Free Testing and Self-Certification now Available for ALISON Courses!
ALISON provides courseware and training within a variety of subject areas; from basic IT-skills to HIV/AIDS awareness. Many of our courses are now complemented by ALISON Certification, available to all ALISONIANS who have fully completed a course, while achieving an 80% grade average in tests.
Just as all of our training has been provided for free since our launch, our new testing and certification system is also provided completely free to our learners. Certificates are automatically made available by ALISON upon successful course and test completion, so effectively, ALISONIANS have the power to self-certify their learning, and they can do so without any cost, except for the time needed to study.
ALISON is creating a new era for online learning, where the barriers to accessing high-quality learning material are removed. Anyone who has the motivation and determination to improve their education and skills can do so at any time.
In the months ahead, ALISON will launch its “ALISON Flash Test” service. Flash testing will allow any organization anywhere to test any ALISON certification holder. Put simply, an ALISON Flash Test is a short quiz of randomly generated course-specific questions that test the knowledge and skill level of the certification holder. This testing procedure can validate at any time whether an ALISON certificate holder possesses the relevant knowledge claimed or not. If the learner has gained that knowledge and claimed a certificate, they should have no issue with taking an ALISON Flash Test to validate their credentials. After all, the learner could not have become certified without an 80% grade average in their course of study. If the learner does not achieve the expected standard in the Flash Test, given some consideration to the time that has passed since their studies were completed, then questions can be asked about whether they actually obtained the certification fairly.
The ALISON Flash Test system is possible as a result of the ‘always-on’ nature of the Internet. Flash testing eliminates the need to an extent to presuppose knowledge about a subject simply because an individual claims to have studied the material in school, college or in a previous job. After all, what is of interest to an employer is what you will know tomorrow when you start work there – not what you learned twenty years before and may have largely forgotten about in the meantime!
To view our testing procedure, we invite you to study one of our courses such as ABC IT or our HIV/AIDS awareness course. When you complete all topics of a course and answer questions with 80% accuracy, you will be directed to a page where you can save a copy of your certificate. Try it yourself, and when you are satisfied with how well it works, introduce ALISON and certification to your school, college or workplace!
Spread the word: A new era of free online training and free testing has arrived!
Click here to read a summary of how to get certified on ALISON.
