During the past few years the Canadian government has been providing less and less financial aid within the higher education sector. In order for Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) to make up for the short fall there has been a major focus to build up the earned revenue business with an emphasis on the corporate world both domestically and internationally. At SAIT a tailored program for corporate clients has been a primary selling point. Due to the fact that the earned revenue business at SAIT has more flexibility with their noncredit course offerings, there are more opportunities for a corporate client and new courses.
In the case of our Australian client a tailored Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) certificate program needs be created …show more content…
We know that the learners in Australia are located in remote areas with unstable Internet connection and where bandwidth is limited. The technology agreed upon that will be used for the delivery of the program must be a format that provides the learner with uninterrupted access.
For this program the corporate client would like to house both the knowledge training as well as the competency training in one platform so that the client, who has various locations allover Australia, can access the learner’s progress at any time. As Veletsianos describes, a personal learning environment (PLE) is a tool used by a learner so that they are able to establish their own learning processes. The PLE also acts as a representation to illustrate events and the environment of a modern online learner (2010, p. 179). The agreed upon platform allows the learner to progress at their own rate and organize their learning how it best fits the learner individually within the competency based platform. The competency based platform provides all the tools the leaner will need with respect to curriculum and training. It also offers contact with tutors at SAIT and many other online support tools within the customized toolbar. Although the access to this platform is limited to each client and institution it has the ability to be customized for the client in order to access outside …show more content…
TRACCESS offers the ability to house the curriculum, assignments and final exams, as well as housing the mapped task competencies in each level. TRACCESS has the ability to allow a business unit structure for each separate facility in order to support the hierarchical structure of supervisors in order to provide a management of the learners and reporting features. The corporate supervisor will be able to log in and help each learner on location as well as perform the task competency in the field, marking a pass or fail on the task competency
In the case of our Australian client a tailored Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) certificate program needs be created …show more content…
We know that the learners in Australia are located in remote areas with unstable Internet connection and where bandwidth is limited. The technology agreed upon that will be used for the delivery of the program must be a format that provides the learner with uninterrupted access.
For this program the corporate client would like to house both the knowledge training as well as the competency training in one platform so that the client, who has various locations allover Australia, can access the learner’s progress at any time. As Veletsianos describes, a personal learning environment (PLE) is a tool used by a learner so that they are able to establish their own learning processes. The PLE also acts as a representation to illustrate events and the environment of a modern online learner (2010, p. 179). The agreed upon platform allows the learner to progress at their own rate and organize their learning how it best fits the learner individually within the competency based platform. The competency based platform provides all the tools the leaner will need with respect to curriculum and training. It also offers contact with tutors at SAIT and many other online support tools within the customized toolbar. Although the access to this platform is limited to each client and institution it has the ability to be customized for the client in order to access outside …show more content…
TRACCESS offers the ability to house the curriculum, assignments and final exams, as well as housing the mapped task competencies in each level. TRACCESS has the ability to allow a business unit structure for each separate facility in order to support the hierarchical structure of supervisors in order to provide a management of the learners and reporting features. The corporate supervisor will be able to log in and help each learner on location as well as perform the task competency in the field, marking a pass or fail on the task competency