ALISON welcomes the focus on online skills training
brought by the European e-Skills Week programme as it announces it has
registered its 100,000th registration in the United Kingdom – all at no expense to the public
or the UK
government!
Since launching in 2007, ALISON
has been offering a broad range of free online interactive multimedia skills
training courses and tests across the UK with a special emphasis on IT
literacy training. The ALISON model
provides students with free high quality online learning courseware and grants free
access for teachers and tutors to a Learning Management System through ALISON
Manager. This service allows students to learn at their own pace and in
their own environment and the soaring numbers of learners is testament to the
popularity of this mode of learning.
About E-Skills Week
European e-Skills Week
highlights the growing demand for skilled ICT users and professionals to drive
a competitive and innovative Europe
as the knowledge economy develops and evolves. The campaign seeks to inform
students, young professionals and SMEs about the vast range of opportunities
that ICT-related jobs present across the European Union.
About ALISON
ALISON provides free online
learning via interactive multimedia for basic workplace skills. With registered
learners in every country and territory worldwide, ALISON free learning
includes IT Skills, Health and Safety, Languages, Psychometric tests and
Financial and Health Literacy. ALISON offers premium services such as content
hosting, content development and bespoke Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) training programmes among other services to corporations, academic
institutions and government agencies. Headquartered in Galway,
Ireland, ALISON is a
social-enterprise with international offices in Morristown,
New Jersey, USA
and London, UK.
Cited in a Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills (DIUS) report
on informal adult learning commissioned by Secretary of State John Denham and
published in 2008, ALISON is featured as a “new technology that is opening up
the world of knowledge and offering new, flexible and exciting ways to learn”
(Innovation, Universities & Skills (2008), Informal Adult Learning –
Shaping the Way Ahead, page 26, London: DIUS Publications).
ALISON stands for Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online.
For further
information please contact:
Kevin O’Malley
ALISON
E-mail: komalley@alison.com
Contact: +353 (0) 91 680051
