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LEARN2.COM TO PROVIDE ONLINE TRAINING FOR UP TO 16,000 LABOR DEPT. WORKERS: Award Supports Executive Order On Technology-Enhanced Training.


Learn2.com, the White Plains, N.Y., provider of online learning solutions, and partner Innovative Management and Technology Approaches Inc. (IMTAS), have been awarded a contract to provide online training to up to 16,000 US Dept. of Labor employees nationwide. Labor officials say the award reflects their efforts to comply with Executive Order 13111 ("Using Technology To Improve Training Opportunities For Federal Government Employees") signed by President Clinton on January 12, directing federal agencies to take steps to take action; to move in a matter.

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 to enhance federal employees' training opportunities through the use of technology.

DOL DOL - Display Oriented Language. Subsystem of DOCUS. Sammet 1969, p.678.  employees at all levels will have access to a co-branded Learn2University site offering courseware for soft skills, end user desktop applications, networking and Web technologies. "Our partnership with Learn2.com is a total team effort which has addressed the demand and implemented, in minimal time, a Web-based training solution to help enhance technical and non-technical skills that facilitate the Dept. of Labor's Life Long Learning Initiative," says Curtis Michel, IMTAS vice president of Operations. IMTAS is providing program management and other technology services under the contract.

The new DOL award, "combined with our previously announced agreement with Law Enforcement Online, represents Learn2.com's continuing foray into Verb 1. foray into - enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly"
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, executive vice president of Sales and Marketing at Learn2.com. "We are pleased to have been selected by the Dept. of Labor to provide their employees with advanced online learning solutions, and we believe that our interactive online training capabilities are the most effective means of educating a workforce.

Learn2University is a web-based training solution that provides users with instantaneous access to interactive, multimedia (audio, graphic animation Graphic animation is a variation of stop motion (and possibly more conceptually associated with traditional flat cel animation and paper drawing animation, but still technically qualifying as stop motion) consisting of the animation of photographs (in whole or in parts) and other  and text) courseware across the Internet without the need for hardware upgrades or time consuming download. It allows users to access learning anytime, from anywhere with minimal system requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule.  including a 28.8 modem or faster, and a 486 16MB RAM computer.

The site offers an extensive catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C.  of over 250 interactive multimedia tutorials on popular business applications such as Office 2000, 95 and 97, Windows, Microsoft Certified See certification.  courseware, programming, network training, the Internet, financial applications, soft skills and more.

IMTAS is a Washington, D.C.-based small business concern providing IT solutions and management services support.
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Publication:EDP Weekly's IT Monitor
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Date:Nov 8, 1999
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