{"id":10364,"date":"2020-02-19T12:07:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T10:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livresq.com\/?p=10364"},"modified":"2020-02-27T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T15:05:20","slug":"long-story-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livresq.com\/en\/news\/long-story-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Story Short"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About the company<\/b><\/p>

I am Cosmin, I am the CEO of ASCENDIA, the company responsible for developing LIVRESQ and, from time to time I'll write in this blog to let you all know our plans for the tool, our successes or failures and basically to give you a pulse of what we're doing. I hope you'll enjoy reading and enjoy our tools.<\/p>

As a short background, ASCENDIA was funded in 2007 and since we've been developing educational software exclusively - platforms & content. We are based in Bucharest, Romania and since 2016 we are listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange under the ASC symbol.<\/p>

The company has a portal with elearning modules for kids:\u00a0www.dacobots.com<\/a>, a speech therapy platform (only for Romanian language)\u00a0www.timlogo.ro<\/a>, a Learning Management System for companies\u00a0www.coffeelms.com<\/a>\u00a0and this very tool for online content creation\u00a0www.livresq.com<\/a>.<\/p>

If you are an investor or can be a strategic partner (eLearning company - LMS, content etc), do drop us a line at office@ascendia.ro! We are still in the need for fuel to grow so we search for strategic partners and investors.<\/p>

History - how come we made this eLearning authoring tool?<\/b><\/p>

LIVRESQ started from the idea that\u00a0publishers<\/b>\u00a0should be able to make digital interactive textbooks, very easy, without the need to use programmers to remake the content from printed books into digital\u00a0responsive HTML5\u00a0<\/b>format, than to pay services to augment it with multimedia. We wanted to streamline this process. So we made it easy to import Fixed EPUB files into LIVRESQ, published from Adobe InDesign (.indd) files, the publishers have when developing the books for print. And once imported, they are automatically made responsive and easily to\u00a0more<\/b>\u00a0by a what you see is what you get simple interface<\/b>. We constructed it based on our company's experience developing printed and digital textbooks for the national ministry of education.<\/p>

After that we realized that, in fact the\u00a0teachers <\/b>are those who will use those textbooks and in general they make all sorts of presentations for their kids (those who embrace technology's benefits). Are you among them? \ud83d\ude0a If so, it worth reading forward. So, we said, what if we make this tool able to provide the teachers what they are lacking - a solution in which they can put text, videos, pictures, quizzes etc., without the need to know programming and with the possibility to make that\u00a0content available for their kids both online and offline, in a responsive interface that can work on PC, tablets and phones - wherever the kids are.\u00a0<\/b>And what if we\u00a0give them this tool for free<\/b>?<\/p>

And finally, last, but not least, as our company ASCENDIA develops interactive eLearning modules for companies, we said: what if we empower LIVRESQ with attributes specific to the\u00a0corporate and academic learning systems<\/b>\u00a0The new SCORM format: make the publish content available also in SCORM format, put systems for tracking and correct reporting of the time, score, experience of the user and so on, in-bricked in the published materials. And so we did! So the tool became also\u00a0useful for us and for any company or team out there that produces adult eLearning modules<\/b>.<\/p>

About the LIVRESQ Suite<\/b><\/p>

We saw this solution as a mix of 3 systems: the\u00a0LIVRESQ Author, the Library and the Content Shop.<\/b><\/p>

The most important is the Author - the tool that give the users the possibility to create and download the eLearning presentation. You can experiment it here, for free if you are a teacher or with a 60 days trial otherwise.<\/p>

Aside this, we thought that the content authors (publishers, teachers, freelancers etc) would like to publish somewhere what they produced, this being the function of the Library. And we keep the Library access free for all. Here, for now you can only publish for all to see after we accept the published material, but, in the future, we plan to give people the possibility to publish private (to a list of people who can see it). Also for the future we plan to give the authors the option to publish a paid version of their content, so only the users paying in the platform to have access to that material will be able to see the content, thus giving the publishers a stream of income.<\/p>

Ant the third part of the solution it will be a Content Shop. This will host both free as well as licensed (commercial) content, the authors will be able to use in their materials. Can be pictures, audios, videos, interactive 3DS and more.<\/p>

The plan is these developments to be carried out in 2020.<\/p>

For partially developing the suite we used European Funding, through a national line, that enabled us to plan and develop the LIVRESQ Author and a part of the Library over a 2 year period of time. The EU funding finished in August 2019 and since we operate on our company's funding. For the future developments we use commercial funding and we search for a partner\/investor to push the development and the solution's adoption worldwide.<\/p>

So, there are three big categories of users of the LIVRESQ eLearning Suite:<\/p>