Critical Information Network (CiNet) delivers performance-focused online training solutions that help emergency response personnel, public safety agencies and security firms save lives, protect critical infrastructure, improve workplace efficiency and manage critical risk threats. The comprehensive CiNet public safety portfolio has been serving the first responder community for almost twenty five years, with trusted brands that include the Law Enforcement Training Network (LETN), Professional Security Training Network (PSTN), Fire & Emergency Training Network (FETN) and Emergency Medical Update (PULSE).

CiNet Industrial Training
Critical Information Networks training library is comprised of instructionally designed, blended-elearning training solutions, including video-based courses from internationally recognized and well-respected brands such as NUS, Williams Learning and Tel-A-Train. Comprehensive student workbooks enhance the training modules and are included with every course to maximize the total learning experience.

“Our Electrical Plant Training Series offers a practical solution with 43 Web-delivered electrical maintenance training courses, representing some of the most common preventive and corrective electrical maintenance practices performed on electrical equipment in an industrial environment. Topics covered range from AC and DC fundamental reviews to motor, generator and circuit breaker maintenance and many more”, stated President and CEO Steve Albright. “This is what we do best – purposeful education that goes beyond an enhancement for safety, it saves lives”.

CiNet offers flexible delivery options, featuring a customizable learning management system that keeps track of all trainee test scores, log times and site-information access and provides custom reporting options. Additionally, the award winning content can be integrated into the customer’s LMS. CiNet’s trusted AICC/SCORM compliant content and training platform ensures compatibility in any environment.

Elearning online has allowed people to take part in and benefit from quality learning experiences. Despite the seemingly ceaseless ‘crunch time’ of today’s society, the features of electronic learning have allowed people to overcome or work around past encumbrances that prevented them from pursuing education and making themselves better individuals. What’s more heartening about this innovation is that it continuously improves time and time again.

Elearning may advance in terms of trends in technology, standards in education and the like. It definitely has the potential to grow and progress further. However, I think that it recently garnered a more significant achievement with its transformation as a standard in learning. Online education has recently become a means for disabled people to receive an education which would have otherwise been extremely difficult if not impossible in a traditional classroom setting.

Disabled people find it extremely hard to fit into normal society and interact with regular people like you or me. Disabilities can be psychological or physical, but either way, they individuals who have to cope with them have trouble finding a suitable learning facility that can cater to their needs as students and provide them with the education that they truly desire. Now that elearning has reached great heights, the latest and best the industry has to offer is just a mouse click away on the internet.

Elearning online is an enhanced form of the traditional classroom learning experience and it offers several benefits. Its many benefits, majority of which we are familiar with such as ease and convenience, make it possible for disabled students to engage in it. A recent survey showed that online learning greatly helped in the improvement of teaching methodologies for disabled people and SPED classes. Results were positive and provided an optimistic view of what’s to come because it showed that these individuals were able to get a competitive edge in their field of choice.

I hope that more studies and developments will be made so that elearning can be honed to be able to specifically cater to specific types of disabilities effectively.

While I was researching upon this topic I came across a web-based solution called ‘UltraLearn‘ (www.ultralearn.com). At first I didn’t know what it was but once I went to the site and tried it’s trial…. I was amazed that anyone came up with such a great concept and actually implemented it.

At this site you can produce ‘MashUp’ (as they refer it) which is an interactive video made by mixing together videos, sounds, images, documents, forms, questionnaires and even presentations!

After you make a mashup, you can then broadcast it to anyone or everyone as you like. They ensure content privacy and piracy is never compromised.

The best feature of this solution is that you can evaluate you viewers along with your mashups. In evaluation you can track who watched what, when and for how long. Also you can keep check of how much of your videos are being viewed… Loved this feature the best (:

So, I recommend all you eLearning solution seekers, content providers, subject matter experts to give this site a try.

Will post reviews about other new emerging technologies…

Peace!

UltraMashup Studio