Corporate and education organizations realize they can achieve significant returns, from even the most modest investments in e-learning techniques. Such a direction allows them increased capability for disseminating knowledge, both in-depth and across trainee profiles, whilst reducing costs.

Examples of e-learning systems deployments delivered by Centaurin are categorized below into three main groupings:

1. User Paced:
   
   User-paced courses depend least on student/teacher interaction and are the most suitable for e-learning replacement, as they bring reductions in training expenditures while preserving the learning potential of the ongoing subject matter. An introduction to Microsoft Excel would be a good example of a User-Paced course. These courses tend to be the kind who's success can be assessed by completion or retention testing, and can often be replaced by web base conferencing tools such as PlaceWare or WebEx. One example is a pharmaceutical company that achieved  positive returns from its e-learning investment by replacing classroom based safety certification training with e-learning. Eliminating instructor and student training courses alone produced a positive ROI.
    

2. Limited Interaction:
   
   In this category e-learning incorporates a greater reliance on student/teacher contact and has a more direct influence on the employee/student's performance. Developing an e-learning solution for such content is likely to cost more, although the payoff could be exponentially larger as well. Centaurin, works with it's clients to help them carefully weigh benefits (reducing travel expenses, increased global distribution etc.) against the cost of delivering content and infrastructure.
   
   We find that most courses that mimic the traditional learning environment fall into this category.
    

3. High Interaction:
   
   High interaction content is fine-tuned to the specific needs of the learner and involves a high degree of student/teacher interaction and personal evaluation of progress. The ROI opportunity for High Interaction courses is in using technology such as simulations and agents to surpass to richness of the classroom experience to impact productivity and other second tier benefits while reducing delivered costs.
   
   IBM, for example, used to organize a five day event to train more than 5,000 managers in IBM culture strategy. But as managers' roles became more complex, IBM realized that he needed an ongoing training process rather than a quick training session. To meet these challenges, IBM implemented Basic Blue for Managers, which combines virtual collaborative tools, interactive online simulators and web based learning infrastructure with classroom instruction. IBM surpassed the
   efficiency of its current training environment using a solution that incorporated five times as much content over twelve months, and saw an ROI of 2,284 percent.
    

Centaurin's Methodology for Delivering E-Learning Infrastructures is based on the company's overall service methodology for delivering comprehensive solutions:

• We define objectives prior to deployment; we meticulously determine customer goals and the steps needed to meet those goals prior to initiating dialogue with technology vendors and direct our developers as well as our Data Entry personnel.

• We follow rapid deployment timelines, assisted by our use of open platform that also facilitate scalability and ease of configuration addressing future needs.

• We plan and deliver strategies for user adoption. Training our clients in the new technologies helps them achieve rapid returns.
   

Successful outsource partnerships require teams that work seamlessly towards a common goal. From top management involvement to cultural synchronization, our people go that extra mile to ensure successful results.

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