Company
Distance
Learning Solutions for Higher Education
What do Projections' e-learning solutions offer that traditional distance learning
can't? Students on the "home" campus for a course have access to faculty during office hours, while students on other campuses don't. Teaching Assistants are located on the "home" campus, and are not readily available for office hours and small-group discussion sections at the other campuses. Adding web-based interactive instruction gives students on all campuses the opportunity to have the same educational experience.
How can students benefit from e-learning?With the addition of multimedia applications to support course lectures, students have more educational resources than they do in a traditional university setting. Technology-based learning allows real-time, interactive classroom instruction via the web (using broadband, desktop video technologies) or by videoconference.
How can faculty members benefit from e-learning?Faculty will gain flexibility in scheduling classes, a method of archiving course materials, interaction with a larger student body from diverse institutions, and new methods to enhance teaching practices. Projections Company solutions offer choices for faculty. We can develop interactive course materials based on content delivered by faculty or other subject matter experts. Those who wish to develop (or maintain) their own interactive materials will find the application development environments easy to learn and use.
What other advantages might there be for a university?
Once a university embraces e-learning as one of its core means of instructional
delivery, additional possibilities become available:
- New revenue sources: local and distant high school AP students, or students at community colleges.
- More flexible scheduling: a university can offer certain courses more frequently, reducing some of the scheduling constraints on faculty and students.
- More choices: team-taught courses with faculty and students at other educational institutions are another source of enrichment and diversity.
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Corporate
ServicesA large company needs to ensure that all its managers fully understand and comply with anti-discrimination, ADA, and OSHA policies. The most effective teaching method for these sensitive subjects is one-on-one interaction in a small class setting. Enrolling thousands of managers in scores of locations, however, would be disruptive, time-consuming, and costly.
How can Projections Company
reduce costs?Our approach: start with a company-wide computer-based triage program. Have the company group all managers into those who are already implementing policies correctly and fairly (thus who need very little training); those who require training to comply with current laws and statutes, and those who even with training would likely expose the company to government sanctions or legal action. This can be accomplished quickly and inexpensively, ensuring that more expensive resources are applied only where needed. We would then work with the company's Human Resources department to develop multimedia training materials for the first two groups.
Aren't there off-the-shelf
training videos for these subjects?The potential cost -- in money, morale and good will -- of civil rights, OSHA, or ADA violations is enormous. It is unlikely that off-the-shelf videos or DVDs are tailored to a particular company's specific needs. These products also cannot accurately track and measure understanding and retention of material.
Can multimedia help?We think so. Through the deployment of portable "customer education centers" featuring DVD-based product information and tutorials, combined (where available) with high-speed on-line access, even smaller dealers can offer detailed and expert advice, information and instruction.
Are there any other benefits
to deploying multimedia sales support?Making information readily available may lead dealers to favor this firm over its competitors, since it gives them a measurable advantage in both product information and customer service. Likewise, customers may be more likely to buy the firm's products because they have tangible evidence that the firm is serious about support.
How can a small company
like Projections contribute to the success of a large multinational?We pioneered the concept of "virtual teams" tied together by sophisticated project management tools. We don't try to fit your company's needs to our capabilities. Instead, we operate globally to find providers and subcontractors who will craft your project to your precise specifications, timetables, goals, and budget.
Does the Projections
Process™
offer other benefits?Yes. In traditional multimedia production, a project may have a weak link that can break the whole chain. With the Projections Process, weak links are quickly identified and either repaired or replaced - without impacting any other area.
What about product life
cycles? The Projections Process is designed for long-term success, not just a single rollout. If you want to expand, enhance or change your application, we know that maximum flexibility is key. Our project management methodology ensures that you maintain complete control at all times: not just initially, but throughout the life of the project. You can thus improve your application with each iteration, ensuring that it fulfills your current objectives, not just what may have been designed months or years earlier. With a turnkey provider, on the other hand, you are forced to either accept his proprietary solution, or write off your investment and start from scratch elsewhere.
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e-CommerceA small family-owned hardware store in a town of 20,000 has been in business for three generations. When two national home-improvement giants opened superstores within a few miles of its location, the family thought of an imaginative way to save their business. Since direct competition would be futile, the proprietors sought a niche where the giants could not compete. When this small retailer realized that many of their customers had difficulty finding spare parts for their power tools, they transformed themselves into an e-business, offering a wide range of spare parts to customers around the world.
How can Projections Company help small businesses transform themselves?By using the Projections Method™, we can help owners leverage their experience and expertise to develop new and specialized markets. Our knowledge of multimedia techniques helps us keep our clients competitive by differentiating their goods and services and by making them available to people more easily, and cost-effectively.
How can a multimedia application
improve the sales process?
Take the hardware store as an example. Many customers may not know the exact
name of the part they want, let alone its part number or specifications. At
the online parts store, contractors and homeowners simply type in the make
and model number of a particular tool, and the store's sophisticated multimedia
database offers parts lists, drawings, instructions, prices, and even brief
"how-to" videos that show how to install replacement parts. The
store is open for business 24/7, inventory and other fixed costs are reduced.The
home-improvement giants, whom thhe small hardware store once feared would
drive them out of business, are now among their best customers.
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