Project Management: Ethics and Professional Knowledge.Project Management: Ethics and Professional Knowledge, SkillSoft (877-545-5763, www.skillsoft.com), $100-$450 per user. The Project Management Institute's Project Management Professional certification Professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply certification or qualification, is a designation earned by a person to assure that he/she is qualified to perform a job or task. has created a cottage industry in training. SkillSoft courses meet continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). requirements, which are prerequisites to sit for the Certification Exams (in other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , they know this stuff). There is a project management continuum: from managers who try, or are instructed, to apply basic principles of managing vendors, project costs, schedules, and timelines for multiple projects to certified PMPs, who use issue logs, risk assessments, context matrices, GANT GANT Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumor. See there. charts, and the like. This course is valuable for both types and anyone in between. COURSE CONTENT AND DESIGN The course is well organized into three lessons covering such topics as Understanding Ethical Standards, Components for Knowledge-Based Management, and Assessing Personal Strengths and Weaknesses. I found the content held my attention and challenged me. I especially like the main menu feature of showing completion status. The pre-test and main menu listings helped me create a learning path based on my lesson pre-test scores. SkillSoft courses reflect a disciplined e-course development effort. The use of templates for interactivity and the consistent user interface result in more effective e-learning. Most users should be able to navigate the main menu buttons with ease. For learners who dislike being scored on every instructional quiz, the learner is occasionally offered an "explore mode." To their credit, SkillSoft has invested generously in expert copywriting Copywriting is the process of writing the words that promote a person, business, opinion, or idea. It may be used as plain text, as a radio or television advertisement, or in a variety of other media. of multiple problem-based learning problem-based learning Medical education An instruction strategy in which groups of students are presented with clinical problems without prior study or lectures. See Cooperative learning. scenarios. Individuals who have a propensity to be good project managers because of their attention to detail and nonsense approach to getting things done on time and on budget will appreciate the SkillSoft approach to e-learning and will probably agree with my four star rating. Those who expect e-learning to creatively entertain and offer complex branched simulations may beg to differ. REVIEWER'S RECOMMENDATION I highly recommend the Ethics and Professional Knowledge e-course to anyone interested in furthering their understanding of what it means to be a professional project manager or if pursuing a PMP See point-to-multipoint and portable media player. PMP - Portable Media Player certification. |
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