NETg Wins $2.3 Million Global e-Learning Contract With Nestle; Nestle Works with IT Training Company of the Year.Business Editors NAPERVILLE Naperville (nā`pərvĭl), city (1990 pop. 85,351), Du Page co., NE Ill., on the Du Page River, in a farm area; settled 1831–32, inc. as a city 1890. It is a major office and corporate center that grew markedly in the late 20th cent. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2001 NETg, the leading e-Learning company, today announced that it has a new one-year global contract worth $2.3 million with the largest food company in the world, Nestle. After piloting the NETg e-Learning content for the past year in different Nestle companies throughout the world, Nestle decided that the plan could play an integral part in the training of more than 200,000 staff worldwide. As Nestle is in the process of enhancing and improving its internal systems to ensure maximum efficiency, it wants to ensure that its staff has the latest technology at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. to make their jobs easier. The contract includes most of the NETg library of content covering IT professional, desktop SAP, and some personal development courses. Previously the company was using classroom-based training for IT skills and decided to initially trial the e-Learning solution in a number of Nestle companies globally. Significant time and cost savings were apparent compared to classroom training. The unique structure of the courses was particularly appealing to the company. NETg courses are based on the NETg Learning Object - bite sized chunks of learning each of 5-7 minutes in length enabling staff to integrate learning very easily into their working day. NETg is the only company in the market to provide learning objects of such a small size. The instructional design Instructional design is the practice of arranging media (communication technology) and content to help learners and teachers transfer knowledge most effectively. The process consists broadly of determining the current state of learner understanding, defining the end goal of behind NETg courses, which ensures knowledge is learned and retained through simulations and constant assessment, was also very important in the decision making process. "Nestle is the largest food company in the world and training staff consistently in IT skills on such a grand scale is a real challenge," said David Small David Small may refer to:
The training will be delivered mostly on the corporate Intranet, and therefore, will be available to all staff across more than 80 countries. The system will be managed using NETg's learner management system, SkillVantage Manager. NETg, a subsidiary of Boston-based Harcourt General, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : H), is powering intelligent decisions through learning for the Global 2000. The company has a portfolio of over 1,000 courses in several languages, covering professional IT, desktop and personal development skills and serves over 4,000 customers worldwide. NETg's proven learning techniques are based on an innovative course architecture developed by NETg in the early 1990's - The NETg Learning Object (NLO NLO Next-to-Leading Order NLO Nonlinear Optics NLO Nobody Likes Onions (website) NLO National Liaison Officer NLO Naval Liaison Officer NLO National Labor Office NLO NETg Learning Object NLO No Load Operation ). The company leads the industry with a full range of e-Learning solutions incorporating 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 services and interactivity with over 75,000 learning objects for leading companies such as Daimler-Chrysler, Honeywell, Procter & Gamble and Dow (Direct OverWrite) See magneto-optic disk. Chemical. NETg's worldwide headquarters are located in Naperville, Illinois Naperville is a city in DuPage and Will counties in Illinois in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 128,358; The United States Census Bureau estimated the population in 2006 at 142,901. , USA. For more information visit NETg at www.netg.com. |
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