Asymetrix Partners with Three Emerging Companies to Distribute Learning Products via click2learn.com.BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 1999-- 77 additional titles provide a variety of business skill and personal development products to customers of leading learning portal Asymetrix Learning Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASYM), the leader in online learning solutions, today announced it will add 77 additional business skill and personal development products as a result of partnering with three emerging companies in agreements that cover distribution and joint marketing of online learning courseware Educational software. See CBT and OpenCourseWare. (application) courseware - Programs and data used in Computer-Based Training. , books and CD-ROMs. The three companies, netSyndicate, Skills Online, and Velocity Business Publishing, target busy professionals and the lifelong learner to increase personal productivity through products focused on such topics as communications skills, personal organization, and stress management. "A wide selection of professional and managerial skills courses, delivered in a variety of formats, is important to customers of click2learn.com," said Kevin Oakes, President and Chief Learning Officer of Asymetrix. "We are excited to partner with NetSyndicate, Skills Online, and Velocity Business Publishing and look forward to adding their proven courseware to click2learn.com's growing library of professional online education." "We view click2learn.com as the emerging leader in the learning portal business, and I can't think of a more prominent partner to deliver our business skills training products," said Glen Schrank, President of Skills Online, Inc. "We look forward to working with Asymetrix to migrate our content into a pure online delivered format." Each of the new partners is deepening deep·en tr. & intr.v. deep·ened, deep·en·ing, deep·ens To make or become deep or deeper. Noun 1. deepening - a process of becoming deeper and more profound their commitment to electronically delivered training products. These three emerging content companies view click2learn.com as a strategic partner that can be of assistance in that process. Initially, the offerings from the three companies include: -- 14 online delivered courses by netSyndicate -- 10 personal productivity CD ROM CD ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory by Skills Online -- 53 cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. books and .pdf files See PDF. by Velocity Business Publishing, which will allow click2learn.com customers the option of purchasing hard copy books, or instead downloading downloading - download the enhanced .pdf files, complete with audio and evaluation exercises "We're delighted to be working with Asymetrix. Their reputation for excellence, and innovation in on-line learning is unmatched, and we feel Velocity's electronic content is perfectly suited to click2learn.com environment," said Velocity Business Publishing's president, David F. Folino. "We specialize spe·cial·ize v. 1. To limit one's profession to a particular specialty or subject area for study, research, or treatment. 2. To adapt to a particular function or environment. in creating tools that managers need to excel on the job, and Asymetrix specializes in packaging and delivering that content. Together, we'll provide a complete solution for training departments worldwide." "netSyndicate is dedicated to producing high quality, time and cost-effective online learning programs," said David Carlyle, 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 netSyndicate. "We believe click2learn.com will provide us an excellent opportunity to grow our brand and our market, and we are excited to partner with Asymetrix on this new venture." About click2learn.com click2learn.com is designed to be the lifelong learning Lifelong learning is the concept that "It's never too soon or too late for learning", a philosophy that has taken root in a whole host of different organisations. Lifelong learning is attitudinal; that one can and should be open to new ideas, decisions, skills or behaviors. partner to the business professional by providing professional education and training on a variety of topics. Using the 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 to remove economic and logistical lo·gis·tic also lo·gis·ti·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to symbolic logic. 2. Of or relating to logistics. [Medieval Latin logisticus, of calculation barriers to critical learning, it allows individuals and small to medium-sized businesses to access formal training online directly through www.click2learn.com in an engaging and highly interactive format with 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. . Larger organizations can access click2learn.com using the increasingly popular 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, by seamlessly integrating a custom version of click2learn.com with their organization's intranets. Courses from these three emerging companies will complement the thousands of professional learning courses on computer, business and professional development skills now accessible directly through www.click2learn.com. These courses, and courses created with the free click2learn.publisher authoring and publishing system, will also be available through Internet portal partners such as the Go2Net network and VerticalNet network of websites, and corporate partners through their intranets and virtual universities. Additionally, a number of free courses are available currently through click2learn.com, with more constantly being added. Titled 2MinuteTutors(TM), these short tutorials cover a wide variety of topics focused on improving the skills and knowledge requirements of busy business professionals. About Asymetrix Learning Systems, Inc. Asymetrix Learning Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASYM) is a leading provider of online enterprise learning solutions that enable organizations to author, deploy and manage Internet-based training and education. Asymetrix offers a single source training solution incorporating learning management and authoring software products with professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , including custom development, strategic consulting and integration services. For more information on Asymetrix solutions, call 800/448-6543 or 425/462-0501. Asymetrix Learning Systems is located on the World Wide Web at www.asymetrix.com and the click2learn.com learning portal is located at www.click2learn.com. About netSyndicate netSyndicate offers Internet-based learning solutions for compliance, loss control and general business training and skills development. netSyndicate's flagship "Compliance and Loss Control" series features ErgoNet, an 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. learning program based on the work of renowned professional ergonomists at the UC Ergonomics ergonomics, the engineering science concerned with the physical and psychological relationship between machines and the people who use them. The ergonomicist takes an empirical approach to the study of human-machine interactions. Program. For more information email: info@netsyndicate.net About Skills Online Skills Online is dedicated to providing high quality business skills products. The company's vision is to improve the lives of individuals, who are now required to compete on a worldwide basis, by providing a new level of education and training through the effective use of multimedia technology. Contact Skills Online at info@SkillsOnline.com. About Velocity Business Publishing Velocity Business Publishing is the publisher of The Agile ag·ile adj. 1. Characterized by quickness, lightness, and ease of movement; nimble. 2. Mentally quick or alert: an agile mind. Manager Series -- your ticket to becoming more effective on the job -- and more satisfied in your career! Each title in the series covers one of the fundamental management skills you need to excel. The books are filled with ideas and techniques you can use today. Velocity's writers and editors, experts in summarizing key concepts and practical ideas in simple language, squeeze broad business topics down to essential ideas and tools to save you time. Find more information on Velocity Business Publishing at http://www.agilemanager.com. |
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