10/01/2012
Comprehensive Free Online IT Training with ALISON an option for Gaisce the President’s Award 2012
ABC IT, the comprehensive Free IT Desktop skills course, which is free to access via the ALISON free online learning portal (www.alison.com), has been accepted as an approved option for the personal skills section of the Gaisce Award.
ALISON.com, the award-winning free online learning website, and Gaisce the President’s Award have announced that the ALISON ABC IT course can be an option as part of the skills section for young people participating in the Gaisce Awards, starting January 2012. ALISON ABC IT is a hugely successful international basic IT skills interactive multimedia course, which has been studied by one million students worldwide.
The ABC IT course covers basic IT desktop skills including Touch Typing, Workstation Ergonomics and IT desktop applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, creating presentations, using databases and email. The course takes approximately 11 to 13 hours to complete for a beginner and is in line with the one hour per week for 13 weeks that it takes to complete a personal section of the Gaisce Award.
Hugh MacConville, West of Ireland co-ordinator for Gaisce the President’s Award, said: “The ALISON ABC IT option is a perfect match for the Gaisce Bronze Award. The skillset developed from studying IT in this manner online will be an asset to all our award participants who take this option in the years ahead. The fact that access to this innovative online training solution is free of charge will be greatly welcomed by students, parents and teachers alike in the times we live in. The fact that participants can study from home is another added benefit.”
"We look forward as well to working with Alison.com to develop other links so that young people who take on the Silver and Gold Awards can use the facilities that Alison.com provide," he added.
ALISON CEO and founder Mike Feerick, who was a guest speaker at the West of Ireland Gaisce Awards in May 2011, said: “The association of ALISON and the excellent national Gaisce the President’s Award is timely and exciting. People young and old today need to engage in lifelong online learning and up-skilling one’s basic IT desktop skills is the first step to take”.
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For further information, please contact:
Paula Gallagher, Press Relations, ALISON pgallagher@alison.com, or (091) 680 103.
Hugh McConville, Gaisce, hmacconville@gaisce.ie, or 01-617-1999
