of cutting-edge Internet2 technology on all platforms. Working interactively, HCC’s administrators and scholars and CrossLogic’s administrators and software engineers merged the LMS produced by HCC’s educational philosophy with virtually futuristic computer technology to create this extraordinary methodology for the development, deployment, and delivery of HCC’s educational content.
Key features of the application include the following:
- Support of Industry Standards – The application is built upon J2EE and Java Service Request standards for portals and content management. This allows for secure access of information, open access of information, and secure user management.
- Support of Learning Institution – The application includes components that define and manage education programs. Additional modules support student enrollment and registration.
- Support for E-commerce – The application supports standard e-commerce processing of transactions for application, registration, and course enrollment, along with purchase of textbooks and other course materials.
- Course Development Tools – The application provides instructors and administrators with the ability to define courses and to propagate course materials in the web workbook learning environment. Integration of video, text, html, images and PowerPoint slides is supported. The workbook editor is easy to learn and use.
- Student Learning Environment – The application provides a unique learning environment for students that takes advantage of many different forms of media, thereby providing an engaging and informative educational experience.
HCC initially called its program E4, underscoring the higher dimensions of education that take the process beyond space’s three dimensions and beyond the dimension of time as HCC proposed to take education outside the three-dimensional space of traditional classrooms and outside the strictures of semester-based time structures. E4 also described HCC’s “electronically enabled education everywhere” system, a process that truly fulfills the college’s global vision and mission by making possible the delivery of college education 24/7, anywhere in the world by means of the Internet.
In order to make its educational system available to an wide array of diverse entitles for the dissemination In order to make its educational system available to an wide array of diverse entitles for the dissemination of knowledge of every genre, Hebraic Christian College teamed further with CrossLogic Corporation to create Infinity Learning Solutions, Inc. (ILS). Doing business as DigitalChalk, Infinity Learning Solutions, Inc., employed HCC’s revolutionary Learning Management System and DigitalChalk-enhanced delivery systems to add a stunning array of software enhancements that have taken the original systems to ever more astonishing degrees of user friendliness and have made them commercially available to educational content development and deployment enterprises around the world.
Infinity Learning Solutions, Inc., which became Sciolytix, Inc. in 2021, was licensed exclusively to employ the HCC Learning Management System and its development, deployment, and delivery software. Sciolytix employs intellectual property rights and administrative skills derived from HCC’s LMS that further enhance a mutual vision for facilitating quality Internet-based education that is focused on student needs and on student satisfaction and success.