Archive for the 'e-Learning in South Africa' Category
Bridgewater Delivers PC Literacy Training to Call Centre Staff
Through our partners, HST, we have a new programme in PC literacy training that has just been launched! It’s designed to boost learner confidence when working with a PC and help the learner achieve great results by easily retaining the information.
It is a PC basics suite that consists of 6 chapters:
PC Orientation
Windows XP
Internet Explorer
Outlook Express
Excel
PowerPoint
The programme is user-friendly, […]
Training in Trying Times
So it seems that the world’s financial situation is getting worse, not better. I’m sitting writing this barely 1km North of Wall Street, the focal point of all American news, policy decision-making, presidential candidate speeches and grey hairs for the last two weeks.
I’ve already heard of numerous people losing their jobs here on Manhattan – […]
ICELW Conference 2008 Round-up
The first International Conference on e-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW) was held at the university of Columbia in New York City over the 12th and 13th of June this year. It attracted over a hundred delegates from all over the globe including Sweden, Norway, Singapore, Australia, England, and America. Bridgewater was there too, representin’.
There were two […]
Strategic e-Learning: Putting your customers last
I’d like to relate to you a phenomenon we’ve noticed in talking to companies about e-Learning. This post relates to our talks with specifically software companies though this experience is equally applicable to companies considering using e-Learning to train staff. Where I refer to customers in this post, these may be substituted for employees of the company and indeed some training staff […]
To Build Or Not To Build?
In this post I’m going to try to answer the following question:
I need to train someone on something, should I build an e-Learning course to do it?
We’ve had many requests from people with industry knowledge to convert this knowledge into a reusable e-Learning course. Often these experts are already conducting face-to-face seminars and are looking […]
How to Choose an e-Learning Supplier
There is increasing interest in South Africa in using e-Learning to lower the costs of training and improve effectiveness. The issue is in getting started and how best to do this? We’ve written this post to be of assistance to those companies wanting to start training via e-Learning to outline the various options as clearly […]
The Dire State of South African Education
I’ve just finished reading a rather worrying article in the Financial Mail (Dec 7, 2007) (I’ve been away for a few weeks so please forgive the delay in my reading of this!).
The article is titled “Why SA Fails its Children” and it outlines the differences between a worldwide McKinsey report on what makes for successful […]
Online learning – Can SA compete?
I’ve been in the US for 2 weeks now and while there have been a number of quirks of life here as compared with back home, not many have had the impact on me that the internet, or more importantly, the speed of internet connections, has had.
Like an animal born in captivity it is often […]