http://www.bridgewaterlearning.co.za/blog Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:22:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our successful outsourced e-Learning service has just received a welcome make-over. We've made a number of adjustments to our user interface and to the administration side which will allow us to rebrand the solution for those wishing to add e-Learning to their offerings. These changes mean that we can co-brand our solution ... http://www.bridgewaterlearning.co.za/blog/?p=42 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 ... http://www.bridgewaterlearning.co.za/blog/?p=40 The steady steamroller of progress pushes on! We've now released 3 further curricula from our partners Prime Learning. Here's the quick and dirty on each: PrimeSales - A methodical approach to buyer-focussed selling PrimeManager - Guidelines for troubleshooting, brainstorming, developing staff, and building teams PrimeTeam Building - Creating and motivating teams and promoting ... http://www.bridgewaterlearning.co.za/blog/?p=41 We’ve been doing some work recently at creating e-Learning material around company policies. Typically these documents are really dry, technically worded and full of a lot of directives, “Employees are required to inform the department of any changes in X”, “Managers are obliged to ensure such-and-such a thing happens” – ... http://www.bridgewaterlearning.co.za/blog/?p=38 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 ... http://www.bridgewaterlearning.co.za/blog/?p=33 I'm pleased to report that we've just released 14 more courses for the benefit of companies using our outsourced e-Learning service. 6 of these come from Prime Learning's PrimeFinance curriculum. The curriculum was designed to "demystify finance and to remove financial phobias" and is aimed primarily at non-financial managers. The courses ... http://www.bridgewaterlearning.co.za/blog/?p=30   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 ... http://www.bridgewaterlearning.co.za/blog/?p=31 While we may have maintained a bit of radio silence of late, I can assure that behind the scenes the gears are turning furiously! There are two exciting announcements on the service development front that I hope will add significant value to our clients (apart from the continual and accelerating ... http://www.bridgewaterlearning.co.za/blog/?p=28 We partnered with Ireland-based Prime Learning a few months ago and recently released the first batch of courses from them. Their content is conveniently arranged into curricula so not only are there singular courses but many have been combined to form more rounded training in a particular subject or discipline. We’ve spent ... http://www.bridgewaterlearning.co.za/blog/?p=27 Excel 2007 has now been added to the range of courses. Including the new ribbon feature common across the Office 2007 products the new interface can be a bit confusing to those who've used Excel 2003 or earlier releases. Have no fear! This course covers the ribbon in depth and ... http://www.bridgewaterlearning.co.za/blog/?p=25