Member Login

E-mail:    Password:  




 TitleDate AddedCompany
whitepaper Accelerate UPK Results Using Prebuilt Content2006-10-01 Oracle
  Oracle's User Productivity Kit (UPK) is an excellent tool for on demand training as well as implementation and upgrade project documentation development. While the use of UPK greatly increases the efficiency of actual content recording and editing, many other tasks need to be performed to create an effective content library that can be used in all aspects of a training program and an implementation or upgrade project. With the addition of prebuilt content for UPK, the effectiveness and quality of that development is greatly enhanced. This paper addresses reduced time, reduced cost, and better results key value statements in more detail as well as the prebuilt content offerings currently available from Oracle.

Tags: Workflow Management, Education		   
whitepaper Oracle Tutor and UPK: Achieving a Superior Ownership Experience2006-09-01 Oracle
  A key condition of achieving a superior ownership experience is to ensure that employees know how to use business applications effectively to perform their jobs. Lack of accurate and consistent process, procedure, and training documentation can detract from an organization's ability to successfully implement, use, and maintain its business applications. Tutor and UPK are complementary products that can be used right now. Tutor and UPK provide the content and tools that enable companies to modify prewritten procedures and self-paced learning materials to reflect an organization's specific business practices and application environment as well as easily create and deploy custom content.

Tags: Enterprise Planning, Education		   
whitepaper Delivering on the Promise of eLearning2008-05-05 Adobe Systems
  This white paper defines the framework to launch e-learning as a set of teaching, training, and learning practices not bound by a specific technology platform or learning management system. The use of eLearning is reemerging as a solution for delivering online, hybrid, and synchronous learning regardless of physical location, time of day, or digital reception or distribution device type.

This white paper considers some of the reasons that institutions and enterprises are turning to eLearning to engage learners with ideas and information. It takes a look at a number of the "lessons eLearned" based on more than 20 years of empirical evidence exploring the use of learning technologies and cognitive achievement. Finally, it offers practical suggestions for creating digital learning experiences that engage learners by building interest and motivation and providing opportunities for active participation.

PLEASE NOTE: By downloading this paper, you agree to receive communications via email, mail or phone relating to Adobe and its affiliates' products and services including product releases, product upgrades, seminars, events, training, and special offers. Adobe, its affiliates, and agents may use the data you provide in accordance with the Adobe Privacy Policy.

Tags: Education, Staff Training, IT Professionals		   
whitepaper Establishing a Remote Lab for Teaching Enterprise Application Development2006-07-26 Texas State University
  Many students of Computer Information Systems (CIS) at the McCoy College of Business Administration of the Texas State University - San Marcos live and work in the cities of Austin or San Antonio, which are both more than twenty miles away from campus. It is necessary for these students to use home computers to work on assignments and projects remotely. To study the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), students are required to use IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) as the development tool. This paper presents a method for the establishment of a remote lab in which students can learn how to develop and deploy J2EE applications that connect to database servers.

Tags: Internet and Web, Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper Training Secrets From the 'Best Bank'2008-09-01 SumTotal Systems
  Online learning helped St.George Bank achieve 20-fold increase in staff training and boost regulatory compliance while cutting costs by 25%, delivering a bottom-line saving in excess of $2.3M USD per annum together with vastly expanded business capabilities. St.George's implementation of the SumTotal Learning Management System (LMS) now hosts 550 different courses ranging from technical tutorials in the bank's group wise email environment to Computer Based Training (CBT), product education and sales techniques. SumTotal Enterprise Suite allowed St.George to achieve a dramatic improvement in training productivity with around half the number of human resources staff.

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Workflow Management		   
whitepaper Large District Gains Huge Time and Cost Savings With Online Meetings and Training for 12,000 Teachers and 650 Administrators0000-00-00 Adobe Systems
  The School District of Palm Beach County is the tenth largest school district in the nation. It spreads across an area larger than some states. When principals and other school-based personnel from its 167 schools attend on-site meetings with others in the district, many need to drive two or three hours round-trip. Soon they'll be able to meet more often without leaving their schools. They'll use their computers and a Macromedia Breeze online meeting room to connect virtually with their colleagues. The district has installed its own Macromedia Breeze server, which includes the Presenter and Training modules for creating e-learning presentations and courses, and Breeze Meeting for live online meetings and trainings.

Tags: Internet and Web, IT Professionals		   
whitepaper SAP Tutor Helps Eskom Train and Support 7,500 Geographically Dispersed Users0000-00-00 SAP
  Eskom, South Africa's national electric utility, is one of the top 11 utilities in the world in terms of generation capacity and employ nearly 32,000 people and generate revenues of more than ?3.9 billion. Eskom's vision is to become a major player in the international energy market and to provide energy leadership in Africa. In the late 1990s, in an initiative to modernize its aging financial and commercial IT systems, Eskom chose SAP software. Eskom trained 7,500 geographically dispersed users on SAP software before the system went live. Today, keeping such a large number of users up-to-date on upgrades and new functionality (as well as training new users) remains a major challenge. This is where SAP Tutor comes in.

Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Professionals		   
whitepaper Creating an Online Helpdesk: Supporting Teaching and Learning2006-05-22
  As online education is growing into mainstream in higher education, one of the challenges is how to enhance students' online learning experience. Both current research and theories such as the theory of transactional distance, seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education, and the adult learning theories indicate that interaction is very important in teaching and learning. In order to provide students good online learning experience and reduce faculty's teaching load, the Department of Leadership Studies at Fort Hays State University created an Online Helpdesk to increase interaction among students as well as between instructors and students.

Tags: User Satisfaction, Workflow Management		   
whitepaper Case Study: How HP Rolled Out Its Virtual Lab for Global Customer Training0000-00-00 American Society for Training & Development
  Hewlett-Packard wanted to take advantage of an opportunity to meet the growing needs of many customers for virtual technology training. It had to quickly launch a program that would build effective, remotely delivered courses with experiential learning built in while changing as little as possible in existing ILT courseware. HP took a traditional rapid deployment process and applied it to an e-learning implementation. It incorporated the use of remote training delivery tools with virtual classrooms and virtual laboratories to create an environment where people could learn, while leveraging its expertise in e-learning and avoiding the need to "Reinvent the wheel".

Tags: Education, IT Professionals		   
whitepaper How Shared Technologies Inc. and Global Knowledge Teamed to Motivate, Train, and Keep the Right Employees0000-00-00 Global Knowledge
  Like many other companies, Shared Technologies, a leading provider of installation and maintenance services for telecom customer premise equipment, had been through years of turmoil, layoffs, and cultural changes. Shared Technologies' senior leadership recognized that the business should focus on improving several areas, including workforce development and training and, more importantly, employee retention and loyalty, because Shared Technologies is in the service business. Shared Technologies sought advice from their associates at Nortel. Recognizing the importance of training and certification, Nortel immediately turned to Global Knowledge.

Tags: IT Professionals