Advantages
Integrating our courses into your training or professional development programme provides advantages for your institution, for your teachers and your staff/students.
Advantages for your institution
Increase professional knowledge and expertise
In an increasingly competitive environment, our courses provide your staff and students with access to the latest professional knowledge and expertise. Our aim is to help your staff and students develop professionally and fulfill their potential.
Provide cost efficient training
Institutions save money using our courses because they cost less than teaching equivalent numbers of staff/students by running workshops or by building similar elearning courses in-house. Online courses also save considerable amounts of administrative time and effort compared to alternative approaches.
Provide training opportunities not possible via other means
You may not have in-house experts available to teach the skills you feel your staff and students need. Alternatively, your staff and students may not be able to attend the workshops you do provide. By using our courses all your staff and students will gain access to the knowledge of experts who are world class in their fields.
Conduct easy compliance checks
Using your VLE (or LMS) system, such as Blackboard, WebCT, teachers can track a student's progress through the material in a rigorous and more structured way than in workshops. Regular reviews and quizzes can demonstrate levels of comprehension of key concepts, whilst monitoring online discussion rooms can demonstrate which students are actively contributing to debate.
Advantages for teachers and trainers
Reach more people
As a teacher or trainer, you can use our courses to reach far more people than alternatives such as face-to-face workshops and seminars.
Whereas teaching a workshop, or seminar can typically help 25 students at a time, the online course opens up audiences that can run into the thousands.
Enhance your workshops and seminars
Our courses can also be used to help you increase the educational outcomes of your workshops and seminars.
For example, by having students learn the basic concepts online BEFORE the workshop, you can concentrate on advanced-level concepts or applied topics during the session itself. You could even, reduce the time for each individual workshop allowing you to provide more of them.
Classroom discussions also tend to be more effective when students come prepared with a grasp of the basic concepts. Post course evaluation also shows that student and teacher motivation is significantly higher when our online courses are used in conjunction with classroom teaching.
Advantages for staff and students
Training at the time and place need arises
The key advantage in using our courses is for your staff and students. Using our courses they can access high quality training...
....when and where they need it
Thousands of individuals regularly miss training because they cannot attend workshops. Either because they are part-time, distance-based, or because workshops do not deliver training when it is really needed.
Using our courses, they can access training 24 hours a day/365 days a year wherever they are - at home, at their desk, in their halls of residence, at the library, in the laboratory or research hospital or in the field. If they have a computer, an internet connection and their login details, then they can access the Epigeum courses.
This means your staff and students can
- focus on their work, study, research and teaching by getting rapid acces to the training they need
- access the material if they cannot attend face-to-face workshops because they are part-time or distance students
- improve their grades – evidence is growing that students who do online courses as well as classroom-based courses achieve the highest marks.
Your students can also refresh their learning by re-doing a course. The courses will be available to your students for as long as the institution has a licence and they are enrolled as a student or member of the academic staff.
