Archive for November, 2003
19 November 2003 at 8:00 am · Click2learn Press Releases · Click2learn
Highlighting continued momentum for ToolBook 2004, the industry’s most powerful authoring solution for interactive simulations and content, Click2learn today announced that TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU), the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada, has realized significant business performance results by using ToolBook to create critical training content and information for thousands of employees across its organization. TELUS, has made ToolBook the standard content authoring tool across its enterprise, as well as requiring content vendors to use ToolBook when creating custom content for the company. The company uses ToolBook to create and deliver a wide variety of learning content, from corporate ethics training, to essential information supporting new product launches to training on new system enhancements.
12 November 2003 at 8:00 am · Click2learn Press Releases · Click2learn
Click2learn, leader in enterprise productivity solutions, announced today that the Merlin Training Facility, part of the United Kingdom’s 824 Naval Air Squadron based at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Cornwall, England, has chosen the Aspen Enterprise Productivity Suite™ to manage and deploy its 2500-lesson curriculum designed to support operation and maintenance of the Royal Navy’s new Merlin helicopters. Aspen will be employed in a variety of ways ranging from converting existing training to a Web-based format, to developing new content, to broad-scale learning management and training deployment. The Merlin Training Facility trains pilots, observers, air crewman and engineers to operate and maintain the Royal Navy’s new multi-role helicopter. The curriculum covers a range of career and professional training for personnel with varying degrees of aviation experience ranging from novices to experienced aircrew men and engineers converting from other Front Line helicopter types. The training curriculum is based on a central tenet of maintenance of flight safety and airworthiness. Aspen will allow the Merlin Training Facility to manage the curriculum in a closely configured environment in which real-world changes are flowed into the training system as soon as they occur.
10 November 2003 at 8:00 am · Click2learn Press Releases · Click2learn
Click2learn, leader in enterprise productivity solutions, today announced that Kern County, California’s third largest county in area and home to more than 661,000 residents, has chosen to implement the Aspen Enterprise Productivity Suite™ in its Department of Human Services to provide mandated training and certification for its employees and its community and agency partners. The Kern County Department of Human Services provides customer-centered services including financial and medical aid, food and employment assistance and child welfare services including foster placement, adoption and family reunification. Kern County chose Aspen based on the successful results the California C-IV Consortium (San Bernardino, Riverside, Stanislaus and Merced Counties) achieved with Aspen. The Consortium used Aspen to create, deliver and maintain an automated, integrated information system to help its 6000 employees meet the human services needs of over 350,000 families in the four-county area.
4 November 2003 at 8:00 am · Click2learn Press Releases · Click2learn
Click2learn, leader in enterprise productivity solutions, today announced that long-time customer, Century 21, a subsidiary of Cendant Corporation and the franchiser of the world’s largest residential real estate sales organization, has won the TechLearn Pioneer Award at this year’s TechLearn conference in Orlando, FL. Century 21 was recognized for its successful, groundbreaking blended learning initiative, managed and tracked by Click2learn’s Aspen, which has resulted in an average 33% per-agent revenue and productivity increase among more than 6,600 franchises worldwide in a single year. Century 21 used the full Aspen suite to build a global infrastructure which gives franchised offices access to a single system for training, assessing skills and capabilities and tracking individual agent productivity and performance year over year. “We wanted to provide access to a complete training platform,” said George Selix, chief learning officer at Century 21, who was presented the award on Tuesday by Elliott Masie, TechLearn host and founder of the Masie Center. “Century 21 has always had a great reputation in the industry for training. We wanted to build on that foundation by using technology to leverage good instructors. We had to find a way to merge high quality performance-based, synchronous instruction with multiple asynchronous delivery tools to build a completely blended learning solution.”
3 November 2003 at 8:00 am · Click2learn Press Releases · Click2learn
Marking a major milestone in the evolution of its ToolBook product offering, Click2learn today launched ToolBook Instructor 2004, the most robust, easy-to-use version yet of its award-winning authoring solution for simulations and interactive learning content. Reinforcing Click2learn’s continuing commitment to this popular product, this latest version of ToolBook includes powerful new features developed to meet evolving learning industry demands and to respond to feedback from many of Click2learn’s hundreds of thousands of ToolBook users worldwide. ToolBook helps organizations create the compelling content and simulations that are a critical success factor in any organizational learning initiative. Using its powerful features, companies can create professional, standards-based simulations, tutorials, courseware and other interactive learning content without in-depth programming skills. Based on AICC and SCORM standards, ToolBook also makes it easy to launch and track ToolBook content through a standards-compliant learning management system (LMS).
3 November 2003 at 8:00 am · Click2learn Press Releases · Click2learn
Kicking off its annual participation and Gold sponsorship of the Masie Center’s exclusive Techlearn conference in Orlando from November 3 - 5, Click2learn, leader in enterprise productivity solutions has put together a packed agenda featuring the largest meeting to-date of its Customer Advisory Council, a key product launch and a full schedule of presentations, sessions and customer showcases.
