Training Opportunities

ElementK  Membership

Web Site:  http://www.elementk.com

Purpose:  You can boost your computing IQ, learn skills to advance your career, and improve your chances for success by using ElementK, an online community that teaches consumers how to use their computers more productively and in ways that improve the quality of their lives. Our students receive training in the hottest topics in the computing and non-computing industry today.

Offerings:  Types of Courses and how they are supplied.

Instructor-Led Courses

Instructor-Led Classes, led by industry experts, pertain to specific computing and non-computing related topics, and generally run for 4 to 8 weeks. Each week your instructor posts the lecture and assignment to the message board. You log in anytime during the week to read them, post questions to the instructor, or discuss coursework with other students. You also have the option of participating in:

Office hour chats with instructors and other students, and Lounges for discussion groups, tips and various resources.

Instructor-Led Workshops, like full-length instructor-led classes, are led by industry experts and taught online using a message board. Workshops, however, focus on a specific skill in one or two concentrated weeks. There is a workshop "home page" where the central information about the workshop is gathered. The actual lessons and assignments are linked from this page and are outside the message boards. Students are sent into the message boards at the end of a lesson for interaction. No books or other materials are generally required for workshops. If a workshop does require a book, the requirements will be displayed when you register for the workshop.

Self-Study Courses

Simulations give you hands-on, interactive training as if you were actually in the real desktop application. There is no instructor or message board. Easy navigation tools let you control the pace of your learning experience by repeating a particular page as often as you choose, and moving ahead only when you're ready. If you perform a hands-on task incorrectly, you'll be prompted to try the task again, or let the task be done for you.

Seminars are a combination of audio and video presentations, but the majority of the content in each seminar is supplied via audio. Each seminar is approximately 10 to 15 minutes in length. Understanding that training needs vary, we've created an Executive Series and a Technical Series to meet those needs.

Tutorials provide a mix of conceptual and procedural learning through online reading and interactivity. Our lessons begin with the "big picture" by introducing a concept through background information. We then present details and procedures in small, easy-to-understand segments, with a mix of interactive components.

Membership:  We have one membership to use to evaluate the programs ElementK offers. If we find that we need more memberships, we will buy them accordingly.

Training Materials

Alltech International, Inc. owns many training books and video/audio tapes. Dan Krevere would like to make these available to you on a "loan" basis. As you are aware, you can boost your computing IQ, learn skills to advance your career, and improve your chances for success by using training materials. By improving these areas, you will notice more productivity and better quality of life overall. Many items we have will be familiar to you by name. We have technical training as well as self-improvement training materials. You can coordinate the borrowing of these materials with our Employee Services Manager upon being hired.

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