Alternative
Delivery
Investigate
different education delivery methods to accommodate your
employees' learning styles or work schedules.
Education Extension,
of Oklahoma State University, provides outreach services to
students, teachers, administrators, and service organizations on
a local, state, and national basis.
URL: http://www.okstate.edu/education/extension/
Access a
free Internet-based Classroom Assistant with
conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling
and link/resource sharing. Customized at individual or class
levels, anyone can set up a class in minutes and allow others to
join.
URL: http://www.nicenet.org
eGroups
is a free email group service that allows you to create and join
email groups. You
can archive messages and schedule meetings or groups chats:
URL: http://egroups.com
Access
training and activities in reading, writing, math, science,
history, vocational education, and more through the Blue
Web'n - a gateway to online training, lesson plans and
Hot Links.
URL:
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
The Employee
Training Institute
has over five years experience in multimedia training
development. ETI has created Web-based Training and
CD-ROMs for small and large companies, and for educational
institutions. Its expertise is in adapting instruction to low
level literacy and basic skills.
URL:
http://www.workplace-eti.com/cbt/
Search the Workforce
Development in New York State website for thousands of
educational programs, classroom courses, distance learning
opportunities, web-and computer-based training and
apprenticeship programs to find training opportunities and
providers that best suit your needs.
URL: http://www.wdsny.org/provider/
Computer Curriculum
Corporation's Destinations Internet is a
comprehensive, online learning program that addresses national,
state and local standards in reading, writing, math and
life/learning skills. The online courses are designed to
stimulate interest in literacy and learning among adult learners
seeking to attain high school diplomas, pass GED exams, or
prepare for the workforce.
URL: http://www.investlearning.com
LiteracyLink
offers professional development resources and training to
literacy educators of adult students. LitTeacher is a
technology-based continuing education resource center, offering
peer evaluation tools, practice guides and staff development
videoconferences.
URL: http://litlink5.pbs.org/litteacher.html
Crossroads Cafe is an
English language instruction program for speakers of other
languages created by an award-winning television producer,
INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications, a specialized language
producer, leading ESL educators and government.
URL: http://www.floridahumanresources.org/crossrds/index.html
A quick self-quiz
to help your employees assess if distance learning
is right for them.
URL:
http://www.pbs.org/als/college/index.html
Use the Small
Business Classroom for Small Business Administration
online training resources.
URL:
http://classroom.sba.gov/courses.html
The
Learning for Life Program develops and produces
live, interactive basic education / adult literacy courses
disseminated nationwide via satellite and cable. The
Program is uniquely designed to serve adult learners, and due to
the medium of instruction, is offered in all 50 states
URL:
http://stepstar.esd101.net/adulted/default.htm
The Learning Resources
Network provides information and consultation to programs
offering lifelong learning activities such as courses, classes,
seminars, conferences, meetings, and training.
URL: http://www.lern.org/
The Adult Literacy Media
Alliance helps adults gain basic reading, writing, and math
skills through entertaining television-based teaching materials
that support learning at home, at work, in the community.
URL: http://www.tv411.org/
The
Community Technology Centers program assists with the
creation or expansion of community technology centers that will
provide disadvantaged residents of economically distressed urban
and rural communities with access to information technology and
related training.
URL: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/AdultEd/CTC/index.html
This
article discusses why it is important to connect e-learning
initiatives with defined business needs. E-learning can be a
flexible and cost-effective alternative to classroom training,
but it can also be a colossal waste of time and money if not
implemented correctly.
URL:
http://www.workforce.com/section/11/feature/23/41/49/index.html
This article discusses
how to set up a training function inside a small company
that has never had one before. Included are steps to establish a
network; align it with the business strategy; create early wins;
invest in it; and assess the impact.
URL: http://www.workforce.com/archive/article/23/37/96.php
Deciding how much to allocate
per person for training is a difficult but important issue.
This article suggests that a good approach is to assess areas
where changing performance will yield the most value and then
implement strategies to achieve that goal.
URL: http://www.workforce.com/archive/article/23/22/44.php
One company shares its training
success story using e-learning. In addition to saving $1
million on training during the first year e-learning was
implemented, the company says that the real value came from
improved customer service.
URL: http://www.workforce.com/archive/feature/23/27/95/232798.php
"Disability Employment
101: Learn to Tap Your 'HIRE' Potential," is a new guide
with programs and resources to assist business leaders with hiring
people with disabilities. The guide was released jointly by the
U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
URL: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/products/employmentguide/index.html
Tapping
the Talents of People with Disabilities is a resource guide
developed to assist employers in hiring people with disabilities
and integrating them into their workplace. Practical advice on
everything from pre-employment considerations through recruitment
and selection, appropriate modifications to accommodations, and
workforce education is included.
URL:
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/boardwiseii/LayoutRecentPublications.asp
In the past, companies
often looked to e-learning as a cheap solution, without
considering its effectiveness. This article discusses the pros and
cons of e-learning as a training delivery method and how companies
now turn to e-learning as a strategic solution to training.
URL:
http://www.workforce.com/section/11/feature/23/62/89/index.html
A report from the Task Force on
Workforce Development, Learning Partnerships: Strengthening
American Jobs in the Global Economy, proposes "bottom-up
partnerships" of government, educators, labor leaders, and
employers to analyze job opportunities and workforce needs, and to
develop effective training. The study offers recommendations on
improving workforce preparation and retraining, including
adjusting provisions in the Workforce Investment Act.
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/ovaereview/orev052804.html#aepaf
ToolsIndex.com is a free
service for Internet visitors to help them find tools-related
resources quickly and easily. The section on Skills Tools provides
links to skill-building tools for employers and their learning
partners.
URL:
http://www.toolsindex.com/skilltool/
Informative guide and articles
about the preparing for the GED exam and obtaining a high
school diploma are available from this site. Learn how to earn a
real high school diploma from home.
URL:
http://diplomaguide.com
Senior Service America provides
a guide for organizations that assist immigrant seniors
entering or re-entering the workforce. Practical advice for
working with seniors from culturally diverse backgrounds and on
facilitating interactions between immigrant seniors and other
staff are included.
URL:
http://www.seniorserviceamerica.org/
STAR is a comprehensive
toolkit and training package to help Adult Basic Education (ABE)
instructors use evidence-based reading instruction in the
classroom.
URL:
http://www.startoolkit.org/
Basic Computer Skills Curriculum
- a downloadable, comprehensive curriculum with Word, Excel
and PowerPoint activities for beginning, intermediate and advanced
ESL learners. Activities start from very basic skills such as
turning on the computer to higher level word processing
activities.
http://www.nzliteracyportal.org.nz/imsdirector.php?resid=2677&ruid=2182
This marketing/outreach guide for
GED programs provides advice on how to target groups
and develop outreach strategies, create a communications
strategy, establish relationships with the media, use
promotional items, and gain publicity. Success stories are
included.
URL:
http://www.valrc.org/publications/outreach.html
TV411 provides free, interactive
lessons for improving adult literacy skills. Video,
print and online resources are used to teach reading,
writing, vocabulary and math.
URL:
http://www.tv411.org
Development tools by
Learning Resources, Inc. provide employers and workforce
developers with 'mini-simulations' that can be
integrated into academic and career courses or
work-experience to help people better understand the
soft skills employers seek.
URL:
http://www.learning-resources.com/
Counting the Hidden Assets:
First Steps in Assessing the Impact of Community College
Noncredit Education Programs on the Workforce and Local
Economies is a report that makes the case for the
training hour as the basic unit of measurement and
proposes a taxonomy to classify and describe the range
of noncredit activities delivered by community colleges.
URL:
http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=744
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights
offers transitional job services to a wide range of
populations within its
portfolio of housing, health care, economic security,
and legal protections services.
URL:
http://www.heartlandalliance.org/
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Last updated: June 4, 2010. |