How to Choose a Computer Based Training Solution

A computer based training solution offers substantial advantages over classroom-based training in filling an organization's varied needs for employee instruction. A computer based training solution can cost significantly less per student-hour than classroom training, fits more flexibly within busy work weeks, and ensures consistent instruction across even the largest and most geographically dispersed enterprises. The challenge faced by training departments is to find just the right computer based training solution for their organization.

Computer Based Training Solution Criteria

When evaluating online employee training solutions and vendors, criteria such as these can help guide your decision:

• Content reliability and design. Training based on obsolete or poorly designed content can do more harm than good. Does the vendor have a proven record of delivering accurate and well-designed online training content?
• Breadth of content offering. If your organization is like most and has a wide range of training needs, filling all those needs through the same vendor can give your employees the benefit of design and interface consistency across computer based training modules.
• Intelligent bundling. The sheer amount of computer based training content can be overwhelming. Look for a vendor that offers logical content packages tailored toward your various training needs.
• Customizability. Is the provider willing to customize its computer based training solution for your particular organization—or provide you with tools for your own customizations?
• Ease of integration. How easy or how hard will it be to integrate the vendor's computer based training solution into your existing training infrastructure?
• Customer service. Does the vendor have a track record of backing up its online training solution with high-quality customer service?

SkillSoft's Industry-Leading Computer Based Training Solution

Excellence across a wide range of computer based training solution criteria has established SkillSoft as a respected industry leader:

• SkillSoft's e learning software is relied on by more than 3,000 businesses, government agencies, and educational institutions, with over 10 million end users. Its consistency in delivering current, well-designed training content has been recognized by the leading trade publication, Elearning! magazine, which awarded SkillSoft for both Best IT Content and Best Soft Skills Content in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
• SkillSoft offers a comprehensive catalog of online courseware in subject areas such as IT skills, desktop computer skills, business skills, and regulatory compliance. SkillSoft's line of proven e-learning resources also includes instructor-led virtual classroom training and searchable online reference collections.
• SkillSoft provides blended computer based training solutions tailored toward specific organizational needs such as IT certification, leadership development, or project management training.
• SkillSoft can develop customized content for your organization, or provide you with tools that enable you to create your own customizations.
• SkillSoft's computer based training resources can be run on our SkillPort LMS, or SkillSoft can assist you with integrating content into third-party training management systems.
• SkillSoft's top-flight customer services, combined with its reliable and effective computer based training products, have earned it the number-one ranking in customer satisfaction in market surveys for the past three years in a row.

To learn more about SkillSoft's leading computer based training solution, including its courseware catalog, its online reference collections, and its virtual classroom solution, please visit the SkillSoft home page now.