DDI Awards Click2learn $1.3 Million to Convert Landmark Leadership Curriculum for Web Delivery.Business/High-Tech Editors BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2001 Click2learn Will Also Deliver DDI's Award-winning Management Courses to Global 1000 Companies via ASP-based e-Learning Network Development Dimensions International, Inc. (DDI ddI and ddC: see AZT. ), a global provider of management training, has awarded Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS) a $1.3 million contract to convert its world-renowned leadership curriculum into robust, multimedia-enabled e-Learning courses. As part of the partnership, Click2learn will electronically deliver DDI's market-leading management training over its e-Learning Network to selected Click2learn corporate partners, DDI's own Global 1000 clients, as well as virtually any company with Internet access See how to access the Internet. . "At DDI, we firmly believe that the power of e-Learning lies not in choosing between classroom training and online training, but in skillfully skill·ful adj. 1. Possessing or exercising skill; expert. See Synonyms at proficient. 2. Characterized by, exhibiting, or requiring skill. mixing platforms to deliver knowledge in a better way. By combining instructor-led courses, self-study, electronic performance support and online learning we can create training programs that are more powerful than any single delivery method," said Pete Weaver, senior vice-president and Chief Technology Officer of DDI. "Click2learn's proven technology and processes, combined with DDI's award-winning content will provide our customers with a tremendously effective e-Learning experience, and prove that the magic of eLearning is really in the mix of delivery modes." Over the next few years, DDI plans to incorporate online learning segments into most of its management, front-line, service, and executive training courses. During the first phase of development, Click2learn and DDI analyzed an·a·lyze tr.v. an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es 1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. DDI's course offerings and prioritized 24 core courses to convert into a top-quality training series optimized for electronic delivery. To speed the development process, the web-based courses are being developed using Click2learn's Rapid e-Learning Development System (ReDS) -- an ASP-based, collaborative, and scaleable platform for web-based course development. By enabling developers to work on projects concurrently from remote locations, Click2learn's ReDS speeds the process of creating fully interactive, data-rich courses optimized for an online environment. The first series of modules will be from DDI's two leading learning systems -- Techniques for a High-Performance Workforce(SM) and Interaction Management(R): Tactics and Strategies for Effective Leadership(R). These two systems have been used to train over three million leaders worldwide and will soon be available via Click2learn's e-Learning Network. Concurrent with the development of these courses, DDI has created several methods by which learners can practice the skills learned in the web-based content. These "practice wraparound Wraparound A financing device that permits an existing loan to be refinanced and new money to be advanced at an interest rate between the rate charged on the old loan and the current market interest rate. " options will enable DDI's clients to build blended learning Blended Learning is the combination of multiple approaches to learning. Blended learning can be accomplished through the use of 'blended' virtual and physical resources. A typical example of this would be a combination of technology-based materials and face-to-face sessions used solutions that will ensure transference TRANSFERENCE, Scotch law. The name of an action by which a suit, which was pending at the time the parties died, is transferred from the deceased to his representatives, in the same condition in which it stood formerly. of the learning to the work environment. The courses are also supported by and linkable to DDI's groundbreaking electronic performance support system called OPAL opal (ō`pəl), a mineral consisting of poorly crystalline to amorphous silica, SiO2·nH2O; the water content is quite variable but usually ranges from 3% to 10%. (TM), Online Performance and Learning. OPAL provides instant access to hundreds of online job-aids that support and extend the content in the web-based courses being developed by Click2Learn. OPAL will be an option for integration in the e-Learning Networks created for DDI's clients. "Click2learn's partnership with DDI underscores the value of market-leading content being combined with award-winning eLearning technologies and expertise," 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. "Outsourced e-Learning is growing quickly in large part because of the rapid time frames required to create market-ready, quality e-Learning content. Click2learn dramatically simplifies this process by providing companies with the strategic expertise, development and delivery technologies to transform intellectual property for electronic distribution, while maintaining the quality of the learning experience itself," Oakes said. "For years, we've been noting that the growth of high-quality e-Learning content will ultimately fuel the growth of our entire industry. With the tools and partnerships we're putting together today at Click2learn, we're making sure that happens." About DDI Since 1970, DDI has helped thousands of organizations achieve superior business performance through selecting, developing and retaining extraordinary people. DDI's two major areas of expertise include: -- Helping companies find and hire better people faster. -- Building leadership capacity and capability, enabling organizations to meet their current and emerging business needs. DDI's innovative solutions, including Web-based technologies, are customized to the needs of each client by a team of 1,000 experienced associates in 70 locations around the world. For more information about DDI, visit www.ddiworld.com. About Click2learn Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS) is the leading integrated e-Learning solutions provider to Global 2000 organizations. The company provides comprehensive solutions that include content creation services and tools, integrated learning management and delivery systems, 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. , 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 , Deloitte and Touche 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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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. |
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