Century 21 Real Estate Corporation Selects Click2learn to Manage Training Programs for 100,000 Real Estate Agents and Brokers.Business/High Tech Editors BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2001 Through Ingenium, CENTURY 21(R) System Will Manage Skills Acquired Via Online Courses, Virtual Classrooms and Traditional Classroom Training Century 21 Real Estate Corporation, franchisor of the largest residential real estate sales organization in the world, has selected Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS) to provide a new learning and program management infrastructure to foster professional development of more than 100,000 real estate professionals worldwide. Click2learn's Corporate Solutions Group will provide Ingenium, the leading skills and competency-based learning management system, to Century 21 Real Estate Corporation as a scaleable, robust platform from which to deliver all methods of learning. This will provide a single point of management for all the company's real estate training programs -- including instructor-led classes, Centra's (Nasdaq:CTRA CTRA Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association CTRA College Terrace Residents' Association CTRA Canadian Telecommunications Resellers Alliance CTRA Committee To Restore America ) virtual classroom technology, as well as personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. online learning content and courses. Click2learn's solution enables CENTURY 21(R)System members to choose courses, track their progress, and select specialized learning paths. Using Ingenium, managers can analyze an employee's skills, identify gaps, and assign specific courses, and certify the agent's understanding of those capabilities required for career advancement. "The CENTURY 21 Learning System(SM) takes our professional development program to an entirely new level, enabling us to develop our agents' and brokers' skills in less time and at less cost, while at the same time improving the effectiveness of our learning initiatives. Clearly, the program will be instrumental to our successful growth," said George Selix, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer for Century 21 Real Estate Corporation. "Click2learn's learning management architecture provides us with a backbone for managing all our learning methods -- from traditional classes, to virtual classrooms, to online courses. At the same time, we gain important new abilities to make training more powerful, by customizing learning for individuals and enlisting our employees and managers in the professional development process." "This learning initiative is a prime example of how e-Learning can be leveraged with a widely dispersed dis·perse v. dis·persed, dis·pers·ing, dis·pers·es v.tr. 1. a. To drive off or scatter in different directions: The police dispersed the crowd. b. audience with limited time. With Click2learn's Ingenium, Century 21 Real Estate Corporation will be able to significantly improve on their training system by integrating online content, virtual classrooms, and traditional instructor-led training. At the same time, they'll reduce costs, improving the learning experience and better track results," 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. "Ultimately, we are enabling the company to manage their knowledge base as they would any other critical business asset. With this new initiative, Century 21 Real Estate Corporation is making knowledge a tangible asset Tangible Asset An asset that has a physical form such as machinery, buildings and land. Notes: This is the opposite of an intangible asset such as a patent or trademark. Whether an asset is tangible or intangible isn't inherently good or bad. ." About Century 21 Century 21 Real Estate Corporation (www.century21.com) is the franchisor of the world's largest residential real estate sales organization, with over 6,300 independently owned and operated franchised broker offices in more than 28 countries and territories worldwide. Century 21 Real Estate Corporation is a subsidiary of Cendant Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CD). About Click2learn Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS) is the leading integrated e-Learning solutions provider to Global 2000 organizations. The company provides a comprehensive solution that includes learning management and delivery systems, content creation services and tools, and e-Learning design and delivery expertise to improve workforce performance and commercialize intellectual property. Click2learn is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington Bellevue is a rapidly growing city in King County, Washington, U.S., across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle,[1] it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. , with offices in other U.S. cities, Europe and Japan. The company's customers represent a wide variety of industries, and include Microsoft, Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments is a group of privately held companies in the financial services industry. It is made up by two independent but closely cooperating companies, Fidelity Management and Research Corporation (FMR Co. , Lucent Technologies, Wells Fargo Wells Fargo armored carriers of bullion. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1147] See : Protectiveness Wells Fargo company that handled express service to western states; often robbed. [Am. Hist. , Morningstar, American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the , ADC Telecommunications ADC Telecommunications (NASDAQ: ADCT) is a communications company located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, a southwest suburb of Minneapolis. History In 1935, Ralph Allison founded ADC Telecommunications in the basement of his south Minneapolis home, inventing ADC's very , General Motors, and GE. For more information about Click2learn's e-Learning solutions, call 800/448-6543 or 425/462-0501 or visit www.click2learn.com. |
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