Blended Learning

These techniques will enable your people to gain new skills and knowledge through innovative, interactive e-learning technologies such as online resources, video, audio and the use of relevant case studies.

Blended with face-to-face training, where necessary, your people can often acquire the skills they need without the need to attend conventional training days. This means that highly effective learning and development programmes can be delivered without taking people away from their day-to-day working routine.

e-Learning & Distance Learning

 

There are increasing and varied pressures driving the rise in use of e-learning. There is no doubt that new technologies provide exciting opportunities for enhancement and innovation in learning.

There are many definitions and words related to e-learning. La Gente believes in keeping e-learning simple, concise and jargon-free.

e-Learning is the convergence of the Internet and learning, or Internet-enabled learning. Our philosophy is that e-learning enhances traditional training interventions rather than replacing them.

Distance learning is flexible learning that allows you to study when and where it’s convenient for you. With distance learning you learn in your own time, at your own pace and at a location to suit you.

La Gente provide professionally developed learning materials and if required by the client organisation can also provide support by expert consultants. The materials are developed specially to suit the needs of distance learners and client organisation.

Studying distance learning does not mean you are studying alone.  As well as having contact with the La Gente consultant, our company will also enable learners to be able to communicate with other delegates studying the same material.

To the majority of our clients, blended learning is a solution that gives them the competitive edge to allow them to keep ahead in the rapidly changing global economy.

Benefits for the learner

 
  • Opportunity to learn anytime, anywhere
  • Learner centric delivery
  • Reinforcement and retention
  • Small 'chunks' of learning

Benefits for the organisation

 
  • Consistent message delivered to a large audience
  • e-Learning saves 30-60% in costs over classroom
  • Constantly updated learning content ensures rapid skill enhancement on new products and technologies
  • Creates a culture of Knowledge Management in the organisation

Key features of La Gente eLearning platforms are:

  • Ability to support an unlimited number of courses, and an unlimited number of learners
  • Fully compliant with SCORM, the Shareable Content Object Reference Model.
  • Fully web-based, with learners, trainers/facilitators and administrators all accessing the system via dedicated web browser interfaces.
  • Can be styled to integrate visually with client’s intranet or other online/offline identity.
  • Supports all content types that can feature in a website, including textual information, images, audio and video content, Macromedia Flash demonstrations, and links to external content.
  • Meets Level 1 and 2 priorities of WAI Accessibility Guidelines (subject to course content design).
  • Full learner management and evaluation, including management of courses available to each learner, course progress (including the ability for the learner to suspend a learning module and return where they left off), and online tests and quizzes.
  • Support for facilitator intervention, including learner:facilitator and facilitator:learner messaging.
  • Progress tracking and reporting, including reports of learner visits/activity in the system, and test/quiz performance.
  • Integrated Content Management System, providing the ability for instructors to create courses within the system.