Articles - Winter 2011 - return to index
Business Solutions: Technology based learning and training
 Jim Lindly |
—By Jim Lindly, Director
The Lane Community College Small Business Development Center offers clients many online training and learning options. Some classes are available entirely online. More and more SBDC classes and programs use a hybrid model of learning that combines onsite and online e-learning. This allows clients to access learning as their schedules permit, and to participate in asynchronous activities such as blogs, wikis, discussion boards, or scheduling appointments with instructors.
Audio-visual conferencing is now the
norm for the state SBDC network.
The network uses a service known as
Ready Talk that allows users to share
concurrent visual information at the
participant’s desktop.
Lane and the SBDC are partners in
the Emerald Valley High performance
Enterprise Consortium.
This includes local
manufacturers and
service providers
interested in process
improvement and “LEAN” methods
that maximize
customer value while
minimizing waste. Lane
recently hosted a live
videoconference for
EVHPEC that allowed
members to connect
live with experts
in Japan.
The SBDC also uses videoconferencing to
provide business development and employee
training services in “real time” for coastal
businesses.
Online learning and training technologies are being designed into the new Lane Downtown Campus that will be built at 10th and Charnelton in Eugene. This building will have the latest education technologies and fiber connectivity. SBDC, Employee Training and eDev services will use these to better serve businesses.
Albert Einstein said, “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” How true for online training for business. The future is here!
- Small Business Development Center: www.lanesbdc.com/
