Laragh Courseware
has released its eagerly awaited Computer Based Training
(CBT) product PC and Internet Tutor.
This is the most comprehensive e-learning course of its
kind on the market. It leads the learner through the spectrum
of hardware, software, and Web skills that everyone needs
today. Though aimed at the novice, there is also much here
for the many self-taught PC users who are still not comfortable
with technology and who do not use it optimally.
"This course synthesizes Laragh's
two streams of expertise - it presents IT concepts in
a soft skills training format," says Laragh Courseware
CEO, Tom O'Neill. "Having developed more than 250
pre-sold IT-related CBT titles and a further 50 custom
built soft-skills e-learning courses, Laragh is uniquely
positioned to provide solid IT training in a format that
is friendly and accessible to non-IT people."
In approximately 12 hours of audio-enabled
instruction, PC and Internet Tutor gives a solid
grounding in PC hardware components; input and output
devices; the operating system; applications software;
Internet services and getting connected; browsing the
Web; E-mail and newsgroup communication; e-business; and
creating Web pages.
PC and Internet
Tutor is priced to make it widely accessible. At $69
for a private user license, this two-in-one e-learning package represents
by far the best value on the market.
O'Neill believes that learner control
adds value to the CBT learning process. "Today, success
in the workplace depends on the employee's ability to
use the results of their work to meet rapidly evolving
social and organizational needs," says the head of
the fast growing, Cape Town based software company. "This
places an emphasis on creative thought and the ability
to use these tools to their full potential."
Though the course is wide ranging,
it is clearly structured, making it easy for the learner
to navigate to a module or lesson relevant to a current
task.
Laragh's e-learning CBT uses an
appealing mix of graphics, interactivity, animated simulation,
continuous evaluation, and a context-sensitive glossary
to guide learners to clearly stated module and course
objectives. Interactive multimedia allows for the seamless
communication of the needs of word-processing, spreadsheet,
database, graphics, and e-mail applications.
Being allowed to choose between
hearing the instructor's voice, reading the instruction
from the screen, or having both available simultaneously,
is another feature that makes the course accessible to
the widest audience. It caters for people's individual
learning preferences.
"Video conferencing, web publishing,
multimedia, and e-business are no longer mere possibilities,"
O'Neill points out. "They are technologies resident
in every PC and they are accessible to every PC user.
It's not enough for courseware to explain what PCs and
the Internet are. CBT courses in this arena must enable
learners to embrace these technologies with confidence
so that they can apply them productively in their professional
lives."
Written and edited to impart as
much knowledge and skill as effectively and quickly as
possible, PC and Internet Tutor proves conclusively
that the PC is far more than a word processor with web-browsing
abilities.
