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To make a blended eMentoring & eLearning initiative a reality, a healthcare organization would need a web-based, total communication solution which would allow individuals to collaborate anywhere and anytime for improved productivity. Specific collaboration tools would include: Email, Instant Messaging, Video Conferencing, Desktop Sharing, Co-browsing, File Sharing, Internet Phone with Voicemail, Group Collaboration, Discussion Groups, Web Collaboration, and Virtual Classrooms.

In particular, one of the challenges of any new mentoring relationship is the availability of time. Traditional mentoring requires that both parties be available at the same time to meet in person. While time is always a factor in any mentoring partnership, it is not necessary for both participants to be available at the same time in a virtual mentoring relationship. Advantages include open correspondence, access to more geographically isolated regions, and efficiency of communication.

Many healthcare professionals feel that there isn’t enough time to do patient care, let alone mentorship. That’s the harsh reality of the healthcare environment – everyone recognizes mentoring is crucial yet there never seems to be enough time. Although face-to-face mentorship programs have a variety of positive outcomes, many healthcare professionals believe they simply do not have time to make a commitment to such programs. However, we feel it is reasonable that they could spend 30-45 minutes per week mentoring in a virtual relationship.

Virtual mentoring and online learning is also place independent, meaning the mentor and the mentee do not need to live in close proximity to each other. This allows mentoring relationships to be formed between parties living in different cities, states, or even countries. An organization can realize a huge cost savings because instead of learning and mentoring occurring in house at “X” dollars an hour, these mentoring partners are participating in different aspects of mentoring using e-learning software on their own time, not on the hospital’s.  Read more...

As technology and internet are being more widely used and changes the way people learn and train, WBT, CBT or eLearning is now not the hot spot on that map. But have you ever hesitated to establish eLearning for your organization due to the conspicuous financial barrier or even lack of technical support?

Hiring a development team or learning a programming language would be a thing of past with Rapid E-Learning Suite. User s with basic experience with desktop software applications can quickly develop content without the need of complicated technology background. Interface is intuitive and features are easy to understand and use.

To meet the different needs of content creation, Wondershare provide three different versions of Rapid E-learning Suite – Rapid E-Learning Suite Standard, Rapid E-Learning Suite Professional and Rapid E-Learning Suite Deluxe.

Rich Media

Rapid E-Learning Suite does not create text-based simple content. Instead, it seamlessly combines images, screenshots, narrations, music , sound effects, Flash animations, video and streaming video with text.

Dynamic Learning Content Authoring

As a comprehensive content authoring tool package, Rapid E-Learning Suite now gives users an array of powerful tools to add multimedia quizzes, interactive screencasts and video clips to the learning content, thus making content-rich lessons and courses.

Product to Product Integration

This ultimate E-Learning content authoring suite is a true single-sourcing tool set that offers true and tight product to product integration. PPT2Flash Professional, QuizCreator, DemoCreator and WebVideo Author can be launched from within a single interface. In addition, it is easy to integrate content created by QuizCreator, DemoCreator and WebVideo Author into PPT2Flash Professional, thereby making the content building process, quiz authoring, simulation creation and video design seamless for your learning and training needs.  Read more...

Today everyone is aware of the recession and it has become the topic of discussion everywhere. The most hit by the global recession are the students and young professionals who are trying to make it big, but losing hope in the current situation. But-everything is not over yet. You don’t have to be disheartened. It may not be possible for everyone now to make huge investment in their academics, keeping in mind the market trends now, then what do the students do? Well!! In such a situation elearning is a solution and is fast becoming popular among the students and job seekers. Studying in these web based training courses ( as they are popularly known) is easy and hasslefree. The most important factor in e-learning is that your investment is very less. Since everything is available online you do not need to spend any amount on the purchase of stationery and other materials that is usually done in other cases. Your considerable amount of money is spent in these course. Submission of assignments and examinations are also often held online, which adds to the convenience of the learner.

During such times of recession, traveling to foreign lands or even different states maybe difficult. Next comes the residential charges, course fees, purchasing of books etc, what does a student do? With elearning, you don’t need to spend a dollar on such things. You need a computer with an internet connection. Once you login to your website, you enter a whole new world of studies and books. Everything is available online. Training material is prepared by the experts who know how to explain even small details to a student who is studying at a distant place. The courses and study materials, websites and hyper links provided in the online computer training videos, encourages the students to brush up their skills and know more in the process. The online training videos are the best ways to explain some intricate details which may appear a bit confusing to the student.  Read more...

“We chose SumTotal after an intensive analysis and trial of the major eLearning vendors in the market as it stood out in regards to flexibility, ease-of-use and scalability. These features are vital to B&Q as we are rolling out our eLearning solution to 28,000 users in more than 300 stores.”

“The combination of a user-centric interface and sheer ‘out-of-the-box fit’ allowed B&Q to provide a sound eLearning platform against an aggressive rollout schedule.”

-Steve Hemmant, Project Leader

When B&Q, the U.K.’s number one do-it-yourself and garden center retailer needed a fast, efficient way to train its busy and burgeoning workforce, it turned to a proven learning solution: SumTotal. In under a year, the company experienced five-figure savings (expected to climb to six figures in 2002) compared to its old training methods. What’s more, in the highly competitive DIY retail environment, B&Q staff are equipped to offer customers advice and help above and beyond most other retailers.

Today, employees in all the company’s U.K. stores use the eLearning system. According to Steve Hammant, a Project Leader for B&Q, staff feedback has been extremely positive, calling the SumTotal system clear, easy to use, and logical to work through. “Sometimes,” he says, “we have a problem getting people off the PC when they’re training, as they like the experience so much!”

“SumTotal has reduced our four-hour Health and Safety training session for new staff to about one and a half hours. And as staff gain familiarity with the system, their confidence is increasing when dealing with customers. You can’t put a price on confident staff, but it’s possibly the best ROI we could have hoped for.”

– Adrian Jones, E-Training Manager, B&Q

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Have you heard the new buzz word – eLearning? It has come to the forefront in the last couple of years. But, what does it really mean?

ELearning is a method of instruction where the teacher and student are located in different locations or where there is a time gap between the two, but by using internet technology, the instructor is able to teach a specific topic or skill. The advantage here is that this can take place from any location in the world and at anytime that they are able to get together online.

So now that we know what eLearning is all about, how can you take advantage of eLearning and what is it you should look for? Many people look at the internet as a great source of information, but only look at what information that they can get for free or can buy through videos or e-books.

There are many videos and e-books available for sale on the internet, but once you have spent your money, do you know what to do with the information? Do you any anyone to contact if you have any questions? Can you bounce ideas off of another person studying the same information? How do you find someone that is studying the information?

While these may seem like simple things to think about, it really has a large impact on your ability to learn new skills, especially if you are working to make a career change utilizing the internet. Learning is a very dynamic process and everyone learns a little bit differently. But even with this, interaction with other is almost always the best way to learn. Adult learners tend to be more visual and interactive than even when they were in school. They have experiences now that allow them to look at everything a little differently. They will tend to question ideas more.  Read more...