Allfirst Financial Launches Internet Banking Training on click2learn.com's e-Learning Network.Business Editors/Technology Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2000 click2learn.com's award-winning development software, Toolbook II Instructor(TM), used to create custom courseware Educational software. See CBT and OpenCourseWare. (application) courseware - Programs and data used in Computer-Based Training. for Allfirst for deployment on e-Learning Network click2learn.com, inc. (Nasdaq:CLKS), the open e-Learning Network, and Allfirst Financial Inc, a regional, diversified financial The diversified financial services segment includes a range of consumer and commercially-oriented companies offering a wide variety of products and services, including various lending products (such as home equity loans and credit cards), insurance, and securities and investment services company, today announced that Allfirst has launched its first e-Learning site on click2learn.com's open e-Learning Network. click2learn.com's Custom Development Group has developed custom courseware on a variety of topics, including Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Banking and Information Security, which will be available to Allfirst employees at anytime from a standard web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . click2learn.com's award-winning e-Learning authoring software, ToolBook II Instructor(TM), is being used to create the courseware, and more courseware titles are due to be released in upcoming months. "Subscribing to the e-Learning Network has enabled Allfirst to quickly implement a cost effective delivery solution for their organizational e-Learning program," said Kevin Oakes, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of click2learn.com. "Our open e-Learning Network allows Allfirst to immediately have access to best-of-breed e-Learning content in addition to their custom content, sophisticated learning management, authoring and publishing tools, as well as additional functionality we add to the network going forward." "At Allfirst, we are very excited about the next generation of training delivery for our people," said Mary Ellen O'Donnell, Senior Vice President of Training and Organizational Development at Allfirst Financial, Inc. "Having worked very closely with click2learn.com's custom development team and Toolbook products in the development of our courseware, the e-Learning Network will provide us with a robust, constantly improving platform with which we can implement our e-Learning initiative." About Allfirst Financial Inc. Allfirst Financial Inc. is a regional, diversified financial services company headquartered in Baltimore Baltimore, city (1990 pop. 736,014), N central Md., surrounded by but politically independent of Baltimore co., on the Patapsco River estuary, an arm of Chesapeake Bay; inc. 1745. , Md., offering a full range of financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. including banking, trust, investment and insurance to retail, business and commercial customers. Its banking subsidiary, Allfirst Bank, operates over 260 bank branches and more than 575 ATMs throughout Maryland, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., northern Virginia Northern Virginia (NoVA) consists of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and the independent cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax, Manassas, and Manassas Park. and Delaware. Allfirst Financial Inc.'s assets were $18 billion as of June 30, 2000. Information about Allfirst Financial Inc. is available at www.allfirst.com. About click2learn.com, inc. click2learn.com (Nasdaq:CLKS), formerly known as Asymetrix Learning Systems, Inc., provides an open e-Learning network consisting of e-Learning content, learning management, and authoring and publishing tools. By developing a powerful and full-featured outsourced platform for e-Learning, and partnering with market-leading content publishers, click2learn.com provides customers with an Application Service Provider (ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). ) model that gives organizations instant access to a vast and constantly improving e-Learning Network. Customers can access thousands of courses and use browser-based publishing and learning management tools through a custom-configured site that looks and feels like the organization's intranet, and have access to click2learn.com's expert development group using the Rapid e-Learning Development System (ReDS) to develop custom content for distribution on the network. In addition to an outsourced solution, click2learn.com is a leader in providing internal e-Learning implementations. The click2learn.com enterprise e-Learning initiatives includes the market-leading Ingenium total learning management solution, and the acclaimed ac·claim v. ac·claimed, ac·claim·ing, ac·claims v.tr. 1. To praise enthusiastically and often publicly; applaud. See Synonyms at praise. 2. ToolBook II Instructor and Assistant authoring tools. Each solution is augmented by one of the industry's largest professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. groups, including award-winning custom content development, strategic consulting, and integration services. For more information on click2learn.com e-Learning solutions, call 800/448-6543 or 425/462-0501. Visit click2learn.com at www.click2learn.com or visit the e-Learning portal at www.click2learn.com/c2l. 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Factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements include market acceptance of internet based training and the click2learn.com learning portal, the ability to successfully implement click2learn.com virtual universities and strategic relationships with content providers and other web-based companies, the ability of those relationships to result in increased users and increased revenues and the risk factors set forth in filings The Company has made with the SEC. click2learn.com, click2learn.publisher, click2learn.author, click2learn.manager, Ingenium, ToolBook II Instructor and ToolBook II Assistant are trademarks of click2learn.com, inc. All other company and/or product names are the property of their respective owners. www.click2learn.com |
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