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ALISON is an opportunity for every member of your workforce. Training for basic and essential workplace skills is available at any time and from anywhere via the ALISON learning platform. From ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) skills to health and safety training, ALISON provides an opportunity for any business to direct their employees to up-skill themselves.
Benefits to Employers
(i) Learning Essential Workplace Skills
Through ALISON, any employer has an extremely cost-effective and efficient way of providing skills training to their employees. All employees in the modern workplace should have a comprehensive set of ICT skills. ALISON has an excellent suite of ICT training courses; the most comprehensive of which is ABC IT covering basic concepts of computing, Microsoft Office applications, and touch-typing, a very underrated but essential modern workplace skill. The components of this course can also be studied as individual courses. Training which is mandatory for the workplace in many countries can be freely accessed via ALISON. In some countries for instance, all employers with five or more employees must provide training to their staff for Manual Handling and Desktop Ergonomics. You will find these health and safety courses on ALISON.
(ii) Return on Investment in Lifelong Training
A lifelong training habit of every employee is a valuable asset to any organisation. Regardless of the size or type of your business, training has a measurable impact on performance and the bottom line. Studies show that graduates of the ECDL/ICDL are over 12.5% more productive on a daily basis in office administration than those who have not completed this or a similar course. Employees who receive formal training can be 230% more productive than untrained colleagues who are working in the same role (source: Smith A. 2001 Return on Investment in Training: Research Readings, NCVER). Higher staff productivity increases organisational/business output. It can increase market share and improve products, services, and reputations. Up-to-date training provides not only strength to the employer but longer-term job security for every employee in the increasingly competitive global marketplace.
Why Adopt ALISON?
(i) ALISON provides constantly updated workplace skills training at a fraction of the normal commercial cost, in addition to providing convenient access to a continuous lifelong learning record.
(ii) ALISON provides an equitable way for all English-speaking workers throughout the world to access high-quality interactive multimedia training.
(iii) ALISON provides internationally recognised certification/standards-based training so that accomplishment on ALISON is recognised across the world.
(iv) For those organisations who provide limited non-strategic online training to their employees via their own Learning Management System (LMS), ALISON offers a way to cut costs by providing an alternative platform for accessing this learning. Why pay for and maintain your own expensive LMS when the training and facilities of ALISON are available for so little? Why hire the expertise to run such a platform when you don’t have to?
(v) If organisations wish to host quality basic training content on ALISON for which they own the intellectual property rights, we would be delighted to oblige once we can open up this same training to all you can earn while others learn. If your organisation owns such content and it proves popular on the ALISON platform, we would be happy to share revenue generated from its use by others.
(vi) Finally, by training your employees on ALISON, you support the mission of ALISON in making free learning available to anyone willing to learn, who has internet access. We need help to spread the word about ALISON. Please see our Volunteering Section to learn more about how you can help yourself and others by training through ALISON.
ALISON stands for Advance Learning Interactive Systems ONline.
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