Product training through eLearning offers a wonderful opportunity to enrich sales training programs with simulated product presentations and product walk-through in various selling situations. Actually eLearning also offers a comprehensive platform for Customer Service and Business Process Training.

Various industries such as Petroleum, Power Tools, Software, Financial Services, Metals & Minerals, Farms & Agriculture, etc, avail of eLearning courses for product training.

Beside Flash and HTML, authoring tools like Captivate, Articulate and Lectora are most commonly used to create product training eLearning courses.

Product Simulation

Based on product manuals, promotional literature and product images, highly interactive flash-based courses are created using product simulation. It makes learning highly effective and quick.

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Software Simulation – ‘Watch-Try-Do’

‘Watch-Try-Do’ approach is one of the most effective ways to demonstrating how a software product works. The learner gets the real time experience of how the software works and also gets the opportunity to work on the simulated environment.

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CommLab India, a veteran in developing custom eLearning courses has recently tied up with eLearning for kids, the global non-profit foundation to develop eLearning courses on various subjects for kids across the world. It will also translate and localize existing courses into a host of other languages to reach more kids. All these services will, of course, be offered free of cost.

RK Prasad and Ayesha, the top team at CommLab India met Dr. Nick van Dam, Founder and Chairman of eLearning for kids in Hyderabad to discuss various ways how CommLab can support and contribute to the wonderful work that Dr. van Dam has started. It was a very fruitful meeting of like-minded professionals who want to contribute to one of the most disadvantaged sections of our society – kids.

Left to right: Ayesha (COO, CommLab India), Dr. Nick van Dam (Founder and Chairman, eLearning for kids) and RK Prasad (CEO, CommLab India).

Some areas for immediate collaboration were, of course, eLearning courseware development, translation & localization of courses in English and re-branding CommLab’s existing courses for eLearning for kids. CommLab also volunteered to promote the foundation among the schools and teachers, especially in Hyderabad.

Work has already started in right earnest in re-branding existing courses.

About e-Learning for kids

Established in 2004, e-Learning for kids is a global nonprofit foundation dedicated to fun and free learning on the Internet for children between the ages 5 – 12, with courses in math, science, reading, health and computers. A volunteer staff consists of education and e-learning experts and business professionals from around the world committed to making a difference.

For more information, please send a mail to info@e-learningforkids.org or visit http://www.e-learningforkids.org

About CommLab India

CommLab India (www.commlabindia.com) is an end-to-end eLearning solutions company based in India. Since 2000, it has been providing state-of-the-art eLearning services to organizations across the world in the areas of Custom Courseware, Catalog Courses and Learning Technology. Some of its reputed clients are BC Hydro, George Washington University, Kawasaki and Deloitte. They are preferred vendors to more than 15 Fortune 500 companies such as Alcoa, Unilever and Pepco Holding Inc.

For more information, contact info@commlabindia.com

Knowledge is like water in a Well. If you share the water with the society people then level of the water will never decrease every day fresh water will come. In the other case if you stop using the water and not allowing others to use, then within a few months the level of water will get reduced and the still water will becomes impure and one day there will be no water in the well.

So if we don’t use our knowledge and not sharing with others then our skills level will slowly decrease and one day we don’t have any knowledge to compete with the latest and advanced technology. If you share the knowledge and transfer your work to others then you will get time and new opportunities to learn new thing and increase the level of your skills to compete with the latest and advanced technology.

I have attended the Knowledge session presented by Stephen R. Covey on January 29, 2009 and I am very impressed with the concept of “Learn by Teaching”.

At the time of my school days one of my teachers used to say

“One time of writing is better than 10 times of reading”

Same thing now I can say that

“One time of training is better than 10 times of writing i.e., 100 times of reading”

Power of Learning by Teaching a Survey Report

My Experience as a Project Manager in CommLab India:

I got opportunities to learn authoring tools and one of them is Lectora. I learnt some basic skills from the documentation and I used forums to clarify my doubts. I did not go to any institute neither took any online training.

While working on the projects, I started giving training in my organization. While training other colleagues, I learnt a lot and increased my skills. Now I became an expert in Lectora and I can develop whatever feature is required.

Initially, I believed that training can be given only to talented people who knew basic programming. But now I believe that training can be given to any one. I have become an expert in my field.

All these improvement happened only through “learn by training”.

We have other methods to learn, for example we can get learning by work experience, from institutes, or by online tutorials. But to become an expert and get command on the subject one MUST train others.

Abdul Razzaque Hussain
Project Manager

As teachers and instructional designers, we always endeavor to make things easy and engaging for the learner. We take pride in making our programs learner-centric but what about the standards we so religiously adhere to?

Have we ever considered if these standards are really jeopardizing our efforts? How far are these standards – AICC, IMS and SCORM – learner-centric? Do these standards have anything to do with learning? Are these standards really impeding learning? Are we too enamored with these standards that we lost sight of the most important entity – the learner?

Are we slowly getting afflicted with “Learning Myopia”? Instead of looking out of the window, are we looking at the mirror, so to speak? What about the lesser talked about standards like ASTD’s E-Learning Courseware Certification Standards and the standards used by Michigan Virtual University in producing specifications for, and evaluating, e-learning?

I found ASTD’s E-Learning Courseware Certification Standards not only learner-centric but also very comprehensive.

The standards are grouped into four principal categories to reflect the various elements of courseware design.

1. Interface Standards address the relationship between the learner and the courseware itself. There are five interface standards.
2. Compatibility Standards address the relationship between the courseware, the Operating system and related applications. There are four compatibility standards.
3. Production Quality Standards examine the quality of the courseware’s text, graphics, grammar, and visual presentation. There are two production quality standards.
4. Instructional Design Standards examine the relationship between the course purpose, objectives, instructional content, instructional methods, and the learner.

CommLab has been one of the earliest companies in the e-learning space to adopt these standards. There were times when these standards were the deciding factor in wining a project.

I would strongly recommend those of you who are not aware of these standards to visit www.astd.org and get more information. The detailed standards are offered for a nominal payment, which I assure you, is well worth it.

We at CommLab India would also be happy to provide more information about them.

At CommLab we all are eager to come to office because the first thing we do is play. All of us including the CEO assemble on the terrace of our office at 9.00 sharp and have a small fun activity for 20 minutes. All these activities are conducted by our employees. This activity unites us all and we are full of energy to start our day. By the end of the activity we all charged to start the day in a positive, energetic manner. It helps us clear the cobwebs of the earlier night and reach an empowered state.

Watch us in action!

Once we finish this game, we all sing a powerful incantation and affirmation in a song form – “We are the Champions”.

“We Are the Champions” is a power ballad written by Freddie Mercury, recorded and performed by Queen for their 1977 album News of the World. One of their most famous and popular songs, it has since become an anthem for sporting victories and has been often used or referenced in popular culture.

More on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_Champions

Listen to the song “We Are the Champions“

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CommLab India – We Are the Champions!