GeoLearning
to Power E-Learning for US Fed Government
Selected to Power E-Learning Site for 1.8 Million
U.S. Federal Government Employees
GeoLearning,
Inc. announced today that its ASP-delivered GeoMaestro™
learning management system and e-learning delivery
platform has been selected to power the first module
of the Gov Online Learning Center, the U.S. federal
government’s employee training site.
The
training site will provide easy one-stop access to
just-in-time training for the effective development
and retention of a high-quality and diverse federal
workforce. The Gov Online Learning Center is an effort
by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and
the U.S. Office of Management & Budget (OMB) to simplify
and unify e-training services across federal government
and is one of 24 e-government initiatives that support
the President’s Management Agenda.
The site will be available at www.golearn.gov when
it debuts later this month. OPM was designated by
OBM as the managing partner for the Gov Online Learning
Center initiative. OPM has worked in partnership with
federal agencies to provide one-stop access for the
1.8-million people employed by the federal government.
The first module of the Gov Online effort will offer
more than 30 free online training courses in areas
such as computer security, ethics, supervisory development,
desktop computer skills and project management.
Future
modules will incorporate additional training courses,
products and services to meet identified needs. The
GeoLearning LMS will serve as the storefront for the
Gov Online Learning Center. The online system will
track and report training information such as the
courses taken and completed by employees, and will
compile user feedback. With this data agencies will
be able to more effectively collect and manage training
data.
The
GeoLearning system will be available worldwide 24
hours a day, seven days a week—including end-user
technical support—providing federal employees with
unparalleled access to learning and development resources.
“We are extremely proud and excited to be chosen as
the e-learning platform for a federal initiative of
this magnitude and importance,” said Frank Russell,
president and CEO of GeoLearning. “In this first phase,
we will be working with OPM to give every federal
employee with a .gov or .mil e-mail address access
to the resources in the Gov Online Learning Center
via the GeoMaestro™ system.”
The
GeoLearning solution can also integrate online content
development and delivery with traditional classroom
training into a single system capable of supporting
a truly blended learning environment, thereby enhancing
agency human capital initiatives and advancing continuous
learning as a strategic business investment.
“The purpose of the site is to reduce the number of
similar courses agencies offer and to standardize
the coursework,” said Michael Fitzgerald, OPM’s director
for the e-training initiative project. “A lot of agencies
struggle to meet legislative and agency-mandated training
requirements. This site will become the storefront
for those courses, enabling us to take advantage of
economies of scale and reduce redundant training efforts
across the federal government.”
“The
Gov Online Learning Center is the e-learning industry’s
flagship project, calling for the very best in technology,
implementation processes and service levels,” said
GeoLearning’s Russell.
July
8th, 2002
 
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