My Five Favorite E-Learning Resources

Just last week, I was asked for a list of the top blogs/learning resources that I follow/frequent. Here is a list of the 5 sites that I have found helpful and full of great information. I subscribe to these via RSS which will deliver updates directly to Outlook and my phone.

Here is my list:

• eLearning 3.0 blog - http://www.elearning30.com/


• eLearning Learning - http://www.elearninglearning.com/


• ELearning Weekly - http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/


• Corporate ELearning Strategies and Development - http://elearndev.blogspot.com/


• Learning, Education, and Training Systems Interoperability - https://letsi.org/
  

What are some of your favorite eLearning or training sites? Drop me an email or comment and let me know what I'm missing out on!

Asbestos Awareness Updated

In our continuing effort to provide our customers with relevant and accurate training material, we've recently updated our Asbestos Awareness DVD and CBT products. If you have purchased a DVD (or our complete EHS DVD Set), we've just ordered new copies to be sent free of charge.

If you previously purchased an Asbestos Awareness DVD, please replace it with the newly updated version you'll receive soon. If you purchased an EHS DVD Set, please use the newly updated DVD in place of the Asbestos Awareness module on Disk 1.

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Changes to the asbestos course include updates to regulatory information, clarified legislation history, improved graphics and updated 3D renders.

Convergence Training Visits Southeast

Convergence Training will be meeting with prospective and current pulp and paper clients in a weeklong trip to the Southeast. We will be traveling through Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama.

If you would like to schedule a meeting with a Convergence representative in your area, please call Roman Battan at 1-888-634-7346 x241 or email us at support@thinkconverence.com.

We look forward to our trip and meeting with everyone!

Message from Randy Kohltfarber, Director of Product Development

To our valued customers and subscribers,

In December of 2008 Convergence Training entered the retail safety video and CBT (computer-based training) market with a single goal: to raise awareness of the quality, value, and contemporary graphic styling of our product line. Part of our approach to reach that goal involved taking our products directly to consumers via our e-commerce site. We felt that offering our products and excellent customer service for less than half the price of our nearest competitor was an excellent way to introduce ourselves and our products to the industry. The response has been overwhelming and we very much appreciate each and everyone who has purchased our products.

Due to the success of our product line and increasing requests from third parties to resell our courseware, we now feel the need to bring our product pricing more in-line with industry standards. Rest assured, our products will continue to have the highest quality, most contemporary feel, and lowest prices available on the market. Additionally, we feel this move will allow us to accelerate the growth of our content library and, as a result, you will start seeing many new Convergence Training titles available in our online store (and available through third party resellers) within the next few months.

Because we appreciate you as a customer and want to thank you for your interest in our products, we felt it was important to provide advance notice of our plans to increase our pricing structure. So, for the next couple of weeks, you will still be able to purchase our products at current prices. However, effective June 22nd we will post a new pricing structure to our online store located at http://shop.thinkconvergence.com.

It is our goal to revolutionize the traditional safety training video experience. We believe that high quality videos with state of the art graphics can be made available at affordable prices and we are looking forward to leading the way in that effort. If you have any concerns or would simply like to chat about our upcoming plans, please feel free to contact me directly at, 1.888.634.7346 x216.

Thank you again for your interest in and appreciation for our work. We look forward to continuing to serve you in the future!

Best regards,

Randy Kohltfarber
Director of Product Development
360.834.0991 x216
1.888.634.7346 x216 - Toll Free
sales@thinkconvergence.com
support@thinkconvergence.com

416 NE Dallas Street
Camas, WA 98607
United States

Printable Tests in PDF Format (from XPS)

Recently we’ve been getting more and more great feedback from our customers. We love to get feedback because it helps us develop better products and services for you, our customers.

Some customers have had trouble recently using our printable tests and answer guides. Currently, they are in XPS format which is an open and trustworthy format most useful for Microsoft Office 2007 users. Internet Explorer can view XPS documents, and there is even a free XPS Viewer software. Despite those viewing options, some of our customers don’t want to download additional software and are having trouble using the XPS files. To help those customers out, we have spent the time to upgrade our documents to PDF.

Now, all the tests, answer guides, and certificates for our EHS and MSHA DVD courses are available in PDF format. We have also added a name and date field for the tests. The new documents will be available online soon, but if you need them now, feel free to send us an email or give us a call and we can get them to you right away.

Convergence Blog is Back from Vacation

I've just returned from a completely disconnected vacation outside of Moyie Springs, ID. I had no cell phone reception, no internet, and no email - it was a wonderful break but I'm back and realizing that I've missed a couple of blog posts. I'll be back on top of things and posting regularly again from here out.

Upcoming events include launching our Pay-Per-View training, launching our reseller programs, launching our commercial web-based training platform, additions of new courses to our library, and updates to some of our courses such as Asbestos Awareness.

Thanks for staying tuned in!