Professional Technical Education
Development of Customized
Online Learning
Are you launching a new product line or changing an important business process that will
require re-educating your staff? Do you have units in multiple locations? Does your staff
need on-demand customized documentation at their fingertips? Our custom-designed online
courses and tutorials may be your training solution. Explore our portfolio below to learn
how other satisfied customers have benefited from these services.
| | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Project: Introduction to Wikis
Customer Need: Develop a fast-paced, introductory tutorial on Wikis to highlight their purpose and functionality to the university community.
Solutions:
Development of Customized Online Learning.
Video & Digital Media Services.
Description: You can visit the Introduction to Wikis page to view any of the following three streaming videos. The project cost was approximately $5,000 to produce all 3 modules.
What's a Wiki? (2:37 min)
Why Wikis? (2:30 min)
Working with Wikis (2:00 min)
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PTE Contact: Kathy Konicek at kkonicek@wisc.edu or 608.265.6577
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| | WI Division of Children and Family Services |
Project: Effects of Abuse & Neglect
Customer Need: Develop an interactive learning tool to help social workers familiarize themselves with the stages of typical child development.
Solutions:
Development of Customized Online Learning.
Description: PTE worked in Fall 2007 with Wisconsin's Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to provide state social workers an online tool for reviewing the basics of child developmental stages. Following this online introduction are classroom interactions to further elaborate on its relevance to the topic of abuse and neglect.
To help with this learning, PTE created online activities that demonstrate children of different ages and their associated behaviors and tendencies, in a way that is engaging and responsive to the user. Within the activities, user choices and selections result in immediate feedback for review, thereby reinforcing proper understandings while correcting misconceptions.
Access the site at http://www.wcwts.wisc.edu/childdevelopment/
more information
PTE Contact: Greg Konop at gkonop@doit.wisc.edu or 608.265.6485
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| | WI Division of Quality Assurance |
Project: Home Health Online Training
Customer Need: Develop an online-learning solution to replace an introductory portion of face-to-face learning for home health agency staff and surveyors.
Solutions:
Development of Customized Online Learning.
Description: In the summer of 2007, PTE started development on an online training piece for the Division of Quality Assurance (DQA), which is part of Wisconsin's Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS). The motivation of DQA to have this training developed was to aid the broader delivery of training to surveyors of home health agencies, whose purpose it is to ensure the agencies' compliance with federal regulations; this wider delivery of material includes subsequent face-to-face meetings for discussion and elaboration.
With an abundance of material to convey to users, PTE's solution contains a variety of instructional strategies in an effort to keep the content interactive and manageable.
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PTE Contact: Greg Konop at gkonop@doit.wisc.edu or 608.265.6485
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| | Division of Information Technology |
Project: My WebSpace Online Training
Customer Need: Provide My WebSpace tutorials for faculty, staff, and student users with a variety of experience levels.
Solutions:
Development of Customized Online Learning.
Description: In the spring of 2007 the My Webspace service contracted with PTE to develop an online tutorial for its web-based file storage service. Since that time, there have been more than 24,000 visits to the training site. "We are very pleased with the final product. It has been well received by our (faculty, staff, and student) customers," says Cathy Riley, My Webspace program manager.
With My WebSpace offering free webhosting space for these faculty, staff, and students, DoIT needed explanations of the functionality and features of this service that were both informative and engaging. A simple webpage framework combined with Flash-animation narratives accomplished these goals.
Access the site at http://www.doit.wisc.edu/mywebspace/training/mywebspace/
more information
PTE Contact: Greg Konop at gkonop@doit.wisc.edu or 608.265.6485
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| | Division of Information Technology |
Project: Project Startup Status and Tools (PSST) Training
Customer Need: Provide training for a project-tracking tool for the Division of Information Technology (DoIT), helping users to understand its usefulness and the ways in which they can utilize it.
Solutions:
Development of Customized Online Learning.
Description: As a web-based application meant to allow browsing and editing of information on DoIT's various projects, the Project Startup Status and Tools (PSST) site is a centralized resource for managers, project managers, and project team members to document the goals and progress of their projects. Within the tool's many functionalities, the option exists for a person to stay updated via e-mail and RSS. PTE was asked to develop a web-based training for PSST. With such a variety of features, the training required a combination of textual explanations and Flash-based walkthroughs of the tool's usage.
Access the site at http://psst.doit.wisc.edu/training/
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PTE Contact: Greg Konop at gkonop@doit.wisc.edu or 608.265.6485
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| | Wisconsin Madison Union |
Project: Wisconsin Union Employee Training
Customer Need: Employee training for all positions at UW Madison Unions were event-driven, instructor-led training courses that were difficult to schedule as needed. A distance education learning model was created to provide online, convenient and just-in-time learning opportunities.
Solutions:
Development of Customized Online Learning.
Video & Digital Media Services.
Description: PTE staff worked closely with UW Madison Union trainers to enable them to eventually produce their own online learning courses independently.
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PTE Contact: Greg Konop at gkonop@doit.wisc.edu or 608 265-6485
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| | WI Dept. of Health and Family Services |
Project: WI Health Alert Network (WI HAN) Training
Customer Need: Provide information and training on how to effectively utilize WI HAN as a communication system for Wiconsin's Public Health departments, hospitals, clinics, laboratories, law enforcement and other health agencies.
Solutions:
Video & Digital Media Services.
Individualized Training.
Development of Customized Online Learning.
Customized Instructor-led Classes.
Description: Professional Technical Education (PTE) has implemented a variety of instructional strategies to carry out the training needs of the WI HAN. The blended training approach has been comprised of face-to-face instructor-led training with hands-on participation, streaming Web conference demonstrations, and a self-paced on-demand tutorial.
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PTE Contact: Kevin Thompson at kpthomps@doit.wisc.edu or 608 265-6105
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